STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2664--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by Sens. KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, PERKINS, SERRANO -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Finance -- recommitted to the Committee on  Finance  in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  enacting  the  online
          revenues and expenditures transparency act
          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 184 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 184. Online revenues and expenditures transparency act.  1.    Defi-
     4  nitions. As used in this section:
     5    (a)  "Searchable  budget  database  website" shall mean a website that
     6  allows the public at no cost to search for, obtain,  and  aggregate  the
     7  information identified in this section.
     8    (b)  "Entity  and/or  recipients"  shall mean any corporation, associ-
     9  ation, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, or  any
    10  other  legal  business  entity.  It  shall  also  include any grantee or
    11  subgrantee, contractor or subcontractor, county,  city  or  other  local
    12  government  entity.  It  shall  not  include any individual recipient of
    13  state assistance.
    14    (c) "Agency" shall mean any state department, office,  board,  commis-
    15  sion, bureau, division, institution, or institution of higher education.
    16  "Agency"  specifically  includes  any authority created by an act of the
    17  state legislature, including those authorities not receiving  state  tax
    18  revenue.  This  includes individual state agencies and programs, as well
    19  as those programs and activities  that  cross  agency  lines,  and  also
    20  includes  all elective offices in the executive branch of government and
    21  the legislature.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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