Relates to expanding the definition of agency; includes entities created by an agency or that are governed by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is designated by one or more state or local government officials in the definition of agency under the public officers law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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349
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the
definition of agency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law, as
2 added by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. "Agency" means any state or municipal department, board, bureau,
4 division, commission, committee, public authority, public corporation,
5 council, office or other governmental entity performing a governmental
6 or proprietary function for the state or any one or more municipalities
7 thereof, as well as entities created by an agency and that are governed
8 by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is desig-
9 nated by one or more state or local government officials, except the
10 judiciary or the state legislature.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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