STATE OF NEW YORK
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5143
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 9, 2017
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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.
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