Bill Text: NY S04621 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to file a report detailing the amount of money spent on outside consultants each quarter to the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04621-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4621

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          metropolitan transportation authority to file a report  detailing  the
          amount of money spent on outside consultants

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

     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph  of  section  1269-e  of  the  public
     2  authorities  law,  as added by section 13 of part H of chapter 25 of the
     3  laws of 2009, is amended and a new subparagraph B is added  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    A. The authority shall submit to the governor, the temporary president
     6  of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, no later than thirty days
     7  following the submission of the annual independent audit report pursuant
     8  to section twenty-eight hundred two of this chapter, a complete detailed
     9  report  or  reports  setting  forth,  to the extent such matters are not
    10  fully addressed in the annual independent audit report, the following:
    11    B. The authority shall submit to the governor, the temporary president
    12  of the senate and the speaker of the assembly  a  report  detailing  the
    13  amount  of  money spent on outside consultants including but not limited
    14  to research firms or law firms. Such report shall be filed quarterly  on
    15  or  before  the  first of the month succeeding the end of the quarter in
    16  which such money was spent.
    17    § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09309-01-1