Bill Text: NY A09458 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the secretary of state to compile, make public and keep current certain information about state boards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - referred to governmental operations [A09458 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09458-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9458
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, MAGNARELLI, ROBINSON, LUPARDO, JAFFEE,
          GALEF, TITUS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,  GLICK,  GUNTHER,
          PERRY,  SCHIMEL,  THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to information  on  state
          boards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  100-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  100-a.  Information  on  state  boards.  1. As used in this section
     4  "board" means any board, commission, committee, council, task  force  or
     5  any similar state public organization, required to be established pursu-
     6  ant  to state statutes or executive order, for the exercise of any func-
     7  tion of state government and to which members are appointed or  elected.
     8  "Board" does not include:
     9    a.  any  informal  advisory  organization established exclusively by a
    10  state agency to advise the commissioner, secretary, or director of  that
    11  agency on an informal basis;
    12    b. any joint standing committee of the legislature or any committee of
    13  the  assembly and/or senate composed entirely of members of the legisla-
    14  ture;
    15    c. any court;
    16    d. the board of trustees of any institution of higher education finan-
    17  cially supported in whole or in part by the state;
    18    e. any entity of local government;
    19    f. any public authority or public benefit corporation, a  majority  of
    20  whose  members  are  appointed  by  the  governor or serve as members by
    21  virtue of holding state offices to which  they  were  appointed  by  the
    22  governor, or any combination thereof; and
    23    g. any board of elections.
    24    2.  The secretary of state shall maintain a compilation of the member-
    25  ship and meeting information of all state boards, including state boards
    26  established after the effective date of this section. The  secretary  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04851-01-5