(a) improving administration and operations in state government;
  (b) increasing efficiency, economy and effectiveness  by  measures  of
consolidation and reorganization; and
  (c) improving the delivery of services and enhancing accountability by
organizational changes.
  3.  The commission may employ and at pleasure remove such personnel as
it may deem necessary for the performance of the commission's  functions
and  fix their compensation within the amount appropriated therefor. The
commission may hold public and private hearings and otherwise  have  all
of the powers of a legislative committee under this chapter. The members
of  the  commission  shall  receive  no compensation for their services,
except as provided pursuant to section five-a of this chapter, but shall
be  allowed  their  actual  and  necessary  expenses  incurred  in   the
performance of their duties hereunder.
  4.  Employees of the commission shall be considered to be employees of
the legislature for all purposes.
  5. The commission may  request  and  shall  receive  from  any  court,
department,  division,  board,  or  bureau, commission, or agency of the
state, recommendations as to the administration,  operating  guidelines,
procedures,  workload  output,  and  incentive and disincentive workload
measurements which, if monitored,  would  provide  accurate  indications
quantitatively  and qualitatively of the performance and cost efficiency
of its activities and/or programs, and such assistance and data as  will
enable  the  commission  properly  to  carry  out  its powers and duties
hereunder.
  6. The commission is hereby authorized and empowered to make and  sign
any  agreements,  and  to do and perform any acts that may be necessary,
desirable or proper to carry out the purposes  and  objectives  of  this
section.
  * NB Repealed June 30, 2024
Structure New York Laws
Article 5-A - Legislative Commissions
83 - Council on Health Care Financing; Continued.
83-A - Legislative Commission on Critical Transportation Choices.
83-B - Legislative Commission on Dairy Industry Development.
83-C - Legislative Commission on Public Management Systems.
83-E - Legislative Commission on Science and Technology.
83-F - Legislative Commission on Skills Development and Career Education.
83-G - Legislative Commission on Solid Waste Management.
83-H - Legislative Commission on State-Local Relations.
83-I - Legislative Commission on the Development of Rural Resources.
83-K - Legislative Commission on Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes.
83-L - Legislative Commission on Water Resource Needs of New York State and Long Island.
83-M - Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment.
83-N - Legislative Commission on the Future of the Long Island Power Authority.