Bill Text: NY A05236 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that annual department reports be distributed in electronic format only, unless otherwise requested by a member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05236 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05236-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5236

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BRABENEC, J. M. GIGLIO, WALSH, LEMONDES,
          DeSTEFANO,  SIMPSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. K. BROWN, DURSO,
          HAWLEY -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental
          Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to the distribution of
          annual reports

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 164 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 833
     2  of the laws of 1965, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 164. Reports  by and to the department.  Each department, other than
     4  the executive department, shall make an annual report  to  the  governor
     5  and legislature on or before the fifteenth day of May, for the preceding
     6  calendar  year. It shall contain such information concerning the depart-
     7  ment and its several divisions, bureaus, offices,  agencies  and  insti-
     8  tutions,  and their activities and affairs, and such recommendations, as
     9  the head of the department shall  deem  necessary  or  proper,  and  any
    10  matters  required  by  express  provision  of law to be included in such
    11  report. A department also shall make such other and special  reports  as
    12  the  governor  or either house of the legislature may require. From time
    13  to time, the head of a department may require from any board, commission
    14  or other body in the department  or  from  any  subordinate  officer  or
    15  employee,  division or bureau of the department, or from any institution
    16  subject to the supervision of the department, or from any agency of  the
    17  department, such reports or information as such head may deem necessary.
    18  Unless  expressly  authorized by the head of the department, there shall
    19  be hereafter no separate report, annual or otherwise,  directly  to  the
    20  legislature  or  governor  by any such board, commission, body, officer,
    21  division, bureau, institution or  agency  notwithstanding  any  existing
    22  provision of law authorizing or requiring such report.  Each department,
    23  to  the  extent  practicable, shall make such annual report available to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03839-01-3
        A. 5236                             2

     1  members of the legislature in electronic format. Such reports  shall  be
     2  forwarded  to  members  of  the  legislature  in  printed form only upon
     3  specific request of a member of the legislature for such printed report.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.