Bill Text: NY A05000 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires all state agencies to provide paper copies of the forms they utilize to individuals and commercial entities required to file such forms.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-29 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A05000 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 10, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. FINCH, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Governmental
         Operations
       AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to requiring all state
         agencies to provide paper copies of the forms they utilize to individ-
         uals and commercial entities required to file such forms
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 170-c
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 170-C. PAPER COPIES OF REQUIRED FORMS  TO  BE  PROVIDED.  ANY  STATE
    4  AGENCY  THAT  REQUIRES THE FILING OF A FORM OR FORMS BY A RESIDENT INDI-
    5  VIDUAL OR BY A COMMERCIAL ENTITY LOCATED WITHIN  THE  STATE  SHALL  MAIL
    6  SUCH INDIVIDUAL OR COMMERCIAL ENTITY A PAPER COPY OF SUCH FORM OR FORMS.
    7  INDIVIDUALS  AND COMMERCIAL ENTITIES MAY FILE SUCH FORM OR FORMS BY MAIL
    8  OR IN PERSON AND SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT ANY FORM OR FORMS ELEC-
    9  TRONICALLY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08557-01-5
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