A00611 Summary:
BILL NO | A00611 |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S01328 |
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SPONSOR | Paulin |
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Amd §203-b, Exec L; amd §2, Chap of 2022 (as proposed in S.8145 & A.843-A) | |
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Requires the commissioner of general services to maintain a list of all state boards; requires each state board to maintain a publicly accessible website; requires each website associated with a state board to include certain information about such state board; changes the effectiveness of chapter 219 to November 1, 2013. |
A00611 Actions:
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01/10/2023 | referred to governmental operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | rules report cal.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | ordered to third reading rules cal.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/18/2023 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/14/2023 | SUBSTITUTED FOR S1328 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/14/2023 | 3RD READING CAL.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/14/2023 | PASSED SENATE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
02/14/2023 | RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/03/2023 | delivered to governor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03/03/2023 | signed chap.8 |
A00611 Committee Votes:
Heastie | Excused | Barclay | Aye | ||||||
Weinstein | Excused | Hawley | Aye | ||||||
Pretlow | Aye | Giglio | Aye | ||||||
Cook | Aye | Blankenbush | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Norris | Aye | ||||||
Aubry | Aye | Ra | Aye | ||||||
Dinowitz | Aye | Brabenec | Aye | ||||||
Colton | Aye | Palmesano | Aye | ||||||
Magnarelli | Aye | Reilly | Aye | ||||||
Paulin | Aye | ||||||||
Peoples-Stokes | Aye | ||||||||
Benedetto | Aye | ||||||||
Lavine | Aye | ||||||||
Lupardo | Aye | ||||||||
Zebrowski | Aye | ||||||||
Thiele | Aye | ||||||||
Braunstein | Aye | ||||||||
Dickens | Aye | ||||||||
Davila | Aye | ||||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Rozic | Aye | ||||||||
Bronson | Aye | ||||||||
McDonald | Aye | Durso | Aye | ||||||
Glick | Aye | Goodell | Aye | ||||||
Kim | Aye | Beephan | Aye | ||||||
Bichotte Hermel | Excused | Slater | Aye | ||||||
Hyndman | Aye | ||||||||
Williams | Excused | ||||||||
Wallace | Aye | ||||||||
Meeks | Aye | ||||||||
Raga | Aye | ||||||||
Simone | Aye | ||||||||
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A00611 Floor Votes:
Yes
Alvarez
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Flood
Yes
Kim
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Simpson
Yes
Anderson
Yes
Chandler-Waterm
Yes
Forrest
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Slater
Yes
Angelino
Yes
Chang
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lee
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ardila
Yes
Clark
Yes
Gallagher
Yes
Lemondes
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Colton
Yes
Gallahan
Yes
Levenberg
Yes
Pirozzolo
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
Yes
Conrad
Yes
Gandolfo
Yes
Lucas
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
Cook
Yes
Gibbs
Yes
Lunsford
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stern
Yes
Beephan
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio JA
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Raga
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Bendett
Yes
Cunningham
Yes
Giglio JM
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Rajkumar
Yes
Tague
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Curran
Yes
Glick
Yes
Maher
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Tannousis
Yes
Bichotte Hermel
Yes
Darling
Yes
Gonzalez-Rojas
Yes
Mamdani
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tapia
Yes
Blankenbush
ER
Davila
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
Yes
Blumencranz
Yes
De Los Santos
Yes
Gray
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Bores
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Gunther
ER
McDonough
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Vanel
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hawley
Yes
McGowan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Walker
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Dinowitz
ER
Hunter
Yes
Meeks
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Brook-Krasny
ER
DiPietro
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Sayegh
ER
Weinstein
Yes
Brown E
Yes
Durso
Yes
Jackson
Yes
Miller
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Brown K
Yes
Eachus
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Mitaynes
Yes
Septimo
Yes
Williams
Yes
Burdick
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Shimsky
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Burgos
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jensen
Yes
Norris
Yes
Shrestha
Yes
Zaccaro
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Jones
Yes
Novakhov
Yes
Sillitti
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
Yes
Joyner
ER
O'Donnell
Yes
Simon
Yes
Zinerman
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Kelles
Yes
Otis
Yes
Simone
Yes
Mr. Speaker
‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
A00611 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)   BILL NUMBER: A611 SPONSOR: Paulin
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the commis- sioner of general services to maintain a list of all state boards and requiring each state board to maintain a publicly accessible website; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relating to information on state boards, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 843-A, in relation to the effectiveness thereof   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this bill is to make technical changes to Chapter 773 of the Laws of 2022, in order to effectuate the intent of the law.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section one would make conforming changes to the requirements for state board or agencies to maintain a website and the information that will be available on the website. Section two would amend section two of Chapter 773 of the laws of 2022, providing for an effective date of April 1, 2023 and only applicable to contracts entered into after such date. Section three would establish the effective date of this bill.   JUSTIFICATION: No complete public inventory of state commissions, boards, councils, task forces, or similar bodies exists in New York. As a result, it is difficult, if not impossible, for New Yorkers to have an understanding of existing boards, their composition, purpose or legal responsibil- ities. The Committee on Oversight, Analysis & Investigation recently completed a review of more than one hundred statutorily authorized boards, task forces, and commissions. The review found that only about half have information online, only thirty percent listed public meet- ings, and only forty-five percent had contact information was readily available. Forty-three states have some form of centralized compilation or list of state boards. This legislation would bring New York in line with the majority of states which already provide this information to their citi- zens and enable New Yorkers to easily find information about boards. Overall, this is an important step in improving accountability and increasing government transparency. This information is critically important to enable oversight authorities to make recommendations on merging boards with duplicative duties and purposes or eliminate nonfunctioning boards. Since being vetoed in 2010, executive action through the SAGE Commission has helped address some of the issues but failed to reach the level of transparency that a list of all commissions would provide. Any costs for creating transparency are far outweighed by the potential cost saving of consolidation and the positive societal benefits of transparency.   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relating to information on state boards, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 843-A, takes effect.
A00611 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 611 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the commis- sioner of general services to maintain a list of all state boards and requiring each state board to maintain a publicly accessible website; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relating to information on state boards, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 843-A, in relation to the effectiveness thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 203-b of the executive law, as added by a chapter 2 of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law relating to information 3 on state boards, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 4 843-A, is amended to read as follows: 5 § 203-b. Additional duties of the commissioner regarding information 6 on state boards. 1. As used in this section, "commissioner" means the 7 commissioner of [the office of] general services and, "board" means any 8 board, commission, committee, council, task force or any similar state 9 public organization, required to be established pursuant to the state 10 constitution, state statutes or executive order, for the exercise of any 11 function of state government and to which members are appointed or 12 elected. "Board" does not include: 13 a. any informal advisory organization not established [exclusively] by 14 [a state agency to advise the commissioner, secretary, or director of15that agency on an informal basis] law; 16 b. any joint standing committee of the legislature or any committee of 17 the assembly and/or senate composed entirely of members of the legisla- 18 ture; 19 c. any court; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03941-01-3A. 611 2 1 d. the board of trustees of any institution of higher education finan- 2 cially supported in whole or in part by the state; 3 e. any entity of local government; 4 f. any public authority or public benefit corporation, a majority of 5 whose members are appointed by the governor or serve as members by 6 virtue of holding state offices to which they were appointed by the 7 governor, or any combination thereof; and 8 g. any board of elections. 9 2. The commissioner shall maintain a [compilation of the membership10and meeting information] list of all state boards, including state 11 boards deemed active and regularly meeting on and after the effective 12 date of this section. The commissioner shall keep such [inventory in a13public record available for inspection, and updated annually] list on a 14 website designated by the commissioner for the purpose of public access, 15 and such list shall have a link to the website for each such board 16 established pursuant to subdivision three of this section. [Such compi-17lation shall include, but not be limited to:18a. statutory language, executive order or other legal basis or author-19ization for the establishment of such board;20b. public information including departmental affiliation, contact21address, phone number, and website;22c. a brief description of the purpose of the board and its legally23required duties, including required reports or other products;24d. the size of board membership, current member names, and any quali-25fications;26e. whether members of a board are eligible for payment of expenses or27other compensation in the performance of their duties as members of that28board;29f. dates and locations of all meetings held, and to be held within six30months, or a location, including but not limited to another website, in31which such information can be publicly accessed;32g. geographic and other relevant qualifications of all current members33of the board, including the county in which the member resides and the34background or expertise the member possesses where such background or35expertise is required for membership on such board; and36h. any other information the commissioner may require. Nothing in37this section shall authorize the release or publication of any board38member's residential address.392-a. The commissioner shall also, to the extent practicable, maintain40and update annually a compilation of all available information of all41state boards currently authorized by provisions of the state constitu-42tion, state statutes or executive orders that the commissioner deems43inactive. For purposes of this section, a board shall be deemed inactive44if it has not held a meeting in the year prior to the effective date of45this section. A board shall hereafter be treated as inactive for the46purposes of this section if it has not met in the preceding calendar47year.483. The commissioner shall update on an annual basis beginning April49first, two thousand twenty-three on the designated website, all vacan-50cies, expired terms, those terms expiring within one year, and the proc-51ess for filling such vacancies on such boards] The designated website 52 shall be updated annually. 53 [4.] 3. Each board or the state agency that provides administrative 54 support or is otherwise affiliated with a board shall establish and 55 maintain a website available to the public and provide a link to such 56 website to the commissioner. Each board or the state agency thatA. 611 3 1 provides administrative support or is otherwise affiliated with a board 2 shall annually on or before January first, [submit to the commissioner3all information pursuant to this section in a manner specified by the4commissioner to facilitate the publication requirements of this section.5Each submission shall also include information on compensation and6expenses incurred in the prior and current fiscal years, as well as7projected costs for the coming fiscal year] update the information on 8 its website. 9 [5. The commissioner shall receive from any department, division,10board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state any information11and resources as will enable him or her to properly carry out the12purposes of this section.] 13 4. The website established by each board or the state agency that 14 provides administrative support or is otherwise affiliated with a board 15 shall include, but not be limited to: 16 a. statutory language, executive order or other legal basis or author- 17 ization for the establishment of such board; 18 b. public information including departmental affiliation, contact 19 address, phone number, and website; 20 c. a brief description of the purpose of the board and its legally 21 required duties, including required reports or other products; 22 d. the size of board membership, current member names, and any quali- 23 fications; 24 e. whether members of a board are eligible for payment of expenses or 25 other compensation in the performance of their duties as members of such 26 board and information on compensation and expenses incurred in the prior 27 and current fiscal years, as well as projected costs for the coming 28 fiscal year; 29 f. meeting minutes and agendas, dates and locations of all meetings 30 held, and to be held within six months, or a location, including but not 31 limited to another website, in which such information can be publicly 32 accessed; 33 g. geographic and other relevant qualifications of all current members 34 of the board, including the county in which the member resides and the 35 background or expertise the member possesses where such background or 36 expertise is required for membership on such board; and 37 h. any other information the commissioner may require. Nothing in this 38 section shall authorize the release or publication of any board member's 39 residential address. 40 5. Each board or the state agency that provides administrative support 41 or is otherwise affiliated with a board shall update on an annual basis 42 beginning November first, two thousand twenty-three on its website, all 43 vacancies, expired terms, terms expiring within one year, and the proc- 44 ess for filling such vacancies on such boards. 45 6. On or before January first, two thousand twenty-four, the commis- 46 sioner shall report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the 47 temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assembly oversight, 48 analysis and investigation committee and the chair of the senate inves- 49 tigations and government operations committee on the status of the 50 [inventory] list including but not limited to the number of boards 51 reported and verified[; the aggregate demographic information of52appointments made by each appointing authority including but not limited53to race, sex, and geographic representation of such appointees provided54that no information shall be personally identifiable, and the content55and completeness of the information gathered in accordance with theA. 611 4 1requirements of this section]. The commissioner shall also report on any 2 impediments to obtaining information. 3 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive 4 law relating to information on state boards, as proposed in legislative 5 bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 843-A, is amended to read as follows: 6 § 2. This act shall take effect [April] November 1, 2023. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 8 section one of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the 9 same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law 10 relating to information on state boards, as proposed in legislative 11 bills numbers S. 8145 and A. 843-A, takes effect.
A00611 LFIN:
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A00611 Chamber Video/Transcript:
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