A 1590: Allows members of a public body who cannot physically attend a meeting due to a disability to be counted as present for quorum purposes at meetings attended remotely; makes provisions of law relating to permitting videoconferencing and remote participation in public meetings under certain circumstances permanent.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1590 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to quorum require- ments for meetings conducted remotely The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 103-a of the public officers law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any member who has a 4 disability as defined in section two hundred ninety-two of the executive 5 law that renders such member unable to be physically present at any 6 meeting location may be considered present for purposes of fulfilling 7 the quorum requirement for the public body at meetings conducted through 8 videoconferencing, provided the applicable criteria in subdivision two 9 of this section are otherwise met. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend- 11 ments to section 103-a of the public officers law made by section one of 12 this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be deemed 13 repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04677-01-5