Senate Bill S6580

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes the New York state commission on economic inequality, equal opportunity, and competitiveness

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S6580 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S3177
2023-2024: S4141

2019-S6580 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the New York state commission on economic inequality, equal opportunity, and competitiveness; provides such commission shall investigate, evaluate and make recommendations concerning how to work toward reducing economic inequality, eliminating poverty, achieving equal opportunity and full employment, and boosting economic competitiveness and growth.

2019-S6580 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6580 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6580
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 17, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT establishing the New York state commission on  economic  inequal-
   ity, equal opportunity, and competitiveness
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. It shall be  the  policy  of  New  York
 state  to work toward reducing economic inequality, eliminating poverty,
 achieving equal opportunity and full employment, and  boosting  economic
 competitiveness  and growth for the purpose of justice, equality, democ-
 racy, fairness, the general welfare, and strengthening  the  economy  of
 New York state.
   §  2.  A temporary state commission, to be known as the New York state
 commission on economic inequality, equal opportunity,  and  competitive-
 ness,  is  hereby created to investigate, evaluate, and make recommenda-
 tions concerning how to work toward, in New York state, reducing econom-
 ic inequality, eliminating poverty, achieving equal opportunity and full
 employment, and boosting economic competitiveness and growth.
   § 3. (a) The commission shall consist  of  seventeen  members,  to  be
 appointed as follows:  nine members to be appointed by the governor, one
 of  whom shall be the chair; three members to be appointed by the tempo-
 rary president of the senate; one member appointed by the senate minori-
 ty leader; three members appointed by the speaker of the  assembly;  and
 one member appointed by the assembly minority leader.
   (b)  The  members  of the commission shall receive no compensation for
 their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
 incurred in the performance of their duties under this act. The  commis-
 sion  may  employ  and  at pleasure remove such personnel as it may deem
 necessary for the performance of its functions  and  fix  their  compen-
 sation within the amounts made available by appropriation therefor.
   § 4. The commission shall investigate:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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