A 955: Directs the department of state to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning studies directed by the legislature to be completed.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 955 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to direct the department of state to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning studies directed by the legislature to be completed The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Study. The department of state is hereby authorized and 2 directed to conduct a study of studies directed by the legislature to be 3 completed over the past five years. Such study shall examine, at a mini- 4 mum, the following: 5 (a) how much all these studies have cost the state, including, but not 6 limited to, the usual expenses paid to people conducting the studies; 7 (b) how many studies, if any, have failed to produce and deliver the 8 required reports, information, or any product required to be produced by 9 the study; and 10 (c) how many recommendations in these studies have become bills, laws, 11 rules, or regulations. 12 § 2. Powers. The department of state may consult with any state or 13 local office, agency, or department and request information from any 14 such entity that is relevant and material to the completion of this 15 study and report. 16 § 3. Report. No later than one year after the effective date of this 17 act, the department of state shall deliver a report of the findings of 18 the study conducted pursuant to section one of this act to the governor, 19 the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly. 20 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02271-01-5