STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         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.
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