Bill Text: NY A05854 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to expanding the definition of agency; includes entities created by an agency or that are governed by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is designated by one or more state or local government officials in the definition of agency under the public officers law.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A05854 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05854-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5854--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, ABINANTI, KEARNS, GOTTFRIED, GALEF,
          ENGLEBRIGHT, SIMON, SEPULVEDA, COLTON, CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by --
          M. of A. COOK, HYNDMAN, JENNE, MAGEE, ORTIZ, THIELE -- read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental Operations -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  expanding  the
          definition of agency
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law,  as
     2  added by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
     3    3.  "Agency"  means  any state or municipal department, board, bureau,
     4  division, commission, committee, public authority,  public  corporation,
     5  council,  office  or other governmental entity performing a governmental
     6  or proprietary function for the state or any one or more  municipalities
     7  thereof,  as well as entities created by an agency and that are governed
     8  by a board of directors or similar body a majority of  which  is  desig-
     9  nated  by  one  or  more state or local government officials, except the
    10  judiciary or the state legislature.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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