N.Y. EXC Law § 100-A

§ 100-a. Information on state agencies pertaining to persons subjected\nto section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold\npolicy-making positions. 1. As used in this section "agency" means:\n (a) any state department, board, bureau, division, council, committee,\ncommission, or office;\n (b) any other similar state public organization established pursuant\nto state statutes, executive order, or other executive action for the\nexercise of any function of state government and to which members are\nappointed or elected; and\n (c) any public authority or public benefit corporation a majority of\nwhose members are appointed by the governor or serve as members by\nvirtue of holding state offices to which they were appointed by the\ngovernor, or any combination thereof.\n 2. "Agency" does not include:\n (a) any informal advisory organization established exclusively by a\nstate agency to advise a commissioner, secretary, or other director of\nthat agency on an informal basis;\n (b) the state legislature; and\n (c) any local government or subdivision or entity thereof.\n 3. The secretary of state shall maintain a compilation of persons\nsubjected to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law and who\nhold policy-making positions at all state agencies, including state\nagencies established after the effective date of this section. Such\ncompilation shall identify by agency the persons subjected to section\nseventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making\npositions, the length of time such positions have been held, and a\nrepresentation of policy-making positions at such agency held by women\ncompared to policy-making positions held by men. The secretary of state\nshall keep such inventory in a public record available for inspection,\nand updated annually on the department of state website.\n 4. Each agency shall annually on or before January first, submit to\nthe secretary of state all information required pursuant to this section\nin a manner specified by the secretary of state to facilitate the\npublication requirements of this section.\n 5. For the purposes of this section, "persons subjected to section\nseventy-three-a of the public officers law and who hold policy-making\ndecisions" shall include, but not be limited to, a commissioner, a\nsuperintendent, an executive director, and other chief executive\nofficers, positions appointed by the governor, as well as the\nappointments of the aforementioned whose function is essential to the\npolicy-making processes of such agency, and any other position whose\nfunction is essential to the policy-making processes of such agency.\n