Bill Text: NY A00416 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to meetings and proceedings of the joint commission on public ethics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00416-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           416
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PAULIN, GALEF, DINOWITZ, MOSLEY, STECK -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD,  COOK,  THIELE  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  meetings and
          proceedings of the joint commission on public ethics
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 19 of section 94 of the execu-
     2  tive  law,  as amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) [Notwithstanding the provisions of article  seven  of  the  public
     5  officers  law,  no  meeting or proceeding, including any such proceeding
     6  contemplated under paragraph (h) or (i)  of  subdivision  nine  of  this
     7  section,]  Meetings  and  proceedings of the commission shall be open to
     8  the public[, except if expressly provided otherwise by the commission or
     9  as is required by article one-A of  the  legislative  law]  pursuant  to
    10  article seven of the public officers law. Notwithstanding the provisions
    11  of  article  seven of the public officers law, commissioners may partic-
    12  ipate in a meeting or proceeding of the  commission,  including  voting,
    13  from  a  location not open to the general public to conduct the business
    14  of the commission, so long as one of the locations from which the  meet-
    15  ing  or  proceeding  is  being conducted complies with the provisions of
    16  article seven of the public officers law. Such participation shall count
    17  towards quorum.  Furthermore, the commission shall maintain a record  of
    18  the  final  vote of each member in every proceeding of the commission in
    19  which the member votes.
    20    § 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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