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