What's happening
This bill directs the Department of State to study and report on the cost, completion, and outcomes of legislative studies from the past five years.
Why it matters
Evaluates the effectiveness and follow-through of legislative studies. By examining which studies have failed to produce required reports or outputs, the bill seeks to identify gaps in accountability and ensure that legislative directives are actually being completed as intended.
Assesses the real-world impact of legislative recommendations. By tracking how many study recommendations have led to new laws, bills, rules, or regulations, the report could reveal whether the studies funded by taxpayers are resulting in meaningful policy changes or are largely inconsequential.
Examines government spending on studies for efficiency and waste. The required cost analysis provides transparency about public funds spent on legislative studies, potentially highlighting areas where resources could be saved or better allocated in the future.
Could lead to reforms in how legislative studies are commissioned and managed. The findings and recommendations from the Department of State may prompt the legislature to adopt new practices to improve the value, oversight, and outcomes of studies they authorize.
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Review State-Funded Studies
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- Referred to governmental operations
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STATE OF NEW YORK
955
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to direct the department of state to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning studies directed by the legislature to be completed
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Study. The department of state is hereby authorized and directed to conduct a study of studies directed by the legislature to be completed over the past five years. Such study shall examine, at a minimum, the following:
(a) how much all these studies have cost the state, including, but not limited to, the usual expenses paid to people conducting the studies;
(b) how many studies, if any, have failed to produce and deliver the required reports, information, or any product required to be produced by the study; and
(c) how many recommendations in these studies have become bills, laws, rules, or regulations.
§ 2. Powers. The department of state may consult with any state or local office, agency, or department and request information from any such entity that is relevant and material to the completion of this study and report.
§ 3. Report. No later than one year after the effective date of this act, the department of state shall deliver a report of the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this act to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02271-01-5
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