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                                        5548--A
                              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
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and recommitted to said committee
       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.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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