S1418 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Provides for the award of reasonable attorneys' fees in FOIL proceedings if the person is successful and in open meeting proceedings to the successful petitioner and against the public body.
- Title
- Relates to the award of reasonable attorney's fees in certain proceedings
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-29
- In committee
- Governmental Operations
- Introduced
- 2025-01-09
- Active version
- S1418A
- Same as
- A950
- Law section
- Public Officers Law
Sponsors
- John C. Liu State Senator, District 16
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
- Cordell Cleare State Senator, District 30
- Jabari Brisport State Senator, District 25
Heard in committee
- Governmental Operations NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Investigations And Government Operations NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A950 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Finance, 2026-05-12 First reading
- Investigations And Government Operations, 2026-02-10 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Finance, 2025-05-20 First reading
- Investigations And Government Operations, 2025-04-07