STATE OF NEW YORK
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7410
IN SENATE
January 16, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 the timely appointment
of heads of agencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 33 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 33. Timely appointment of heads of agencies. 1. For the purposes of
4 this section, "state agency" shall mean any state board, bureau, divi-
5 sion, commission, committee, public authority, public benefit corpo-
6 ration, council, office, or other governmental entity performing a
7 governmental or proprietary function for the state. "State agency" shall
8 not include state departments provided for in the New York state consti-
9 tution.
10 2. A state agency shall only have an acting head for one hundred
11 eighty days, or two hundred seventy days if the senate is adjourned when
12 the acting head is appointed if confirmation of such appointment is
13 required. Where confirmation for an appointment is required, the gover-
14 nor shall submit a name for the head of a department with an acting head
15 before one hundred eighty days or two hundred seventy days if the senate
16 is adjourned when the acting head was appointed.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14244-01-8
