S2483-2013 - NY Senate Open Legislation - Requires agency payroll records be made available

Requires agency payroll records be made available.

Sponsor: LANZA
Law Section: Public Officers Law / Law: Amd S87, Pub Off L

S2483-2013 Actions

May 6, 2013: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
May 1, 2013: 2ND REPORT CAL.
Apr 30, 2013: 1ST REPORT CAL.481
Jan 17, 2013: REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

S2483-2013 Meetings

Investigations and Government Operations: Apr 30, 2013

S2483-2013 Calendars

Active List: May 7, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 1, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 6, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 7, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 8, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 20, 2013 , Floor Calendar: May 21, 2013

S2483-2013 Votes

VOTE: COMMITTEE VOTE: - Investigations and Government Operations - Apr 30, 2013

Ayes (9): Marcellino, Carlucci, Golden, Nozzolio, O'Mara, Zeldin, Hoylman, Diaz, Squadron

S2483-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S2483

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend public officers law, in relation to making agency payroll
records available

PURPOSE:
To ensure that the names, titles, salaries and public office addresses
of public employees are clearly accessible to the public.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one amends subdivision three of section eighty-seven of the
public officers law to clarify that notwithstanding any other
provision in article six, each agency shall maintain and make
available the records specified in subdivision three.

Section two provides that that this act shall take effect on the
sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.

JUSTIFICATION:

Section 87(3)(b) of FOIL already directs agencies to maintain a
"record setting forth the name, public office address, title and
salary of every officer or employee of the agency." In fact, this
requirement has been in place for more than thirty years. While
agencies have routinely disclosed this information, explicitly
stating that the records must be made available will eliminate any
questions regarding disclosure and ensure that the records are
clearly accessible to the public.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2012: S.4505 - Passed Senate/A.6.995 - Referred to Governmental
Operations
2011: S.4505 - Referred to Investigations/A.6995 -
Referred to Governmental Operations

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become law.

S2483-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
                                          2483
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 17, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern
 ment Operations
 

AN ACT to amend public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  making  agency
 payroll records available
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 87 of the
 public officers law, as added by chapter 933 of the  laws  of  1977,  is
 amended to read as follows:

 [Each] NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION IN THIS ARTICLE, EACH agen
 cy shall maintain AND MAKE AVAILABLE:

 

S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04907-01-3

S2483-2013: Requires agency payroll records be made available