Senate Bill S349

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to expanding the definition of agency

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Investigations And Government Operations Committee

  • 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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2025-S349 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Investigations And Government Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §86, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4775
2019-2020: S5263
2021-2022: S1667
2023-2024: S3406

2025-S349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to expanding the definition of agency; includes entities created by an agency or that are governed by a board of directors or similar body a majority of which is designated by one or more state or local government officials in the definition of agency under the public officers law.

2025-S349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    349
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Investigations
   and Government Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public officers law, in relation to expanding the
   definition of agency

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 3 of section 86 of the public officers law, as
 added by chapter 933 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   3. "Agency" means any state or municipal  department,  board,  bureau,
 division,  commission,  committee, public authority, public corporation,
 council, office or other governmental entity performing  a  governmental
 or  proprietary function for the state or any one or more municipalities
 thereof, AS WELL AS ENTITIES CREATED BY AN AGENCY AND THAT ARE  GOVERNED
 BY  A  BOARD  OF DIRECTORS OR SIMILAR BODY A MAJORITY OF WHICH IS DESIG-
 NATED BY ONE OR MORE STATE OR LOCAL  GOVERNMENT  OFFICIALS,  except  the
 judiciary or the state legislature.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01426-01-5

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