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Committee advances bill to extend open meetings and FOIL to certain LDCs
Summary
A bill to apply open-meetings and Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requirements to certain not-for-profit local development corporations (LDCs) was advanced out of committee. Members requested further review but the measure was passed and reported to the floor.
A Senate committee on Feb. 10 advanced legislation intended to extend open-meetings and FOIL requirements to certain not-for-profit corporations often set up by municipalities, commonly described as local development corporations (LDCs).
The transcript identifies the measure as "Senate bill s 61 65," sponsored by a senator recorded as "Scoop/Scoopis/Scoop" in multiple places. Committee discussion described the change as intended to bring greater public opportunity to observe deliberations by LDCs that some members said have been used as workarounds to avoid compliance with open-meetings and FOIL laws.
One committee member requested more information before full endorsement; the transcript records an "AWR" entered by a senator (recorded as Matero/Matera) to look into the bill further. Despite that request for additional review, the record shows the motion advanced and the committee reported the bill to the floor by voice vote.
The transcript does not include the bill text, definitions for which entities would be covered, nor any recorded roll-call vote.
