Bill Commons

NY S 9739

in committee

Relates to requiring agencies to report information about FOIL inquiries to the committee on open government

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 9739 pass?

Not yet. NY S 9739 is in committee as of 2026-06-01 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-06-01): PRINT NUMBER 9739A

What is NY S 9739 about?

Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

Who sponsors NY S 9739?

Brian Kavanagh is the primary sponsor of NY S 9739.

Description

Requires all agencies to submit to the committee on open government a log of all freedom of information law requests for each year in which they received or have pending a request for records; requires the committee on open government to publish, on one webpage, all freedom of information law request logs it receives.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-06-01 — PRINT NUMBER 9739A
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Brian Kavanaghprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-04-02

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-06-01

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    amendment-passage,referral-committee

  3. 2026-06-01

    PRINT NUMBER 9739A

    amendment-passage

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: S 8671not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 452not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 2321

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S9739?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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