Bill Text: NY S03406 | 2023-2024 | 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 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-14 - referred to governmental operations [S03406 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03406-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3406

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 31, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
          and Government 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.
                                                                   LBD04566-01-3
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