Bill Text: NY S08873 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires not-for-profit corporations have a board of directors which reflects the ethnic demographics of the communities that they serve to be able to receive state funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-03 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08873 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08873-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8873

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the  not-for-profit  corporation  law,  in  relation  to
          requiring  certain  not-for-profit corporations have a board of direc-
          tors which reflects the ethnic demographics of  the  communities  that
          they serve

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

     1    Section 1. Section  701  of  the  not-for-profit  corporation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) No corporation shall accept state funds unless the board of direc-
     4  tors  of such corporation consists of directors which reflect the ethnic
     5  demographics of the communities that such corporation serves.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
     7  law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16880-01-0