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

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: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-05 — COMMITTED TO RULES
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-03-27
REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE
referral-committee
2026-04-28
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT
referral-committee
2026-05-19
1ST REPORT CAL.1248
2026-05-20
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-21
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-06-05
COMMITTED TO RULES
referral-committee

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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 9135
Companion bill: A 7552

Official source

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

Attribution

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