A 847: Requires each public body to live stream and post video recordings of all open meetings and public hearings; requires each public body to post such recordings for a period of not less than five years.

  
  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 Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 104 of the public officers law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows: 3 5-a. Public bodies shall be required, to the extent practicable, to 4 stream all open meetings and public hearings on its website in real- 5 time. Each public body shall post video recordings of all such open 6 meetings and public hearings on its website within five business days of 7 the meeting or hearing and shall maintain such recordings for a period 8 of not less than five years. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 10 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