Bill Text: NY S03178 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes an advisory committee within the definition of a public body for purposes of the open meetings law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03178 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S03178-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 3178                                                  A. 2399
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Investi-
          gations and Government Operations
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the public officers law, in relation to the definition
          of a public body pursuant to the open meetings law
          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 advisory committee or other similar body of such public
    10  body.
    11    § 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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