§ 88 — Access to state legislative records

§ 88. Access to state legislative records. 1. The temporary president\nof the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall promulgate rules and\nregulations for their respective houses in conformity with the\nprovisions of this article, pertaining to the availability, location and\nnature of records, including, but not limited to:\n (a) the times and places such records are available;\n (b) the persons from whom such records may be obtained;\n (c) the fees for copies of such records, which shall not exceed\ntwenty-five cents per photocopy not in excess of nine inches by fourteen\ninches, or the actual cost of reproducing any other record, except when\na different fee is otherwise prescribed by law.\n 2. The state legislature shall, in accordance with its published\nrules, make available for public inspection and copying:\n (a) bills and amendments thereto, fiscal notes, introducers' bill\nmemoranda, resolutions and amendments thereto, and index records;\n (b) messages received from the governor or the other house of the\nlegislature, and home rule messages;\n (c) legislative notification of the proposed adoption of rules by an\nagency;\n (d) transcripts or minutes, if prepared, and journal records of public\nsessions including meetings of committees and subcommittees and public\nhearings, with the records of attendance of members thereat and records\nof any votes taken;\n (e) internal or external audits and statistical or factual tabulations\nof, or with respect to, material otherwise available for public\ninspection and copying pursuant to this section or any other applicable\nprovision of law;\n (f) administrative staff manuals and instructions to staff that affect\nmembers of the public;\n (g) final reports and formal opinions submitted to the legislature;\n (h) final reports or recommendations and minority or dissenting\nreports and opinions of members of committees, subcommittees, or\ncommissions of the legislature;\n (i) any other files, records, papers or documents required by law to\nbe made available for public inspection and copying.\n (j) external audits conducted pursuant to section ninety-two of the\nlegislative law and schedules issued pursuant to subdivision two of\nsection ninety of the legislative law.\n 3. Each house shall maintain and make available for public inspection\nand copying: (a) a record of votes of each member in every session and\nevery committee and subcommittee meeting in which the member votes;\n (b) a record setting forth the name, public office address, title, and\nsalary of every officer or employee; and\n (c) a current list, reasonably detailed, by subject matter of any\nrecords required to be made available for public inspection and copying\npursuant to this section.\n