Bill Text: NY S04142 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "community needs integrity act" and establishes the community need review commission.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S04142 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04142-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4142
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to enacting the  commu-
          nity  needs  integrity  act and establishing the community need review
          commission
          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 "community needs integrity act".
     3    § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a  new  article  6-B  to
     4  read as follows:
     5                                 ARTICLE 6-B
     6                      COMMUNITY NEED REVIEW COMMISSION
     7  Section 95. Community need review commission.
     8          96. Powers and duties of the commission.
     9          97. Community needs integrity plan.
    10    §  95. Community need review commission. There is hereby established a
    11  community need review commission which shall consist of twelve  members,
    12  to  be  appointed  as  follows:  three members shall be appointed by the
    13  temporary president of the senate, three members shall be  appointed  by
    14  the  speaker  of  the  assembly, three members shall be appointed by the
    15  minority leader of the senate and three members shall  be  appointed  by
    16  the minority leader of the assembly. Each member of the commission shall
    17  serve  at  the pleasure of the official who appointed him or her. Vacan-
    18  cies in the membership of the commission shall be filled in  the  manner
    19  provided  for original appointments. The members of the commission shall
    20  receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed  for
    21  the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of
    22  their duties pursuant to this article.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06391-01-7
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     1    §  96.  Powers and duties of the commission. The community need review
     2  commission, in cooperation with  the  attorney  general  and  the  comp-
     3  troller,  shall review and oversee the distribution of member item funds
     4  set forth in the state budget. In  carrying  out  this  objective,  such
     5  commission shall have the following powers and duties:
     6    1. to safeguard the integrity and openness of the process of determin-
     7  ing how member items shall be distributed;
     8    2. to ensure that the public has access to such process;
     9    3.  to  establish guidelines for prioritizing and ranking requests for
    10  member items;
    11    4. to provide a mechanism whereby requests for member items  are  made
    12  available to the public on or before March seventeenth of each year;
    13    5.  to  provide  a mechanism whereby final funding decisions regarding
    14  the distribution of member items are made available to the public on  or
    15  before April eighth of each year; and
    16    6.  to  develop  a  community needs integrity plan consistent with the
    17  provisions of section ninety-seven of this article.
    18    § 97. Community  needs  integrity  plan.  The  community  need  review
    19  commission  shall  establish a community needs integrity plan. Such plan
    20  shall provide for the following:
    21    1. fair distribution of member item funds to all regions of the state;
    22    2. member item funds be awarded to programs based on the need, quality
    23  and merit of the program or project;
    24    3. member items be set forth in a detailed manner, open to the  public
    25  with specific references to the program or project being funded;
    26    4. sanctions for member item funds inappropriately disbursed;
    27    5. mechanisms to recoup inappropriately disbursed member item funds;
    28    6. any other provision the commission deems appropriate.
    29    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.