Bill Text: NY S07296 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the council on the arts to have members from each of the ten regions of the state; allows members appointed prior to the effective date to complete the natural end of their term before appointments shall be made in accordance with such requirement.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-04 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8978A [S07296 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7296

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
          Parks and Recreation

        AN ACT to amend the arts  and  cultural  affairs  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring the council on the arts to have members from each of the ten
          regions of the state

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3.03  of  the  arts  and  cultural
     2  affairs  law,  as amended by chapter 205 of the laws of 2008, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    1. The council on the arts  in  the  executive  department  is  hereby
     5  continued.  The  twenty-one  members shall be, broadly representative of
     6  all fields of the performing and fine  arts,  to  be  appointed  by  the
     7  governor,  with the advice and consent of the senate, from among private
     8  citizens who are widely known  for  their  professional  competence  and
     9  experience  in  connection  with the performing and fine arts; provided,
    10  however, that the council shall have at least one member  from  each  of
    11  the  ten regions of the state, as such regions are defined by the empire
    12  state development corporation. In making such appointments, due  consid-
    13  eration  shall  be  given  to the recommendations made by representative
    14  civic, educational and professional associations and  groups,  concerned
    15  with  or engaged in the production or presentation of the performing and
    16  fine arts generally.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11231-01-3