NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4945

Senate Bill S4945

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain reports of public authorities are published via the public authorities reporting information system

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

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Feb 14, 2025	referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

2025-S4945 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2800 & 2801, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8941
2021-2022: S1207
2023-2024: S6776

2025-S4945 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain reports of public authorities are published via the public authorities reporting information system and shall not require login credentials.

2025-S4945 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S4945

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
certain reports of public authorities are published via the public
authorities reporting information system

 
PURPOSE:

To increase transparency and accessibility to certain information that
public authorities are required to report, and make it readily available
to the public rather than the current mechanism of access that exists
today.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 and 2 Amend Sections 2800 and 2801 of the public authorities
law to require annual reports and budget reports that public authorities
are required to submit to the Authorities Budget Office to be made
available to the public on the Public Authorities Reporting Information

System (PARIS). This system currently requires a login. This bill would
enable public access.

Section 3 Sets the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

There are statutes and regulations that require this information be
reported so there is adequate oversight of public entities and authori-
ties. This will increase the accessibility of public oversight by allow-
ing unrestricted access to this information that is already required to
be reported and submitted to the Authorities Budget Office.

The role of Public Authorities and Industrial. Development Agencies is
essential to development of communities from the local to state level.
There is information in the reports ranging from financial status,
information related to the board of directors, how much debt the author-
ity maintains, revenues, expenditures and more. Therefore, if the infor-
mation must be reported in this database, it should be just as easily
accessible to the public.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S6776A Comrie/ A9477A Hyndman- Passed Senate, Died in Assembly

2022: S1207, PASSED SENATE 03/31/2022; referred to corporations, author-
ities and commissions in assembly

2021: S1207, PASSED SENATE 06/03/2021; died in assembly

2020: S8941, died in rules.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
180 Days

2025-S4945 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4945
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
   certain reports of public authorities are  published  via  the  public
   authorities reporting information system

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2800 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  THE ANNUAL REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUBLISHED VIA
 THE PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES  REPORTING  INFORMATION  SYSTEM  AND  SHALL  NOT
 REQUIRE LOGIN CREDENTIALS TO ACCESS.
   § 2. Section 2801 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  THE BUDGET REPORTS REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUBLISHED VIA
 THE PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES  REPORTING  INFORMATION  SYSTEM  AND  SHALL  NOT
 REQUIRE LOGIN CREDENTIALS TO ACCESS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06025-01-5

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