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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

S 452: Relates to requiring agencies to report information about FOIL inquiries to the committee on open government

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

S 452 is a bill introduced in the New York Senate on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Relates to requiring agencies to report information about FOIL inquiries to the committee on open government. Primary sponsor: Brad Hoylman-Sigal. It lists 10 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 8, 2025): REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 7 · Democratic/Working Families 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Brad Hoylman-SigalPrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Jabari BrisportCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate25
Cordell CleareCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30
Leroy ComrieCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Pat FahyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate46
Nathalia FernándezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate34
Andrew GounardesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate26
Robert JacksonCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate31
Liz KruegerCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesSenate28
Chris RyanCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate50
James SkoufisCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate42

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source