Bill Text: NY A09538 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9538 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the secretary of state to compile, make public and keep current certain information on persons subjected to section 73-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making positions; further requires the secretary of state to post such information on the department of state website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-08 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [A09538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09538-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9538
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 15, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to information on persons
          subjected to section 73-a of the public  officers  law  and  who  hold
          policy-making positions
          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 agencies pertaining to persons subjected
     4  to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold poli-
     5  cy-making positions.  1. As used in this section "agency" means:
     6    (a) any state department, board, bureau, division, council, committee,
     7  commission, or office;
     8    (b)  any  other similar state public organization established pursuant
     9  to state statutes, executive order, or other executive  action  for  the
    10  exercise  of  any  function of state government and to which members are
    11  appointed or elected; and
    12    (c) any public authority or public benefit corporation a  majority  of
    13  whose  members  are  appointed  by  the  governor or serve as members by
    14  virtue of holding state offices to which  they  were  appointed  by  the
    15  governor, or any combination thereof.
    16    2. "Agency" does not include:
    17    (a)  any  informal  advisory organization established exclusively by a
    18  state agency to advise a commissioner, secretary, or other  director  of
    19  that agency on an informal basis;
    20    (b) the state legislature; and
    21    (c) any local government or subdivision or entity thereof.
    22    3.  The  secretary  of  state  shall maintain a compilation of persons
    23  subjected to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and  who
    24  hold  policy-making  positions  at  all  state agencies, including state
    25  agencies established after the effective date of  this  section.    Such
    26  compilation  shall  identify  by agency the persons subjected to section
    27  seventy-three-a of the public officers law and  who  hold  policy-making
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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