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Senate bill · S455 (2025-26)

Lowers quorum requirements for meetings of community boards held by videoconferencing

Latest action Jun 9, 2025

Summary

Provides that, for a quorum, an advisory board may require that at a minimum, one quarter of the members and the presiding officer of a community board physically be present at a location where the public can attend for such board to conduct videoconferencing.

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Where it stands

Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Up for a vote
  4. Passed one chamber
  5. Passed
  6. Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A3342, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the Public Officers Law.

Committee

Governmental Operations · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Investigations And Government Operations · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

To ease requirements for in-person attendance of community board members

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

  • Vote: Floor vote

    NY SenateJun 9, 2025Result: passed

    (60) (2) (0) (1)

  • Vote: Committee vote · Rules

    Senate RulesJun 4, 2025Result: passed

    (20) (0) (0) (1)

The sponsor's argument

Why the sponsor says this is needed

The FY23 Enacted budget created flexibility for public bodies to use videoconferencing while complying with the Open Meetings Law. One of the requirements was that a quorum of the public body must meet in person. For community boards in New York City, which can have up to 50 members and are volunteer positions, gathering a quorum presents a significant burden. This bill will ease those requirements only for community boards by requiring that a quarter of the membership and the relevant presiding officer be physically present in order to allow the use of videoconfer- encing for other members.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

  1. Jun 9, 2025

    Sent to the executive

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

    NY Senate

  2. Jun 9, 2025

    Passed a chamber

    PASSED SENATE

    NY Senate

  3. Jun 9, 2025

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

    NY Assembly

  4. Jun 4, 2025

    In committee

    COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

    NY Senate

  5. Jun 4, 2025

    Ordered to Third Reading CAL.1519

    ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1519

    NY Senate

Show full history (2 earlier events)
  1. Feb 11, 2025

    Amend and Recommit to Investigations and Government Operations

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    NY Senate

  2. Jan 8, 2025

    Referred to committee

    REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

    NY Senate

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