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.Gov website requirement eased for small municipalities in Assembly chapter amendment
Summary
The Assembly passed a chapter amendment to a municipal-law bill (Senate 783) that creates a 1,500-resident threshold for mandatory .gov websites, allows smaller municipalities to use pages on other municipal sites, and extends the rollout timeline from 180 days to one year.
The Assembly passed a chapter amendment to Senate bill 783 that adjusts a state requirement for municipal websites, establishing a 1,500-resident threshold for which municipalities must have a ".gov" domain and doubling the implementation window from 180 days to one year.
Assemblymember Cace, sponsor of the chapter amendment, told the chamber the changes were negotiated with municipal associations and the administration to reduce the burden on very small local governments. ".Gov, not anyone can get a .gov. Not just anybody. It has to be a government entity," Cace said, describing the federal .gov program's cybersecurity and authenticity benefits and arguing that…
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