Bill Text: NY A07545 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A07545 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07545-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7545 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations 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. LBD05859-01-1