S 5144: Requires the chair and commissioners of the state liquor authority to file an annual statement of financial disclosure pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5144 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 19, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern- ment Operations AN ACT to amend the alcoholic beverage control law, in relation to requiring the chair and commissioners of the state liquor authority to file certain disclosures The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 11 of the alcoholic beverage control law, as 2 amended by section 2 of part E of chapter 57 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 § 11. Appointment of authority. The members of the authority shall be 5 appointed by the governor by and with the advice and consent of the 6 senate. Not more than two members of the authority shall belong to the 7 same political party. The [chairman] chair of the state alcoholic bever- 8 age control board heretofore appointed and designated by the governor 9 and the remaining members of such board heretofore appointed by the 10 governor shall continue to serve as [chairman] chair and members of the 11 authority until the expiration of the respective terms for which they 12 were appointed. Upon the expiration of such respective terms the 13 successors of such [chairman] chair and members shall be appointed to 14 serve for a term of three years each and until their successors have 15 been appointed and qualified. The commissioners, other than the [chair- 16 man] chair shall, when performing the work of the authority, be compen- 17 sated at a rate of two hundred sixty dollars per day, together with an 18 allowance for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of 19 their duties. The [chairman] chair shall receive an annual salary estab- 20 lished in section one hundred sixty-nine of the executive law. Notwith- 21 standing any provision of law to the contrary, the chair and each 22 commissioner shall be required to file an annual statement of financial 23 disclosure pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public officers 24 law. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06064-01-5