NY State Senate Bill 2017-S2214B

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Jan 24, 2018	print number 2214b
Jan 24, 2018	amend and recommit to investigations and government operations
Jan 03, 2018	referred to investigations and government operations
Apr 19, 2017	print number 2214a
Apr 19, 2017	amend and recommit to investigations and government operations
Jan 12, 2017	referred to investigations and government operations

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2017-S2214 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5929
Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§359 & 6233, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5797
2013-2014: S2224, A7554
2015-2016: S19, A5379
2019-2020: S6275, A4367
2021-2022: S3540, A9617
2023-2024: S6863, A9570

2017-S2214 - Summary

Relates to reporting requirements of SUNY and CUNY; relates to financial information and identifying vendor information of each contract; relates to a list of all foundation and state university employees by campus, department and location including salaries, job titles and descriptions.

2017-S2214 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S2214

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
reporting requirements of the state university of New York and city
university of New York

 PURPOSE :

The purpose of this bill is to require the State and City universities
of New York to produce an annual report to be published online which
would disclose their financial records, including vendors, employees
and general accounting information for any research foundations which
are owned and operated by public colleges and community colleges.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Amends section 359 of the education law, adding subdivision 5
requiring the State University of New York to produce an annual report
regarding their financial information. Amends section 6233 of the
education law requiring the City University of New York to produce the
same report. Adds a section defining exemptions that we do not have to
be included in disclosure reports.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The Freedom of Information Law has played a crucial role in opening up

the operations of government agencies to public discussion and
reporting. This has increased accountability and responsiveness of
government agencies.

However, the current definition of agencies covered by the FOIL law
leaves out certain types of agencies that are technically not agencies
of state or local government. These entities are often incorporated as
not for profit corporations or limited liability corporations, but
operate in effect as subsidiaries of state agencies. For example the
SUNY Research Foundation is incorporated as a not for profit but
operates as an extensions of SUNY and is controlled by SUNY officials.
The Research Foundation describes itself as "the organization
responsible for managing research grants and other sponsored programs
for SUNY." Yet corporations of this type often refuse to disclose
information to the press and the public on the basis that they are not
state agencies as defined in the law.

This bill proposes that these corporations would have to disclose
their finances publically each year online. These organizations spend
millions of dollars of funds that were received by grants or donations
that were intended to further the public purpose of their affiliated
state agency. The shell of a separate corporate entity should not be
used as an excuse to deny public access to information about how they
use these funds.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-16 S.19B/A.5379B;
2013-14 S.2224B/A.7554B;
2011-12 S.5797A/A.7789E

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.

2017-S2214 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2214
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. LAVALLE, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reporting requirements
   of the state university of New York and city university of New York

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5. THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE,  ON
 OR  BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT  OF
 STATE-OPERATED  INSTITUTIONS' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS FOUNDATIONS
 AND THEIR SUBSIDIARIES, IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE  CHAN-
 CELLOR.  THE ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE POSTED
 PUBLICLY ON THE WEBSITE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE
 READABLE FORMAT BY NOVEMBER  FIRST  OF  EACH  YEAR.  THE  REPORTS  SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL  APPLICABLE  REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B. THE TOTAL NUMBER, AMOUNT, AND IDENTIFYING VENDOR INFORMATION OF ALL
 CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES; AND
   C.  THE  TOTAL  AMOUNT OF EMPLOYEES BY DEPARTMENT AND JOB LOCATION AND
 AMOUNT SPENT ON PERSONNEL BY DEPARTMENT AND  JOB  LOCATION  WHICH  SHALL
 INCLUDE  ANNUAL  EMPLOYEE SALARIES, EMPLOYEE JOB TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS
 AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS.
   § 2. Section 6233 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07873-02-7

 S. 2214                             2
 
   4.  THE  TRUSTEES OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE, ON
 OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE  RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION  OF  THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT OF
 SENIOR COLLEGES' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS  FOUNDATIONS  AND  THEIR
 SUBSIDIARIES,  IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE CHANCELLOR. THE
 ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE POSTED PUBLICLY  ON
 THE  WEBSITE  OF  THE  CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE READABLE
 FORMAT, BY NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR. THE REPORTS SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL  APPLICABLE  REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B. THE TOTAL NUMBER, AMOUNT, AND IDENTIFYING VENDOR INFORMATION OF ALL
 CONTRACTS FOR SERVICES; AND
   C.  THE  TOTAL  AMOUNT OF EMPLOYEES BY DEPARTMENT AND JOB LOCATION AND
 AMOUNT SPENT ON PERSONNEL BY DEPARTMENT AND  JOB  LOCATION  WHICH  SHALL
 INCLUDE  ANNUAL  EMPLOYEE SALARIES, EMPLOYEE JOB TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS
 AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS.
   § 3. The reports required in sections one and two of this act may  not
 disclose  the  following  information that: (a) is specifically exempted
 from disclosure by state or federal  statute;  (b)  if  disclosed  would
 constitute  an  unwarranted  invasion  of  personal  privacy  under  the
 provisions of subdivision 2 of section 89 of the  public  officers  law;
 (c)  if  disclosed  would  impair present or imminent contract awards or
 collective bargaining negotiations; (d) are trade secrets or are submit-
 ted to an entity by a commercial enterprise or derived from  information
 obtained from a commercial enterprise and which if disclosed would cause
 substantial  injury  to  the  competitive position of the subject enter-
 prise; (e) are records of an entity relating  to  charitable  donors  or
 prospective donors, including but not limited to the fund-raising strat-
 egies  of  agencies  identified  in  paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 3 of
 section 86 of the public officers law, provided that records relating to
 fund-raising strategies would, if disclosed, impair the ability of those
 entities to attract or gain donations, and  provided  further  that  the
 name of any donor and the amount of donation made by such donor shall be
 subject  to  disclosure if such donor, or any entity in which such donor
 has a substantial interest, seeks to transact business, or does transact
 business, with the entity to which the donation  is  made  within  three
 years  of  the date of such donation; and (f) are academic or scientific
 research or research-related records, including any  draft,  preliminary
 or  unfunded grant or contract document, whether sponsored by the entity
 itself or in conjunction with a third party, or records relating to  the
 entity's  intellectual  property,  which,  if disclosed, would adversely
 affect license, patent, copyright or other rights of  the  entity.  This
 section shall not permit an entity to withhold records or portions ther-
 eof  pertaining  to  the  name,  title, expenditure, source or amount of
 public funding relating to such research or intellectual property.
   § 4.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  supersede  the
 provisions of chapter 10 of the laws of 2006.
   § 5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.

co-Sponsors

2017-S2214A - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5929
Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§359 & 6233, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5797
2013-2014: S2224, A7554
2015-2016: S19, A5379
2019-2020: S6275, A4367
2021-2022: S3540, A9617
2023-2024: S6863, A9570

2017-S2214A - Summary

2017-S2214A - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S2214A

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the education law, in relation to reporting
requirements of the state university of New York and city university
of New York

 PURPOSE :

The purpose of this bill is to require the State and City universities
of New York to produce an annual report to be published online which
would disclose their financial records, including vendors, employees
and general accounting information for any research foundations which
are owned and operated by public colleges and community colleges.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Amends section 359 of the education law, adding subdivision 6
requiring the State University of New York to produce an annual report
regarding their financial information. Amends section 6233 of the
education law requiring the City University of New York to produce the
same report. Adds a section defining exemptions that we do not have to
be included in disclosure reports.

 JUSTIFICATION :

The Freedom of Information Law has played a crucial role in opening up
the operations of government agencies to public discussion and
reporting. This has increased accountability and responsiveness of
government agencies.

However, the current definition of agencies covered by the FOIL law
leaves out certain types of agencies that are technically not agencies
of state or local government. These entities are often incorporated as
not for profit corporations or limited liability corporations, but
operate in effect as subsidiaries of state agencies. For example the
SUNY Research Foundation is incorporated as a not for profit but
operates as an extensions of SUNY and is controlled by SUNY officials.
The Research Foundation describes itself as "the organization
responsible for managing research grants and other sponsored programs
for SUNY." Yet corporations of this type often refuse to disclose
information to the press and the public on the basis that they are not
state agencies as defined in the law.

This bill proposes that these corporations would have to disclose
their finances publically each year online. These organizations spend
millions of dollars of funds that were received by grants or donations
that were intended to further the public purpose of their affiliated
state agency. The shell of a separate corporate entity should not be
used as an excuse to deny public access to information about how they
use these funds.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-16 S.19B/A.5379B;
2013-14 S.2224B/A.7554B;
2011-12 S.5797A/A.7789E

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.

2017-S2214A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2214--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. LAVALLE, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and  Government  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reporting requirements
   of the state university of New York and city university of New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE, ON
 OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE  RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION  OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT OF
 STATE-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS  FOUNDATIONS
 AND  THEIR SUBSIDIARIES, IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE CHAN-
 CELLOR. THE ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  POSTED
 PUBLICLY ON THE WEBSITE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE
 READABLE  FORMAT  BY  NOVEMBER  FIRST  OF  EACH  YEAR. THE REPORTS SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL APPLICABLE REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY  ACCEPTED  ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION TWO OF THE STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B. A LIST OF ALL CONTRACTS, INCLUDING AMOUNT, PURPOSE AND  IDENTIFYING
 VENDOR INFORMATION OF EACH CONTRACT; AND
   C.  A LIST OF ALL FOUNDATION AND STATE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES BY CAMPUS,
 DEPARTMENT AND JOB LOCATION, AND THE AMOUNT SPENT BY CAMPUS,  DEPARTMENT
 AND  JOB  LOCATION WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANNUAL EMPLOYEE SALARIES OR OTHER
 COMPENSATION, EMPLOYEE JOB TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS  AND  EMPLOYEE  BENE-
 FITS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07873-03-7

 S. 2214--A                          2
 
   §  2.  Section  6233  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  THE  TRUSTEES OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE, ON
 OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE  RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION  OF  THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT OF
 SENIOR COLLEGES' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS  FOUNDATIONS  AND  THEIR
 SUBSIDIARIES,  IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE CHANCELLOR. THE
 ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE POSTED PUBLICLY  ON
 THE  WEBSITE  OF  THE  CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE READABLE
 FORMAT, BY NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR. THE REPORTS SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL  APPLICABLE  REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B.  A LIST OF ALL CONTRACTS, INCLUDING AMOUNT, PURPOSE AND IDENTIFYING
 VENDOR INFORMATION OF EACH CONTRACT; AND
   C. A LIST OF ALL FOUNDATION AND STATE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES BY  CAMPUS,
 DEPARTMENT  AND JOB LOCATION, AND THE AMOUNT SPENT BY CAMPUS, DEPARTMENT
 AND JOB LOCATION WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANNUAL EMPLOYEE SALARIES  OR  OTHER
 COMPENSATION,  EMPLOYEE  JOB  TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS AND EMPLOYEE BENE-
 FITS.
   § 3. The reports required in sections one and two of this act may  not
 disclose  the  following  information that: (a) is specifically exempted
 from disclosure by state or federal  statute;  (b)  if  disclosed  would
 constitute  an  unwarranted  invasion  of  personal  privacy  under  the
 provisions of subdivision 2 of section 89 of the  public  officers  law;
 (c)  if  disclosed  would  impair present or imminent contract awards or
 collective bargaining negotiations; (d) are trade secrets or are submit-
 ted to an entity by a commercial enterprise or derived from  information
 obtained from a commercial enterprise and which if disclosed would cause
 substantial  injury  to  the  competitive position of the subject enter-
 prise; (e) are records of an entity relating  to  charitable  donors  or
 prospective donors, including but not limited to the fund-raising strat-
 egies  of  agencies  identified  in  paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 3 of
 section 86 of the public officers law, provided that records relating to
 fund-raising strategies would, if disclosed, impair the ability of those
 entities to attract or gain donations, and  provided  further  that  the
 name of any donor and the amount of donation made by such donor shall be
 subject  to  disclosure if such donor, or any entity in which such donor
 has a substantial interest, seeks to transact business, or does transact
 business, with the entity to which the donation  is  made  within  three
 years  of  the date of such donation; and (f) are academic or scientific
 research or research-related records, including any  draft,  preliminary
 or  unfunded grant or contract document, whether sponsored by the entity
 itself or in conjunction with a third party, or records relating to  the
 entity's  intellectual  property,  which,  if disclosed, would adversely
 affect license, patent, copyright or other rights of  the  entity.  This
 section shall not permit an entity to withhold records or portions ther-
 eof  pertaining  to  the  name,  title, expenditure, source or amount of
 public funding relating to such research or intellectual property.
   § 4.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  supersede  the
 provisions of chapter 10 of the laws of 2006.
   § 5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.

co-Sponsors

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5929
Current Committee:: Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§359 & 6233, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S5797
2013-2014: S2224, A7554
2015-2016: S19, A5379
2019-2020: S6275, A4367
2021-2022: S3540, A9617
2023-2024: S6863, A9570

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2214B

SPONSOR: LAVALLE
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
reporting requirements of the state university of New York and city
university of New York

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to require the State and City universities
of New York to produce an annual report to be published online which
would disclose their financial records, including vendors, employees and
general accounting information for any research foundations which are
owned and operated by public colleges and community colleges.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Amends section 359 of the education law, adding subdivision 6 requiring
the State University of New York to produce an annual report regarding
their financial information. Amends section 6233 of the education law
requiring the City University of New York to produce the same report.

Adds a section defining exemptions that we do not have to be included in
disclosure reports.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Freedom of Information Law has played a crucial role in opening up
the operations of government agencies to public discussion and report-
ing. This has increased accountability and responsiveness of government
agencies.

However, the current definition of agencies covered by the FOIL law
leaves out certain types of agencies that are technically not agencies
of state or local government. These entities are often incorporated as
not for profit corporations or limited liability corporations, but oper-
ate in effect as subsidiaries of state agencies. For example the SUNY
Research Foundation is incorporated as a not for profit but operates as
an extensions of SUNY and is controlled by SUNY officials. The Research
Foundation describes itself as "the organization responsible for manag-
ing research grants and other sponsored programs for SUNY." Yet corpo-
rations of this type often refuse to disclose information to the press
and the public on the basis that they are not state agencies as defined
in the law.

This bill proposes that these corporations would have to disclose their
finances publically each year online. These organizations spend millions
of dollars of funds that were received by grants or donations that were
intended to further the public purpose of their affiliated state agency.
The shell of a separate corporate entity should not be used as an excuse
to deny public access to information about how they use these funds.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2015-16 S.19B/A.5379B;
2013-14 S.2224B/A.7554B;
2011-12 S.5797A/A.7789E

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2214--B
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LAVALLE,  ORTT, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investi-
   gations  and  Government  Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Investigations  and  Government
   Operations  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to reporting requirements
   of the state university of New York and city university of New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 359 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE TRUSTEES OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE, ON
 OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE  RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION  OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT OF
 STATE-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS  FOUNDATIONS
 AND  THEIR SUBSIDIARIES, IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE CHAN-
 CELLOR. THE ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE  POSTED
 PUBLICLY ON THE WEBSITE OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE
 READABLE  FORMAT  BY  NOVEMBER  FIRST  OF  EACH  YEAR. THE REPORTS SHALL
 INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL APPLICABLE REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY  ACCEPTED  ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES  AS  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION TWO OF THE STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B. A LIST OF ALL CONTRACTS, INCLUDING AMOUNT, PURPOSE AND  IDENTIFYING
 VENDOR INFORMATION OF EACH CONTRACT; AND
   C.  A LIST OF ALL FOUNDATION AND STATE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES BY CAMPUS,
 DEPARTMENT AND JOB LOCATION, AND THE AMOUNT SPENT BY CAMPUS,  DEPARTMENT
 AND  JOB  LOCATION WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANNUAL EMPLOYEE SALARIES OR OTHER
 COMPENSATION, EMPLOYEE JOB TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS  AND  EMPLOYEE  BENE-
 FITS.

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07873-05-8

 S. 2214--B                          2
 
   §  2.  Section  6233  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  THE  TRUSTEES OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK SHALL REQUIRE, ON
 OR BEFORE NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR, AN ANNUAL REPORT OF THE  RESEARCH
 FOUNDATION  OF  THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, AND AN ANNUAL REPORT OF
 SENIOR COLLEGES' AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES' CAMPUS  FOUNDATIONS  AND  THEIR
 SUBSIDIARIES,  IN A STANDARDIZED FORMAT DEVELOPED BY THE CHANCELLOR. THE
 ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE POSTED PUBLICLY  ON
 THE  WEBSITE  OF  THE  CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN A MACHINE READABLE
 FORMAT, BY NOVEMBER FIRST OF EACH YEAR. THE REPORTS SHALL  INCLUDE,  BUT
 NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   A. FINANCIAL REPORTS, INCLUDING: AUDITED FINANCIALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 ALL  APPLICABLE  REGULATIONS AND FOLLOWING GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING
 PRINCIPLES AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION  TWO  OF  THE  STATE
 FINANCE LAW, AND ANY LONG-TERM LIABILITIES;
   B.  A LIST OF ALL CONTRACTS, INCLUDING AMOUNT, PURPOSE AND IDENTIFYING
 VENDOR INFORMATION OF EACH CONTRACT; AND
   C. A LIST OF ALL FOUNDATION AND STATE UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES BY  CAMPUS,
 DEPARTMENT  AND JOB LOCATION, AND THE AMOUNT SPENT BY CAMPUS, DEPARTMENT
 AND JOB LOCATION WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ANNUAL EMPLOYEE SALARIES  OR  OTHER
 COMPENSATION,  EMPLOYEE  JOB  TITLES AND DESCRIPTIONS AND EMPLOYEE BENE-
 FITS.
   § 3. The reports required in sections one and two of this act may  not
 disclose  the  following  information that: (a) is specifically exempted
 from disclosure by state or federal  statute;  (b)  if  disclosed  would
 constitute  an  unwarranted  invasion  of  personal  privacy  under  the
 provisions of subdivision 2 of section 89 of the  public  officers  law;
 (c)  if  disclosed  would  impair present or imminent contract awards or
 collective bargaining negotiations; (d) are trade secrets or are submit-
 ted to an entity by a commercial enterprise or derived from  information
 obtained from a commercial enterprise and which if disclosed would cause
 substantial  injury  to  the  competitive position of the subject enter-
 prise; (e) are records of an entity relating  to  charitable  donors  or
 prospective donors, including but not limited to the fund-raising strat-
 egies  of  agencies  identified  in  subdivision  3 of section 86 of the
 public officers law, provided  that  records  relating  to  fund-raising
 strategies  would, if disclosed, impair the ability of those entities to
 attract or gain donations, and provided further that  the  name  of  any
 donor  and the amount of donation made by such donor shall be subject to
 disclosure if such donor, or any  entity  in  which  such  donor  has  a
 substantial interest, seeks to transact business, or does transact busi-
 ness,  with  the entity to which the donation is made within three years
 of the date of  such  donation;  and  (f)  are  academic  or  scientific
 research  or  research-related records, including any draft, preliminary
 or unfunded grant or contract document, whether sponsored by the  entity
 itself  or in conjunction with a third party, or records relating to the
 entity's intellectual property, which,  if  disclosed,  would  adversely
 affect  license,  patent,  copyright or other rights of the entity. This
 section shall not permit an entity to withhold records or portions ther-
 eof pertaining to the name, title,  expenditure,  source  or  amount  of
 public funding relating to such research or intellectual property.
   §  4.  Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  construed  to  supersede the
 provisions of chapter 10 of the laws of 2006.
   § 5. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.

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Senate Bill S2214B

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2017-S2214 - Details

2017-S2214 - Summary

2017-S2214 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2214 - Bill Text download pdf

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2017-S2214A - Details

2017-S2214A - Summary

2017-S2214A - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2214A - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2214B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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