Bill Text: NY A05387 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain bills which establish a commission, task force, board, council or any similar body shall have not less than one position appointed by each of the legislative leaders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05387 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05387-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5387

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, SMITH, MIKULIN,
          SMULLEN, MILLER, MANKTELOW,  WALSH,  J. M. GIGLIO,  JENSEN,  GALLAHAN,
          LEMONDES, DeSTEFANO, NORRIS, SIMPSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          DiPIETRO, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, GOODELL, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the legislative law, in relation to bills containing
          provisions requiring appointments to be made by the legislative  lead-
          ers

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

     1    Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 52-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 52-a. Requirements  with  respect  to  bills  containing  provisions
     4  requiring  appointments  to be made by the legislature.  1. For purposes
     5  of this section, the term "legislative leaders" shall mean the temporary
     6  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead-
     7  er of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly.
     8    2. Any bill which establishes a commission, task force,  board,  coun-
     9  cil, or similar body, and which requires that a number of the members on
    10  such  commission,  task  force,  board, council, or similar body receive
    11  their appointments from the legislature, shall have not  less  than  one
    12  member appointed by each of the legislative leaders.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03840-01-3