Bill Text: NY A05827 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the integrity in government act; expands the powers and duties of the committee on open government.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-11 - print number 5827b [A05827 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05827-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5827--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS, GOTTFRIED, BLAKE, THIELE, MOSLEY, ZEBROWSKI, GRAF, RAIA, PICHARDO, McLAUGHLIN, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, LAWRENCE, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to enacting the integrity in government act The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "integrity 2 in government act". 3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 89 of the public offi- 4 cers law, as amended by chapter 33 of the laws of 1984, is amended and 5 six new paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) and (h) are added to read as 6 follows: 7 (a) The committee on open government is continued and shall consist of 8 the lieutenant governor or the delegate of such officer, the secretary 9 of state or the delegate of such officer, whose office shall act as 10 secretariat for the committee, the commissioner of the office of general 11 services or the delegate of such officer, the director of the budget or 12 the delegate of such officer, and seven other persons, none of whom 13 shall hold any other state or local public office except the represen- 14 tative of local governments as set forth herein, to be appointed as 15 follows: five by the governor, at least two of whom are or have been 16 representatives of the news media, one of whom shall be a representative 17 of local government who, at the time of appointment, is serving as a 18 duly elected officer of a local government, one by the temporary presi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09242-14-6
