Bill Text: NY A00526 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Amends the definition of "public body" to include any entity created or appointed to perform a necessary function in the decision-making process.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A00526 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00526-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 526--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BLAKE, BUCHWALD, GALEF, ABINANTI, CARROLL, COOK, DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, LUPARDO, RICHARDSON, L. ROSENTHAL, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, NIOU, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental 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 amending the definition of a "public body" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 102 of the public officers law, as 2 amended by chapter 704 of the laws of 1979 and such section as renum- 3 bered by chapter 652 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. "Public body" means any entity, for which a quorum is required in 5 order to conduct public business and which consists of two or more 6 members, performing a governmental function for the state or for an 7 agency or department thereof, or for a public corporation as defined in 8 section sixty-six of the general construction law, or committee or 9 subcommittee or other similar body consisting of members of such public 10 body or an entity created or appointed to perform a necessary function 11 in the decision-making process. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03782-03-9