A 1353: Requires certain bills which establish a commission, task force, board, council or any similar body shall have not less than one position appointed by each of the legislative leaders.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1353 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BARCLAY, BRABENEC, BLANKENBUSH, SMITH, MIKULIN, SMULLEN, MILLER, MANKTELOW, WALSH, JENSEN, GALLAHAN, LEMONDES, DeSTE- FANO, SIMPSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DiPIETRO, FITZPATRICK, FRIEND, HAWLEY, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to bills containing provisions requiring appointments to be made by the legislative lead- ers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 52-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 52-a. Requirements with respect to bills containing provisions 4 requiring appointments to be made by the legislature. 1. For purposes 5 of this section, the term "legislative leaders" shall mean the temporary 6 president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority lead- 7 er of the senate and the minority leader of the assembly. 8 2. Any bill which establishes a commission, task force, board, coun- 9 cil, or similar body, and which requires that a number of the members on 10 such commission, task force, board, council, or similar body receive 11 their appointments from the legislature, shall have not less than one 12 member appointed by each of the legislative leaders. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03927-01-5