Bill Text: NY A00074 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to expanding the definition of "public body".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A00074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A00074-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          74
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DESTITO, GALEF, LANCMAN, LATIMER, REILLY,
         CAHILL,  CAMARA,  COOK,  DINOWITZ, GUNTHER, HOOPER, KAVANAGH, KELLNER,
         LUPARDO, MILLMAN, ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AMEDORE,
         GOTTFRIED, McENENY, PHEFFER, SWEENEY,  WEISENBERG  --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
       AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the definition
         of a "public body"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 102 of the public officers law, as
    2  amended  by  chapter  704 of the laws of 1979 and such section as renum-
    3  bered by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
    4    2. "Public body" means any entity, for which a quorum is  required  in
    5  order  to  conduct  public  business  and  which consists of two or more
    6  members, performing a governmental function for  the  state  or  for  an
    7  agency  or department thereof, or for a public corporation as defined in
    8  section sixty-six of the  general  construction  law,  or  committee  or
    9  subcommittee  or  other similar body of such public body, AND ANY ENTITY
   10  CONSISTING OF TWO OR MORE MEMBERS CREATED  BY  EXECUTIVE  ORDER  OF  THE
   11  GOVERNOR.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00906-01-1
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