Bill Text: NY A09630 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the secretary of state to compile, make public and keep current certain information about state boards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-28 - referred to governmental operations [A09630 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09630-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9630

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PAULIN, MAGNARELLI, LUPARDO, JAFFEE, GALEF --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. COOK, GLICK, GUNTHER, PERRY, THIELE --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to information  on  state
          boards

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  100-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  100-b.  Information  on  state  boards.  1. As used in this section
     4  "board" means any board, commission, committee, council, task  force  or
     5  any similar state public organization, required to be established pursu-
     6  ant  to state statutes or executive order, for the exercise of any func-
     7  tion of state government and to which members are appointed or  elected.
     8  "Board" does not include:
     9    a.  any  informal  advisory  organization established exclusively by a
    10  state agency to advise the commissioner, secretary, or director of  that
    11  agency on an informal basis;
    12    b. any joint standing committee of the legislature or any committee of
    13  the  assembly and/or senate composed entirely of members of the legisla-
    14  ture;
    15    c. any court;
    16    d. the board of trustees of any institution of higher education finan-
    17  cially supported in whole or in part by the state;
    18    e. any entity of local government;
    19    f. any public authority or public benefit corporation, a  majority  of
    20  whose  members  are  appointed  by  the  governor or serve as members by
    21  virtue of holding state offices to which  they  were  appointed  by  the
    22  governor, or any combination thereof; and
    23    g. any board of elections.
    24    2.  The secretary of state shall maintain a compilation of the member-
    25  ship and meeting information of all state boards, including state boards
    26  established after the effective date of this section. The  secretary  of
    27  state  must  keep  such  inventory  in  a  public  record  available for

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03770-02-0
        A. 9630                             2

     1  inspection, and updated annually on the  department  of  state  website.
     2  Such compilation shall include, but not be limited to:
     3    a.  statutory  language,  executive order or other legal basis for the
     4  establishment of such board;
     5    b. public  information  including  departmental  affiliation,  contact
     6  address, phone number, and website;
     7    c. a brief description of the purpose of the board and its statutorily
     8  required duties, including required reports or other products;
     9    d.  the size of board membership, current member names, and any quali-
    10  fications;
    11    e. whether members of a board are eligible for payment of expenses  or
    12  other compensation in the performance of their duties as members of that
    13  board;
    14    f. dates and locations of all meetings held, and to be held within six
    15  months; and
    16    g. any other information the secretary of state may require.
    17    3.  The  secretary  of state shall update on an annual basis beginning
    18  April first, two thousand twenty-two on the department of state website,
    19  all vacancies, expired terms, those terms expiring within one year,  and
    20  the process for filling such vacancies on such boards.
    21    4. Each board or the state agency that provides administrative support
    22  or  is  otherwise  affiliated  with  a board shall annually on or before
    23  January first, submit to the secretary of state all information pursuant
    24  to this section in a manner specified  by  the  secretary  of  state  to
    25  facilitate   the   publication  requirements  of  this  section.    Each
    26  submission shall also include information on compensation  and  expenses
    27  incurred  in  the  prior  and current fiscal years, as well as projected
    28  costs for the coming fiscal year.
    29    5. The secretary of state shall receive from any department, division,
    30  board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state  any  information
    31  and  resources  as  will  enable  him  or  her to properly carry out the
    32  purposes of this section.
    33    6. On or before June first, two thousand twenty-two, the secretary  of
    34  state  shall  report  to  the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the
    35  temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assembly  oversight,
    36  analysis  and investigation committee and the chair of the senate inves-
    37  tigations and government operations  committee  on  the  status  of  the
    38  inventory including but not limited to the number of boards reported and
    39  verified;  and  the content and completeness of the information gathered
    40  in accordance with the requirements of this section. The secretary shall
    41  also report on any impediments to obtaining information.
    42    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    43  the date on which it shall have become a law.