STATE OF NEW YORK
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9994
IN ASSEMBLY
April 30, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG, McLAUGHLIN, P. RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI,
MILLMAN, CLARK, KEARNS, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
CALHOUN, DUPREY, McDONOUGH, MOYA, PERRY, SAYWARD, SWEENEY -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to including
providers of services to the developmentally disabled that receive
state funding under the purview of the freedom of information law
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, except the judiciary or the state legislature. "Agency" shall
8 also include providers of services to the developmentally disabled oper-
9 ating under an operating certificate pursuant to article thirty-one of
10 the mental hygiene law and funded by the state.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
14 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or
15 before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15298-01-2
