File #: Int 0132-2010    Version: Name: Require a feasibility study relating to the webcasting of public hearings and meetings.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Technology
On agenda: 4/14/2010
Enactment date: 12/2/2013 Law number: 2013/103
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that all public meetings be webcast.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Daniel Dromm , Julissa Ferreras-Copeland, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Annabel Palma, Diana Reyna, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Deborah L. Rose, James G. Van Bramer, Jumaane D. Williams, Daniel R. Garodnick, James Vacca, Robert Jackson, Vincent J. Gentile, Jessica S. Lappin, Charles Barron, David G. Greenfield, Daniel J. Halloran III
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 132 - 4/14/10, 2. Committee Report 4/29/13, 3. Hearing Testimony 4/29/13, 4. Hearing Transcript 4/29/13, 5. Committee Report 11/14/13, 6. Hearing Transcript 11/14/13, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-14-13, 9. Mayor's Letter, 10. Local Law 103
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/2/2013AGale A. Brewer City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/2/2013AGale A. Brewer Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/2/2013AGale A. Brewer Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013AGale A. Brewer City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013AGale A. Brewer City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2013AGale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/2013*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/29/2013*Gale A. Brewer Committee on Technology Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/2010*Gale A. Brewer City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/14/2010*Gale A. Brewer City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 132-A
 
By Council Members Brewer, Dromm, Ferreras, James, Koppell, Lander, Mark-Viverito, Palma, Reyna, Rodriguez, Rose, Van Bramer, Williams, Garodnick, Vacca, Jackson, Gentile, Lappin, Barron, Greenfield and Halloran
 
 
A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that all public meetings be webcast.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Section 1063 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
d. Each city agency, committee, commission and task force and the council shall record or cause to be recorded in digital video format its meetings and hearings, or portions thereof, that are required to be public pursuant to article seven of the public officers law, provided that this section shall not apply to community boards or local school boards. Such recordings shall be webcast live, where practicable, and shall be archived and made available to the public on the city's website or on the website of such agency, committee, commission, task force, or council, not more than seventy-two hours after adjournment of the meeting or hearing recorded.
ยง 2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after its enactment.
 
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