minutes after the bill was pulled assembly speaker Craig Coughlin issued a statement that said in part his chamber will move at a slower Pace to tweak the bill promising to meet with the various stakeholders and work together in updating the legislation good government groups though say that may not be enough many are calling for an Oprah study commission to get it right it would be a group composed of Mayors Municipal clerks and members of the media and open government Advocates among others all to figure out how the law should fulfill its need some 100 municipalities are on board with the idea but are legislative leaders let's ask one I'm joined Now by assembly speaker Craig coford Mr Speaker thanks for your time let me ask you about the statement that you put out on the Oprah Bill saying that you and your chamber will take the time needed to look at these reforms what does that timeline look like for you and would you support pulling this bill entirely to allow for a study Commission well I I think the the the statement says exactly what we mean that I don't have a timeline for doing this uh look here's what has happened we we put the bill in committee as is the process in for all bills that we consider the purpose of doing it is to gather input from citizens and in a committee anyone in a state can come in and talk about what they think about a given piece of legislation uh that that you know there was reported widely this was being rushed and things like that I had never committed to a time frame for doing this if if people had come in it was favorable and we were able to do it we probably would have passed it on this coming Monday but uh it's clear that there is some uh work to be done uh and we're going to take the time that we need I think the notion of a study commission is is is not necessary we have two legislative committees that are undertak this bill uh and have taken testimony I'm not really sure what else a study commission would do that's what we do as legislators and that's why we have uh committee hearings so that people can yeah respectfully if I may I mean the study commission as I understand and as the the 100 plus towns who have signed on to support it would look at Best Practices in other states um would look at what exactly needs to be quote unquote modernized to keep up with the digital records keeping um those are just a couple of the items well but again they can come to a Committee hearing and testify as to that we're going to have another Committee hearing down the road to talk about uh the bill and and I would suggest that that's probably a better vehicle uh your counterpart Senator sarlo on this Bill said that he would like to see this get done uh by April of course before all of the the budget negotiations really get down uh in Earnest are you you aligned with that you said that you never committed to a timeline yeah I look I think Senator Starin first let me commend the the Senate sponsor Senator SP sarlo assemblyman Danielson for the work that they have done to try to modernize this which is something I think that is uh everyone agrees it's time to take a look at this you know the when this the first law was enacted it was five years before the iPhone something like Facebook didn't even exist let alone the notion of uh you know having data mining going on so uh the the truth of the matter is I I think if we can get this done uh in April uh that that would make uh an awful lot of sense uh and you don't speaker Mr Speaker you wouldn't consider that uh a fast-tracked pace well I mean the notion of the bill has been around for quite some time and now the bill have been out it be well over a month before we ever we have voted on it so uh you know I think it look how long is right time is sort of alchemy there's no specific uh notion of it you I think most importantly what what is most important is that we get it right Brian and not uh commit to a time frame but look I think that every voting session will offer offer an opportunity to get get things done and we should look at it in terms of being able to get this done because there are reasons to change the bill what parts of the bill Mr Speaker speaker do you think need to be changed and are there items like email logs uh like call logs uh the fee shifting uh that you might consider not changing well I I think look what we need to do there we've been working on some amendments over the last several days uh I'm going to take a look at what at what that's been developed I think on uh on some of those items that you talked about uh like Fe shifting I'm I'm open to looking at the language that's in there you know judges have an awful lot of discretion right now in the law as it exist uh and whether we need to how we need to address that I think is something we ought to look at um logs and and the Tex and things like that are something that you know we want to make sure we we have the uh we get that right some of these things are are tricky BR as you can imagine right uh there throughout the the an discussion of of this there is the issues of balancing the equities the Privacy that's maybe anticipated by the public for example if they sign up for uh emergency notices do they they realize they've just given you know created a public document that somebody May uh political campaign for example can can go and get their cell phone information which they they don't want to people to have is that not something Mr Speaker that perhaps a study commission made up of lawyer uh government groups uh media lawmakers Mayors would not be best equipped to do no I think we can hear from all those people I don't I don't know that their opinions are forestalled by not creating commission I think they're they uh their opinions and their input is is welcomed and has the opportunity to be heard through the committee process fair enough uh assembly speaker Craig Coughlin as always we thank you so much for your time thank so much nice to see you again