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]
Download: New_York-2023-S07296-Introduced.html
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]
Download: New_York-2023-S07296-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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