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NY S 6599

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Permits assessment of certain fees and costs upon wrongful denial of access to records under the freedom of information law

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Permits assessment of certain fees and costs upon wrongful denial of access to records under the freedom of information law when either the person has substantially prevailed, or if the agency failed to respond within the statutory time.

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

  • Robert Jacksonprimary
  • Brad Hoylman-Sigalcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-18

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-05-28

    1ST REPORT CAL.1443

  3. 2025-05-29

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  4. 2025-06-04

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2025-06-13

    COMMITTED TO RULES

    referral-committee

  6. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    referral-committee

  7. 2026-03-10

    1ST REPORT CAL.531

  8. 2026-03-11

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  9. 2026-03-12

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  10. 2026-06-05

    COMMITTED TO RULES

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Investigations And Government Operations Vote

    2025-05-28 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Siela Bynoe: yes
    • Cordell Cleare: yes
    • Brad Hoylman-Sigal: yes
    • Rachel May: yes
    • James Skoufis: yes
    • Stephen T. Chan: yes
    • Thomas F. O'Mara: yes

  • Investigations And Government Operations Vote

    2026-03-10 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Erik Bottcher: yes
    • Siela Bynoe: yes
    • Stephen T. Chan: yes
    • Cordell Cleare: yes
    • Rachel May: yes
    • James Skoufis: yes
    • Thomas F. O'Mara: yes

Related bills

  • Prior session: S 7835not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 2004not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 5174not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 9340

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S6599?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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

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