§ 100-a. Information on state agencies pertaining to persons subjected
to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold
policy-making positions. 1. As used in this section "agency" means:

(a) any state department, board, bureau, division, council, committee,
commission, or office;

(b) any other similar state public organization established pursuant
to state statutes, executive order, or other executive action for the
exercise of any function of state government and to which members are
appointed or elected; and

(c) any public authority or public benefit corporation a majority of
whose members are appointed by the governor or serve as members by
virtue of holding state offices to which they were appointed by the
governor, or any combination thereof.

2. "Agency" does not include:

(a) any informal advisory organization established exclusively by a
state agency to advise a commissioner, secretary, or other director of
that agency on an informal basis;

(b) the state legislature; and

(c) any local government or subdivision or entity thereof.

3. The secretary of state shall maintain a compilation of persons
subjected to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who
hold policy-making positions at all state agencies, including state
agencies established after the effective date of this section. Such
compilation shall identify by agency the persons subjected to section
seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making
positions, the length of time such positions have been held, and a
representation of policy-making positions at such agency held by women
compared to policy-making positions held by men. The secretary of state
shall keep such inventory in a public record available for inspection,
and updated annually on the department of state website.

4. Each agency shall annually on or before January first, submit to
the secretary of state all information required pursuant to this section
in a manner specified by the secretary of state to facilitate the
publication requirements of this section.

5. For the purposes of this section, "persons subjected to section
seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making
decisions" shall include, but not be limited to, a commissioner, a
superintendent, an executive director, and other chief executive
officers, positions appointed by the governor, as well as the
appointments of the aforementioned whose function is essential to the
policy-making processes of such agency, and any other position whose
function is essential to the policy-making processes of such agency.