Bill Commons

NY S 9603

in committee

Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum level of training on the state's open meetings law and freedom of information law

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did NY S 9603 pass?

Not yet. NY S 9603 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-06-05): COMMITTED TO RULES

What is NY S 9603 about?

Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum of two hours of training, with one hour on the state's open meetings law and one hour on freedom of information law; requires certain local, city, county, town and village public body members to complete such training as well.

Who sponsors NY S 9603?

Shelley Mayer is the primary sponsor of NY S 9603.

Description

Requires members of a public body to complete a minimum of two hours of training, with one hour on the state's open meetings law and one hour on freedom of information law; requires certain local, city, county, town and village public body members to complete such training as well.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-06-05 — COMMITTED TO RULES
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Shelley Mayerprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-06-05

    COMMITTED TO RULES

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-05-21

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  3. 2026-05-20

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  4. 2026-05-19

    1ST REPORT CAL.1248

  5. 2026-04-28

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

    referral-committee

  6. 2026-03-27

    REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Ethics And Internal Governance Vote

    2026-04-28 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Jeremy Cooney: yes
    • Andrew Gounardes: yes
    • Shelley Mayer: yes
    • Anthony H. Palumbo: yes
    • Steve Rhoads: yes
    • Toby Ann Stavisky: yes
    • Andrew J. Lanza: yes

  • Local Government Vote

    2026-05-19 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • April Baskin: yes
    • Samra Brouk: yes
    • Patricia Fahy: yes
    • Monica Martinez: yes
    • Robert Rolison: yes
    • James Skoufis: yes
    • Alexis Weik: yes

Related bills

  • Prior session: A 9135not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 7552

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S9603?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=NY&identifier=S 9603. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.