Bill Text: NY S08228 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the chair and commissioners of the state liquor authority to file an annual statement of financial disclosure pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-16 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S08228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8228

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations

        AN ACT to amend the alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring the chair and commissioners of the state liquor authority to
          file certain disclosures

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

     1    Section 1. Section 11  of  the  alcoholic  beverage  control  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  2  of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    § 11. Appointment of authority. The members of the authority shall  be
     5  appointed  by  the  governor  by  and with the advice and consent of the
     6  senate. Not more than two members of the authority shall belong  to  the
     7  same political party. The [chairman] chair of the state alcoholic bever-
     8  age  control  board  heretofore appointed and designated by the governor
     9  and the remaining members of such  board  heretofore  appointed  by  the
    10  governor  shall continue to serve as [chairman] chair and members of the
    11  authority until the expiration of the respective terms  for  which  they
    12  were  appointed.    Upon  the  expiration  of  such respective terms the
    13  successors of such [chairman] chair and members shall  be  appointed  to
    14  serve  for  a  term  of three years each and until their successors have
    15  been appointed and qualified.  The commissioners, other than the [chair-
    16  man] chair shall, when performing the work of the authority, be  compen-
    17  sated  at  a rate of two hundred sixty dollars per day, together with an
    18  allowance for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of
    19  their duties. The [chairman] chair shall receive an annual salary estab-
    20  lished in section one hundred sixty-nine of the executive law.  Notwith-
    21  standing any provision of law  to  the  contrary,  the  chair  and  each
    22  commissioner  shall be required to file an annual statement of financial
    23  disclosure pursuant to section seventy-three-a of  the  public  officers
    24  law.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03665-01-3