N.Y. Assembly Rules Rule 4, § 2: Meetings of standing committees

§ 2. Meetings of standing committees. a. Meetings of standing

committees. Standing committees shall hold meetings at a regular weekly

time and day as scheduled by the committee chairperson in consultation

with the committee coordinators, as designated by the Speaker, and such

set time shall be posted on the Assembly committee board and Assembly

Internet site. The weekly committee schedule shall be available the

preceding Thursday, as provided for in subdivision b of this section. If

on the first Tuesday of any month of the regular legislative session,

excluding January, a standing committee shall have 50 or more bills

pending committee action, such committee shall be required to meet at

least once during such month to consider legislation.

b. Each chairperson of a standing committee shall, by the Thursday of

the week preceding, furnish to the Speaker, the Majority and Minority

Leaders, and make available to each member of such committee, a copy of

the agenda of all meetings scheduled for the following week, together

with a copy of the introducer's memorandum for each bill listed on such

agenda. Further, each chairperson shall furnish to the Speaker, the

Majority and Minority Leaders and to the ranking minority member of such

committee, a list of all bills referred to such committee to date

together with the above agenda and memoranda. In addition, copies of

such agenda shall be made available not later than such Thursday to

representatives of the news media and to the general public by the

filing thereof with the Legislative Library and the Assembly Public

Information Office. The notice provisions of this subdivision and of

subdivision c shall not apply to the Committee on Rules. Nothing

contained in this subdivision shall be deemed to waive any of the

provisions of article seven of the Public Officers Law known as the

"Open Meetings Law".

c. The chairperson of a standing committee may call a special meeting

or add or delete items on the agenda of a regular meeting by giving

twenty-four hour notice of the agenda of such special meeting or such

additions or deletions in the same manner and to the same extent as

notice of agenda for regular meetings, provided, however, that such

notice shall not be required if a message of necessity has been received

from the governor in connection with the bill under consideration or the

ranking minority member of the committee consents thereto.

d. All standing committee meetings shall be open to representatives of

the news media and general public, except that the committee, upon a

two-thirds vote of the members of the committee present or upon a

majority vote of the total membership of the committee, whichever is the

greater, may hold an executive session at which only members of such

committee shall be in attendance. The subjects to be acted upon at the

executive session shall be limited to the subjects enumerated in section

one hundred five of the Public Officers Law. No bill shall be voted upon

at such executive session. No committee shall vote to report any bill

unless a majority of all the members thereof is actually present. The

affirmative vote of a majority of all the members appointed to a

standing committee shall be necessary to every report. The negative vote

of such a majority shall be necessary to defeat a bill in committee. No

proxy vote shall be valid.

e. At the conclusion of a committee meeting the committee clerk of

such committee shall deliver to the Office of Journal Operations a roll

call on each of the bills considered by the committee and on each vote

to hold an executive session indicating the attendance of the members

and the ayes and nays. Such roll call shall be reproduced not later than

24 hours after transmittal to such Office and shall be made available

for inspection by the general public and representatives of the news

media in the Assembly Public Information Office.

f. The report of a committee upon any matter referred to it other than

a bill, may include a brief statement of the opinion of any member or

members of the committee voting in either the majority or minority.