File #: Int 1062-2024    Version: * Name: Clarifying the requirement that heads of mayoral agencies advise and assist elected officials and bodies of elected officials in regard to matters under the jurisdiction of their agencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 9/26/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to clarifying the requirement that heads of mayoral agencies advise and assist elected officials and bodies of elected officials in regard to matters under the jurisdiction of their agencies.
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Justin L. Brannan, Shahana K. Hanif, Diana I. Ayala, Christopher Marte, Julie Menin, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Chris Banks, Robert F. Holden, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Keith Powers , Yusef Salaam, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Tiffany Cabán, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Gale A. Brewer, Inna Vernikov, Chi A. Ossé, Althea V. Stevens, Susan Zhuang, Shekar Krishnan, Crystal Hudson, Nantasha M. Williams, Rita C. Joseph, Alexa Avilés, Oswald Feliz, Kevin C. Riley, Julie Won, Sandy Nurse, Shaun Abreu, Mercedes Narcisse, Amanda Farías, Eric Dinowitz, Carlina Rivera , Vickie Paladino, Joseph C. Borelli, Farah N. Louis, Erik D. Bottcher, James F. Gennaro, Darlene Mealy
Council Member Sponsors: 40
Summary: This bill would amend the New York City Charter’s requirement that mayoral agencies advise and assist elected officials and bodies. This bill would ensure that the advice and assistance is provided without requiring elected officials and bodies to complete a digital or physical form or other paperwork before such advice or assistance are offered. The advice and assistance that heads of agencies provide would not require prior approval from any elected official.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1062, 2. Int. No. 1062, 3. Committee Report 9/19/24, 4. Hearing Testimony 9/19/24, 5. Hearing Transcript 9/19/24, 6. September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 7. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24

Int. No. 1062

 

By Council Members Restler, Brannan, Hanif, Ayala, Marte, Menin, Brooks-Powers, Banks, Holden, Gutiérrez, Powers, Salaam, Sanchez, Cabán, De La Rosa, Brewer, Vernikov, Ossé, Stevens, Zhuang, Krishnan, Hudson, Williams, Joseph, Avilés, Feliz, Riley, Won, Nurse, Abreu, Narcisse, Farías, Dinowitz, Rivera, Paladino, Borelli, Louis, Bottcher, Gennaro and Mealy

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to clarifying the requirement that heads of mayoral agencies advise and assist elected officials and bodies of elected officials in regard to matters under the jurisdiction of their agencies.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision b of Section 386 of the New York city charter is amended to read as follows:

  b.   Heads of mayoral agencies shall advise and assist the mayor, other elected officials and bodies of elected officials in regard to matters under the jurisdiction of their agencies. Such advice and assistance shall be rendered without any accompanying requirement that a form or other paperwork, either digital or physical, be completed as a precondition to such advice and assistance, and the provision of such advice and assistance shall not be contingent upon prior approval from any elected official.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

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