Publication of records relating to Senate legislative and administrative records

Section 1. a. Publication of records relating to Senate legislative and administrative records. Recognizing that legislative records available by request under the "freedom of information law" are of important public interest, the Senate shall make available through a searchable and sortable database on the Senate website: records of committees, agendas, votes, minutes, reports, attendance, fiscal notes, and records of the chamber including, active lists, votes, transcripts, calendars, the Senate payroll report and expenditure reports. b. Furthermore all such records listed in subdivision a shall be available for public inspection and copying in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 of the Public Officers Law, "the freedom of information law." c. The Secretary of the Senate shall be the repository for all rules and regulations regarding public inspection and copying of Senate records. Such rules and regulations shall pertain to the times and places such records are available, the persons from whom such records may be obtained, the fees for copies of such records and the procedures to be followed. d. Nothing in this section shall be construed to increase the legislative requirements set forth in subdivision 2 or 3 of section 88 of the public officers law.