Requires the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly to provide each member of their respective chamber with any reports issued to them.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A1533
SPONSOR: Brown K TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring the tempo-
rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly to provide
each member of their respective chamber with any reports issued to them
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Requires the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
assembly to provide each member of their respective chamber with any
reports issued to them.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Section 6 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 9.
Section 2: Section 7 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
undesignated paragraph.
Section 3: Identifies effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
Often state agencies are required to create, reports and plans and the
legislature is unaware that the report or plan has been issued. This
bill would require that any report issued by any state agency be auto-
matically forwarded to the temporary president of the senate and the
speaker of the assembly for the purpose of distributing the report elec-
tronically to the Members of the Legislature forthwith.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: A.10277
2023-24: A.05537
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1533
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to requiring the tempo-
rary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly to
provide each member of their respective chamber with any reports
issued to them
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Whenever the temporary president of the senate is issued a report
4 from any agency, authority, board, bureau, commission, corporation,
5 department, division, office or task force or any other subdivision of
6 the state or federal government or a county, city, town or village
7 government within the state, the temporary president of the senate shall
8 electronically distribute such report to each member of the senate.
9 § 2. Section 7 of the legislative law is amended by adding a new
10 undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
11 Whenever the speaker of the assembly is issued a report from any agen-
12 cy, authority, board, bureau, commission, corporation, department, divi-
13 sion, office or task force or any other subdivision of the state or
14 federal government or a county, city, town or village government within
15 the state, the speaker of the assembly shall electronically distribute
16 such report to each member of the assembly.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03079-01-5
