Bill Text: NY A10004 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "honesty in permit processing act"; requires state agencies to annually report to the public on the time periods for processing applications of each type of permit, license, registration and certification; such report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature, and be made available to the public on the agency internet homepage; requires permit processing information to be printed on the cover page of each permit application; requires all permit applications to be processed within a time period equal to 134% of the average processing time during the previous calendar year; failure to complete processing within such period of time shall require the state agency to refund the application fees to the applicant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-04 - referred to governmental operations [A10004 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10004-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10004 IN ASSEMBLY May 4, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state agen- cies which issue licenses, registrations, permits and/or certif- ications to annually report on the periods of time taken to process each application therefor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "honesty in permit processing act". 3 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 164-e to 4 read as follows: 5 § 164-e. License and permit application processing; annual reports. 1. 6 For the purposes of this section: 7 (a) "Permit" shall mean any permit, license, certification, registra- 8 tion or approval issued by a state agency, which is required by law, 9 rule or regulation. 10 (b) "State agency" shall mean any department, board, bureau, commis- 11 sion, division, authority, office, council or agency of the state. 12 2. Every state agency, which processes and issues one hundred or more 13 permits during a calendar year, shall, on or before February fifteenth 14 each year, issue and publish a report on its permit processing time 15 periods during the preceding calendar year, which shall include, but not 16 be limited to: 17 (a) the average time it took to process applications for each specific 18 type of permit from the receipt of the application therefor until the 19 issuance or denial of such permit; and 20 (b) the shortest and longest periods of time it took to process an 21 application for each specific type of permit. 22 3. The report required by subdivision two of this section shall be 23 submitted to the governor and the legislature, and be published and 24 distributed, in both written and electronic forms, for access by the 25 public. Each state agency shall post, on its internet homepage, the most 26 recent report it has issued pursuant to subdivision two of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07236-01-5A. 10004 2 1 4. The information compiled pursuant to subdivision two of this 2 section, for each specific permit shall be printed on the cover page of 3 the application for such permit. 4 5. Each state agency shall annually process applications for permits 5 within a time period which is equal to or less than one hundred thirty- 6 four percent of the average time period for processing applications for 7 that type of permit during the preceding calendar year. In any instance 8 in which a state agency fails to process an application within such time 9 period, such agency shall immediately refund to the permit applicant all 10 charges and fees imposed as a condition of submitting such permit appli- 11 cation. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding 13 the date on which it shall have become a law.