Bill Text: NY S05143 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to meetings and proceedings of the joint commission on public ethics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05143 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05143-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5143
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
        AN ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  meetings  and
          proceedings of the joint commission on public ethics
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 19 of section 94 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 399 of  the  laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  [Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of article seven of the public
     5  officers law, no meeting or proceeding, including  any  such  proceeding
     6  contemplated  under  paragraph  (h)  or  (i) of subdivision nine of this
     7  section,] Meetings and proceedings of the commission shall  be  open  to
     8  the public[, except if expressly provided otherwise by the commission or
     9  as  is  required  by  article  one-A of the legislative law] pursuant to
    10  article seven of the public officers law. Notwithstanding the provisions
    11  of article seven of the public officers law, commissioners  may  partic-
    12  ipate  in  a  meeting or proceeding of the commission, including voting,
    13  from a location not open to the general public to conduct  the  business
    14  of  the commission, so long as one of the locations from which the meet-
    15  ing or proceeding is being conducted complies  with  the  provisions  of
    16  article seven of the public officers law. Such participation shall count
    17  towards  quorum.  Furthermore, the commission shall maintain a record of
    18  the final vote of each member in every proceeding of the  commission  in
    19  which the member votes.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06307-01-7
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