File #: Int 0260-2022    Version: * Name: Creating a website to produce and sign petitions seeking particular actions by city government.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 4/28/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a website to produce and sign petitions seeking particular actions by city government
Sponsors: Christopher Marte
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) to establish and maintain a website for the public to petition city government. Once a petition reaches a threshold of electronic signatures it will be submitted to the appropriate agency for review and response. DoITT would also be required to report on agency responses to public petitions and issue an annual report to the Council on the petitions transmitted to each agency, along with the agency response, if any.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required, Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 260, 2. Int. No. 260, 3. April 28, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-28-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 28, 2022
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Christopher Marte City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/28/2022*Christopher Marte City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/28/2022*Christopher Marte City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 260

 

By Council Member Marte

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating a website to produce and sign petitions seeking particular actions by city government

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 23 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 9 to read as follows:

CHAPTER 9

PETITIONING CITY GOVERNMENT

§ 23-901 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

Department. The term “department” means the department of information technology and telecommunications.

Public authority. The term “public authority” means a state authority or local authority as defined in section 2 of the public authorities law that operates within the city of New York.

Online petition. The term “online petition” means a petition that:

1. Calls for an action to be taken by an agency or public authority;

2. Is available on the website required by subdivision a of section 23-902; and

3. Can be signed with individual electronic signatures.

§ 23-902 Website for petitioning city government. a. The department shall establish a website that allows members of the public to create and sign online petitions and allows city agencies or public authorities to post public responses to online petitions.

b. After an online petition reaches a threshold number of electronic signatures, as determined by the department by rule, such petition shall be transmitted to the appropriate agency or public authority for a public response.

c. The department shall make a request for information at least once every six months from each agency or public authority that received at least one online petition from the department during the preceding six months. Such request shall be for information including, but not limited to, (i) the public response from each agency or public authority to each petition it received from the department, if any, and (ii) a summary of the actions taken by such agency or public authority in response to such petition, if any.

d. This section does not prohibit an agency from maintaining a separate process for public submission of petitions.

§ 23-903 Reporting. a. The department shall maintain an automated reporting system, available to the public, on the website created pursuant to subdivision a of section 23-902. Such reporting system shall include, at a minimum, (i) the number of online petitions transmitted to each agency or public authority, (ii) the number of such petitions to which each agency or public authority has responded, and (iii) each agency or public authority’s public response to each petition.

b. No later than June 30 of the year following effective date of this chapter, and each year thereafter, the department shall issue a report to the speaker of the council and the mayor containing, at a minimum, a list of online petitions transmitted to each agency or public authority, the relevant agency or public authority’s public response to such petition, if any, and a summary of the actions taken by the relevant agency or public authority in response to such petition, if any.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the department of information technology and telecommunications shall take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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