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]
Download: New_York-2015-A05000-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5000 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