Bill Text: NY A00526 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of "public body" to include any entity created or appointed to perform a necessary function in the decision-making process.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00526 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00526-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         526--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  BLAKE,  BUCHWALD,  GALEF, ABINANTI,
          CARROLL, COOK, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO, RICHARDSON, L. ROSENTHAL,
          ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  ENGLEBRIGHT,
          NIOU,  SIMON,  THIELE  --  read  once and referred to the Committee on
          Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in  relation  to  amending  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 consisting of members of such  public
    10  body  or  an entity created or appointed to perform a necessary function
    11  in the decision-making process.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03782-03-9