Bill Text: NY A00435 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that upon a vacancy, the council of the arts shall not be deemed out of compliance with the requirement that each of the ten regions of the state be represented by at least one member of the council so long as such vacancy is filled within a reasonable time and the appointment made for such new vacancy moves the composition of the council closer to such requirement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - substituted by s793 [A00435 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00435-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           435

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN ACT to amend the arts and cultural affairs law, in relation to vacan-
          cies on the council of the arts

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 3.03 of the arts
     2  and cultural affairs law, as amended by a chapter of the  laws  of  2024
     3  amending  the  arts  and  cultural affairs law relating to requiring the
     4  council on the arts to have members from each of the ten regions of  the
     5  state, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7296-A and A. 8978-A,
     6  is amended to read as follows:
     7    (c)  The  council on the arts shall not be out of compliance with this
     8  section upon vacancy, and shall retain its  full  powers  enumerated  in
     9  section 3.05 of this article, provided that[, to the extent practicable,
    10  as  each new successive vacancy occurs,] such vacancy is filled within a
    11  reasonable time and the appointment made for such new vacancy shall move
    12  the composition of the council closer to the requirement  that  each  of
    13  the  ten regions of the state as defined by the empire state development
    14  corporation be represented by at least one member of the council to  the
    15  extent practicable.
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    17  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the arts  and  cultural
    18  affairs  law  relating  to  requiring  the  council  on the arts to have
    19  members from each of the ten regions of the state, as proposed in legis-
    20  lative bills numbers S. 7296-A and A. 8978-A, takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02726-01-5