[{"_1":2,"_85":-5,"_86":-5},"loaderData",{"_3":4,"_26":27},"root",{"_5":6,"_17":10,"_18":19,"_20":21,"_22":10,"_23":-5,"_24":-5,"_25":10},"user",{"_7":8,"_9":10,"_11":10,"_12":-5,"_13":-5,"_14":15,"_16":-5},"roles",[],"isAuthenticated",false,"isPremium","planName","subscriptionStatus","featureFlags",{},"insightsBudget","isDevelopmentHost","userPreferences",{},"recaptchaSiteKey","6LcvOJcUAAAAAHsB-gPGfGktcRlKpH7OTIU_dMTD","isImpersonating","impersonation","affiliateStatus","isFreedomPortal","routes/v2/article/layout",{"_28":29,"_30":31},"notFound",true,"relatedArticles",[32,75],{"_33":34,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":40,"_41":42,"_43":44,"_45":46,"_47":48,"_49":50,"_51":52,"_53":-5,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":59,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":65,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":71,"_72":73,"_74":73},"mediaId",6310253,"mediaKeyId","2403743-d492bfcde2e21e395a0b58c858b9837c","parentId",2403743,"title",".Gov website requirement eased for small municipalities in Assembly chapter amendment","audioSeconds",1340,"startMs",3540000,"endMs",4880000,"viewUrl","/Search/View?dp=1&key=2403743-d492bfcde2e21e395a0b58c858b9837c&start=3540&end=4880","thumbnailUrl","https://d352y6ypj4mjo3.cloudfront.net/AudioPlaceholder.png","articleUrl","/articles/6310253/New-York/Gov-website-requirement-eased-for-small-municipalities-in-Assembly-chapter-amendment","mediaUrl","author","New York Legislature","date","2025-02-26T00:00:00Z","article","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 the amendment balances security and practicability.

Under the chapter amendment, municipalities with fewer than 1,500 residents are not required to obtain a .gov domain; they are asked to implement changes \"to the extent practicable\" and may instead maintain a page on a town, county or city website. Sponsors told members that roughly 300 municipalities would fall under the threshold out of approximately 1,500 total municipal entities, and that about 80% of those already have a website.

Supporters said moving a municipality's domain to a .gov label is typically simple and need not require a full website rebuild. Critics, notably members representing rural areas, argued the measure still represents an unfunded mandate for communities with minimal staff and limited broadband access. \"This is an unfunded mandate for communities that their only paid employees is the highway superintendent,\" said Assemblymember Angelino, who described districts with limited or no cell service and questioned the imposition of a statewide requirement on small towns.

The chapter amendment also creates flexibility for municipalities required to comply: those entities may host required information as a page on a larger municipal website rather than stand up entirely new infrastructure. The amendment extends the compliance window to a full year to ease implementation costs.

Assemblymember Sempulinski explained his affirmative vote by noting the chapter narrows the bill's earlier reach and removes the requirement for the very smallest towns — he said his district includes the town of Red House, which has about 30 residents. The Assembly recorded the vote on the chapter amendment as Ayes 128, Noes 14.

Sponsors said the chapter amendment reflected negotiated changes with the governor's office, municipal associations and other stakeholders and that opposition from the association of counties had been withdrawn after the revisions. The bill text on the floor referenced the general municipal law as the underlying statute.","mediaType","Audio","parentTitle","2-26-25 Session","oneSentenceSummary","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.","taxTitle","2025 Legislature NY, New York","taxId",77685,"location","New York","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":50,"_51":82,"_53":-5,"_54":55,"_56":57,"_58":83,"_60":61,"_62":63,"_64":84,"_66":67,"_68":69,"_70":71,"_72":73,"_74":73},6310257,"Assembly approves chapter amendment clarifying Child Parent Security Act",1690,2661000,4351000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2403743-d492bfcde2e21e395a0b58c858b9837c&start=2661&end=4351","/articles/6310257/New-York/Assembly-approves-chapter-amendment-clarifying-Child-Parent-Security-Act","The New York State Assembly on a motion by Assemblymember Pollan advanced and then passed a chapter amendment to the Child Parent Security Act (senate bill 20507), adopting technical corrections that sponsors said fix implementation problems in the original budget language.

Supporters said the amendments restore or clarify procedural details and timelines left unclear during the law's initial enactment. \"The bill was put into the budget, and there were things that when it was implemented needed to be fixed,\" Assemblymember Pollan, sponsor of the chapter amendment, told colleagues while explaining the changes.

The chapter amendment makes several specific changes discussed on the floor: it corrects a retroactivity clause to tie the law back to 2021 (the year the Child Parent Security Act first took effect), requires courts to issue amended judgments that include a child's name and birth date once the court is notified of a birth, and preserves the original statute's list of health-care responsibilities for intended parents. Those responsibilities, as stated on the floor, include preconception care, prenatal care, major medical treatments, hospitalization and behavioral-health care during the surrogate's pregnancy and for 12 months after the child's birth. Sponsors said some insurance-related provisions were removed from this chapter amendment and will be addressed in a subsequent bill.

Sponsor Pollan said the Office of Court Administration and attorneys for intended parents worked to identify technical fixes. She said several clarifications are intended to help hospitals and courts know who the legal parent is and to speed timely notification to the court because due dates vary. Pollan said the chapter amendment leaves for later session additional insurance changes that lawmakers did not have sufficient time to finalize.

Opponents and some members acknowledged the subject's controversy. One assemblymember who spoke in debate described broader objections to paid surrogacy, saying critics contend it \"commodifies a woman's body and that paid surrogacy potentially treats reproduction as a commodity that could possibly lead to the exploitation of lower class or destitute women.\" Other members said the chapter amendment does not expand the scope of services beyond what the original law specified.

The Assembly recorded the final vote on the chapter amendment as Ayes 128, Noes 13. The sponsor said the change to the retroactivity clause corrected a drafting error that had left the earlier amendment referring to 2022 rather than 2021.

The chapter amendment also delays one reporting requirement tied to hospital registrars: a portion of the technical changes that would have required certain hospital-record reporting was moved to take effect three years after the act becomes law, per the sponsor and administration request. Sponsors said the delay was requested by the Department of Health to allow implementation time.

Because some insurance provisions were excluded from this chapter amendment, sponsors said additional corrective legislation addressing insurance provisions will come later in the session.","The Assembly advanced and passed a chapter amendment to technical corrections for the Child Parent Security Act, clarifying parentage procedures, medical-responsibility timelines for intended parents and a retroactivity correction while deferring some insurance and hospital-recording provisions.","actionData","errors"]

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