NY State Senate Bill 2017-S1937

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Jan 03, 2018	referred to cities
Jan 11, 2017	referred to cities

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Cities
Law Section:: New York City Charter
Laws Affected:: Amd §2601, NYC Chart
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:: S5443

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the membership of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library.

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S1937

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the New York city charter, in
relation to the membership of the board of trustees of the Queens
Borough Public Library

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

This bill will make additional and necessary changes to the executive
functioning of the Queens Borough Public Library by including the
library within the jurisdiction of the New York City Conflicts of
Interest Law.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section one of the bill amends subdivisions 2 and 19, respectively, of
section 2601 of the New York City Charter, as added by a vote of the
people of the city of New York at the general election held in
November of 1988, by removing the exclusion of a public library from
the definition of agency and amending the definition of "public
servant" to include executive directors and key library executive
personnel of the Queens Borough Public Library.

Section two of the bill sets forth an immediate effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

In 2014 significant reform measures were passed into law in Chapter 45
of the Laws of 2014 which sought to address serious misconduct and
questionable practices taking place in the Queens Borough Public
Library. While those measures were welcome and effective, there
remains a significant reform which has yet to be passed that is
necessary to complete the important process that was begun in 2014.

This legislation will make the Queens Borough Public Library subject
to the city's Conflict of Interest law. This provision recognizes the
major sources of public funding the Queens Borough Public Library
receives and the resulting obligation that it is subject to the same
ethics and freedom of information requirements as all other
quasi-public agencies who must comply with these important laws.

As with the prior reforms, this legislation takes necessary steps in
reforming the current law governing Queens Borough Public Library in
order to ensure that this institution is functioning in a way that is
transparent and accountable to the citizens that it serves and who
fund its operations.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

New bill.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS :

To be determined.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1937
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 
 AN ACT to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the membership
   of the board of trustees of the Queens Borough Public Library
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 19 of section 2601 of the New York city
 charter, as added by a vote of the people of the city of New York at the
 general election held in November  of  1988,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  "Agency"  means a city, county, borough or other office, position,
 administration, department, division, bureau, board, commission, author-
 ity, corporation, advisory committee or other agency of government,  the
 expenses  of  which are paid in whole or in part from the city treasury,
 and shall include but not be limited to, the  council,  the  offices  of
 each  elected official, the board of education, community school boards,
 community boards, the financial services  corporation,  the  health  and
 hospitals  corporation,  the public development corporation, and the New
 York city housing authority, but shall not  include  any  court  or  any
 corporation  or institution maintaining or operating a [public library,]
 museum, botanical garden, arboretum, tomb, memorial building,  aquarium,
 zoological garden or similar facility.
   19.  "Public  servant"  means all officials, officers and employees of
 the city, including members of community boards [and], members of  advi-
 sory committees, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AND KEY LIBRARY EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL
 OF  THE QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY, except unpaid members of advisory
 committees shall not be public servants.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01193-01-7

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cities Committee

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Tony Avella

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Cities Committee

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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