Bill Text: NY A02094 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "honesty in permit processing act"; requires state agencies to annually report to the public on the time periods for processing applications of each type of permit, license, registration and certification; such report shall be submitted to the governor and the legislature, and be made available to the public on the agency internet homepage; requires permit processing information to be printed on the cover page of each permit application; requires all permit applications to be processed within a time period equal to 134% of the average processing time during the previous calendar year; failure to complete processing within such period of time shall require the state agency to refund the application fees to the applicant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A02094 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02094-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2094
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring state  agen-
          cies  which  issue  licenses,  registrations,  permits  and/or certif-
          ications to annually report on the periods of time  taken  to  process
          each application therefor
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "honesty in permit processing act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 164-e to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 164-e. License and permit application processing; annual reports. 1.
     6  For the purposes of this section:
     7    (a) "Permit" shall mean any permit, license, certification,  registra-
     8  tion  or  approval  issued  by a state agency, which is required by law,
     9  rule or regulation.
    10    (b) "State agency" shall mean any department, board,  bureau,  commis-
    11  sion, division, authority, office, council or agency of the state.
    12    2.  Every state agency, which processes and issues one hundred or more
    13  permits during a calendar year, shall, on or before  February  fifteenth
    14  each  year,  issue  and  publish  a report on its permit processing time
    15  periods during the preceding calendar year, which shall include, but not
    16  be limited to:
    17    (a) the average time it took to process applications for each specific
    18  type of permit from the receipt of the application  therefor  until  the
    19  issuance or denial of such permit; and
    20    (b)  the  shortest  and  longest periods of time it took to process an
    21  application for each specific type of permit.
    22    3. The report required by subdivision two of  this  section  shall  be
    23  submitted  to  the  governor  and  the legislature, and be published and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  distributed, in both written and electronic forms,  for  access  by  the
     2  public. Each state agency shall post, on its internet homepage, the most
     3  recent report it has issued pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
     4    4.  The  information  compiled  pursuant  to  subdivision  two of this
     5  section, for each specific permit shall be printed on the cover page  of
     6  the application for such permit.
     7    5.  Each  state agency shall annually process applications for permits
     8  within a time period which is equal to or less than one hundred  thirty-
     9  four  percent of the average time period for processing applications for
    10  that type of permit during the preceding calendar year.  In any instance
    11  in which a state agency fails to process an application within such time
    12  period, such agency shall immediately refund to the permit applicant all
    13  charges and fees imposed as a condition of submitting such permit appli-
    14  cation.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    16  the date on which it shall have become a law.