Bill Text: NY A09612 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9612 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to online posting of full text of rules, statements and analyses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-4)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-09 - signed chap.304 [A09612 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09612-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          9612
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ZEBROWSKI, THIELE, McDONALD, GOTTFRIED, SIMON,
          CAHILL, BUCHWALD,  SKOUFIS,  GALEF,  MONTESANO,  CORWIN,  McKEVITT  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A.  COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, MAGEE, McDONOUGH,
          NOLAN, ROBINSON, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in  relation  to
          online posting of full text of rules, statements and analyses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2  of  section  201-a  of  the
     2  state  administrative procedure act, as added by chapter 189 of the laws
     3  of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (g) When any statement issued pursuant to  this  section  exceeds  two
     5  thousand  words, the agency shall prepare a summary of such statement in
     6  less than two thousand words for publication in the  state  register  in
     7  which  it  shall identify the website of the agency, or of another state
     8  entity, on which the full text of the statement has been posted.
     9    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 202 of the state admin-
    10  istrative procedure act, as amended by chapter 429 of the laws of  2003,
    11  is amended to read as follows:
    12    (a)  Prior  to the adoption of a rule, an agency shall submit a notice
    13  of proposed rule making to the secretary of state for publication in the
    14  state register and shall afford the  public  an  opportunity  to  submit
    15  comments  on  the proposed rule. Unless a different time is specified by
    16  statute [or this paragraph], the notice of  proposed  rule  making  must
    17  appear in the state register at least forty-five days prior to either
    18    (i) the addition, amendment or repeal of a rule for which statute does
    19  not require that a public hearing be held prior to adoption, or
    20    (ii)  the first public hearing on a proposed rule for which such hear-
    21  ing is so required.
    22    The notice of proposed rule making shall indicate the  last  date  for
    23  submission  of  comments on the proposed rule, which, unless a different
    24  time is specified in statute or this paragraph, shall be not  less  than
    25  forty-five  days  after  the  date of publication of such notice, or, if
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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