Bill Text: NY S08464 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Corrects gendered language.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8934B [S08464 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S08464-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8464--A IN SENATE March 3, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to correcting gendered language The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 42 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 528 of the laws of 1950, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. Whenever the authority to fill any vacancy is vested in a board and 5 such board is unable to fill such vacancy in an elective office by 6 reason of a tie vote, or such board neglects to fill such vacancy for 7 any other reason, the governor may, [in his] at the governor's 8 discretion, make proclamation of a special election to fill the vacancy. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14246-05-2