Bill Text: NY S06654 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the department of state to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning studies directed by the legislature to be completed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06654 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06654-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6654

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     August 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to direct the department of state to study,  evaluate,  and  make
          recommendations  concerning  studies directed by the legislature to be
          completed

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Study.  The  department of state is hereby authorized and
     2  directed to conduct a study of studies directed by the legislature to be
     3  completed over the past five years. Such study shall examine, at a mini-
     4  mum, the following:
     5    (a) how much all these studies have cost the state, including, but not
     6  limited to, the usual expenses paid to people conducting the studies;
     7    (b) how many studies, if any, have failed to produce and  deliver  the
     8  required reports, information, or any product required to be produced by
     9  the study; and
    10    (c) how many recommendations in these studies have become bills, laws,
    11  rules, or regulations.
    12    §  2.  Powers.  The  department of state may consult with any state or
    13  local office, agency, or department and  request  information  from  any
    14  such  entity  that  is  relevant  and material to the completion of this
    15  study and report.
    16    § 3. Report. No later than one year after the effective date  of  this
    17  act,  the  department of state shall deliver a report of the findings of
    18  the study conducted pursuant to section one of this act to the governor,
    19  the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
    20    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13486-01-9
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