Bill Text: NY A05537 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly to provide each member of their respective chamber with any reports issued to them.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A05537 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05537-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5537

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring the tempo-
          rary  president  of  the  senate  and  the  speaker of the assembly to
          provide each member of  their  respective  chamber  with  any  reports
          issued to them

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9. Whenever the temporary president of the senate is issued  a  report
     4  from  any  agency,  authority,  board,  bureau, commission, corporation,
     5  department, division, office or task force or any other  subdivision  of
     6  the  state  or  federal  government  or  a county, city, town or village
     7  government within the state, the temporary president of the senate shall
     8  electronically distribute such report to each member of the senate.
     9    § 2. Section 7 of the legislative law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    10  undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
    11    Whenever the speaker of the assembly is issued a report from any agen-
    12  cy, authority, board, bureau, commission, corporation, department, divi-
    13  sion,  office  or  task  force  or any other subdivision of the state or
    14  federal government or a county, city, town or village government  within
    15  the  state,  the speaker of the assembly shall electronically distribute
    16  such report to each member of the assembly.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06316-01-3