Per the Post Standard: Proposed NY law would require documents to be made public before meetings.
Amen to that idea! All too often members of the public that are concerned enough to attend city or town council meetings have no idea what their representatives are discussing because proposed legislation is been distributed solely amongst the representatives.
In this day when almost any individual can publish information and make it available to the world on the web at virtually no cost, there is simply NO EXCUSE for legislative bodies to not make this material available to the public in advance of meetings by posting it on the Internet. It is actually less time consuming and labor intensive to publish on the web than to print and physically distribute materials.
According to the article, the Governor has until today to sign this into law. Let's hope that he does.