What's happening
This bill requires all Board of Regents meetings to be live webcast and archived online for at least two years, excluding executive sessions.
Why it matters
Expands transparency and accountability. By mandating live webcasts and online archives for nearly all Board of Regents meetings—including committees and subcommittees—this legislation makes it easier for the public, parents, and educators to monitor state education policy decisions.
Improves public access and participation. Requiring advance notice and easy online availability of meeting streams helps ensure that people statewide, regardless of location or ability to travel, can follow educational governance in real time or watch later.
Covers a broad range of decision-making bodies. The inclusion of committees, subcommittees, and (where possible) task forces means that not just full board meetings but also many smaller, influential discussions will be more accessible, potentially shedding light on early-stage policy debates and recommendations.
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Webcast Regents Meetings Live
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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3512
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GALEF, OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to providing a live webcast for meetings of the board of regents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 204-a to read as follows:
§ 204-a. Webcasting meetings. 1. The entirety of each meeting of the regents shall be live webcast and be made available to the public on the department's website prior to the start of each meeting, and archived on the department's website, for a period of no less than two years, within twenty-four hours of the adjournment of the last meeting. The department shall provide notice to the public, via the department's website, of the availability of the live webcast of such meeting. The requirement to live webcast the entirety of each meeting shall not include executive sessions.
2. For the purposes of this section the term "meeting" shall include any committee, subcommittee, and to the extent practicable, task force or subgroup of the regents.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00316-01-9
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