S 2317: Prevents certain elected officials from being a member of an agency or industrial development authority.
The bill aims to prevent elected officials from serving on certain agencies and industrial development authorities. Elected officials are prohibited from serving on these boards, with the exception of industrial development agencies with a board composed entirely of elected officials from the municipality that chartered the agency. The bill also establishes a new public benefit corporation for the city of Troy and creates a similar corporation for the city of Auburn. These corporations will have boards consisting of appointed members, including representatives from business, industry, labor, and local government. Members of these boards will not receive compensation but will be entitled to reimbursement for expenses incurred while serving on the board. The bill also sets a ten-year lifespan for the Auburn industrial development authority, after which its assets will pass to the city.
| Jun. 04, 2026 | referred to local governments |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY |
| Jun. 04, 2026 | PASSED SENATE |
| May. 21, 2026 | ADVANCED TO THIRD READING |
| May. 20, 2026 | 2ND REPORT CAL. |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2317 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, KRUEGER, MATTERA, MAYER, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to preventing certain elected officials from being a member of an agency; and to repeal subdivision 4 of section 856 of such law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 856 of the general municipal law 2 is REPEALED and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 3 4. No member of an agency shall be an elected official of the munici- 4 pality nor shall any member of an agency be an elected official of any 5 county, city, town, or village within the county in which the agency is 6 located. Where an individual who currently serves as a member of an 7 agency would be ineligible to serve until their term as a member of an 8 agency has expired, the governing body of the municipality or appointing 9 authority of the agency shall appoint new members of the agency as 10 provided in subdivision two of this section where an individual was no 11 longer able to serve in such a capacity. This subdivision shall not 12 apply to any elected officials required to serve on an industrial devel- 13 opment agency under title two of this article. This subdivision shall 14 not apply to any industrial development agency that has a board entirely 15 composed of elected officials from the municipality that chartered such 16 industrial development agency. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01283-01-5