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A847Assembly2025-2026 SessionSame asS6852

Stream All Public Meetings

Official title

“Requires each public body to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings”

Sponsor Amy PaulinAD-88+3 co-sponsors
Status
Stricken
Impact
7/10
Significant
Passage
16%

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Governmental Operations

What's happening

This bill requires all New York public bodies to livestream open meetings and hearings and post recordings online for five years.

Why it matters

  1. Increases government transparency and accountability. by making it easier for the public to watch and review the actions of public bodies, including local boards, councils, and commissions, which are often where important decisions are made.

  2. Gives citizens more equitable access to government proceedings. , especially people who cannot attend in person due to work, disability, caregiving, or geographic distance, thereby broadening civic participation.

  3. Creates a historical video record of public decision-making. that can be referenced for at least five years, allowing journalists, researchers, and the public to verify what was discussed or decided at meetings.

  4. Places new logistical and technical requirements on public bodies. , which could result in upfront costs and necessitate training or investment in technology, especially for smaller local governments or committees less familiar with livestreaming.

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Stream All Public Meetings

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Amy Paulin

Assembly Member · Assembly District 88

Chair, Health

History

  1. Enacting clause stricken
  2. Referred to governmental operations

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S6852Senate

Stream All Public Meetings

In Senate Committee · Investigations And Government Operations · Sponsor Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.

Impact 7 · Significant1% to pass

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

847

2025-2026 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)

January 8, 2025

Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring all public bodies to live stream open meetings and public hearings and make the recordings of such meetings and hearings available on the webpage of the public body

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows:

5-a. Public bodies shall be required, to the extent practicable, to stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in realtime. Each public body shall post video recordings of all such open meetings and public hearings on its website within five business days of the meeting or hearing and shall maintain such recordings for a period of not less than five years.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD03249-01-5

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