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Senate Bill S4621

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to file a report detailing the amount of money spent on outside consultants

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2021-S4621 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1269-e, Pub Auth L

2021-S4621 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to file a report detailing the amount of money spent on outside consultants each quarter to the legislature.

2021-S4621 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4621 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4621
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
   metropolitan transportation authority to file a report  detailing  the
   amount of money spent on outside consultants

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph  of  section  1269-e  of  the  public
 authorities  law,  as added by section 13 of part H of chapter 25 of the
 laws of 2009, is amended and a new subparagraph B is added  to  read  as
 follows:
   A. The authority shall submit to the governor, the temporary president
 of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, no later than thirty days
 following the submission of the annual independent audit report pursuant
 to section twenty-eight hundred two of this chapter, a complete detailed
 report  or  reports  setting  forth,  to the extent such matters are not
 fully addressed in the annual independent audit report, the following:
   B. THE AUTHORITY SHALL SUBMIT TO THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT
 OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY  A  REPORT  DETAILING  THE
 AMOUNT  OF  MONEY SPENT ON OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 TO RESEARCH FIRMS OR LAW FIRMS. SUCH REPORT SHALL BE FILED QUARTERLY  ON
 OR  BEFORE  THE  FIRST OF THE MONTH SUCCEEDING THE END OF THE QUARTER IN
 WHICH SUCH MONEY WAS SPENT.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09309-01-1

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