Bill Text: NY S05548 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of environmental conservation to identify any advisory panel, board, task force, and other similar entity which has been established in the environmental conservation law and which has been inactive for at least five years.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S05548 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5548
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 1, 2011
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       Introduced  by Sen. GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
       AN ACT in  relation  to  requiring  the  commissioner  of  environmental
         conservation  to  identify  certain  advisory panels, boards, and task
         forces
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the
    2  commissioner of environmental conservation shall identify  any  advisory
    3  panel, board, task force, council or other similar entity which has been
    4  established  in  the  environmental  conservation law and which has been
    5  inactive for at least five years.    The  commissioner,  no  later  than
    6  December 31, 2012, shall furnish a list of such inactive panels, boards,
    7  task forces, councils, and other entities to the governor, the temporary
    8  president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly. The legislature
    9  shall make use of such list to repeal any laws related to such entities.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10996-02-1