NY Legis L § 25 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LEG - Legislative Article 2 - Members, Officers and Employees of the Legislature 25 - Duties of the Commission.

§ 25. Duties of the commission. The commission shall:1.  Draft  or  aid  in  drafting  or  examine  legislative  bills  and   resolutions  and  amendments  thereto,  upon  request  of  a  member  or   committee of either house of the legislature;2.  Advise  as  to  the  constitutionality,  consistency  or effect of   proposed legislation upon request of a member  or  committee  of  either   house of the legislature;3.  Make  researches  and  examinations  as to any subject of proposed   legislation upon request of either house or of  a  committee  of  either   house of the legislature;4. Expend monies made available to the commission by appropriation for   the  employment  of  personnel,  including  temporary  services, and for   expenses of  maintenance  and  operation,  including  labor,  materials,   office   supplies,   communication  equipment,  furniture,  alterations,   repairs, furnishings, purchase of books, development  and  operation  of   systems  in  support  of the legislature and traveling expenses, and for   services and expenses  related  to  the  legislative  printing  for  the   legislature  contract  pursuant  to  section  four of the New York State   printing and public  documents  law,  including  with  respect  to  such   contract the printing of bills, additional copies of bills, the printing   and  binding  of  session  laws and the classification of appropriations   (black book),  the  senate  and  assembly  journals  and  certain  other   miscellaneous documents and messages set forth in such section four; and   for   services  and  expenses  incurred  in  the  installation,  rental,   development, maintenance and operation of  centralized  data  processing   systems,  programs  and  equipment  for  the  creation  of  a  data bank   containing  the  official  statutes  of  the  state  and   miscellaneous   information,  including,  but  not limited to, the text of the rules and   regulations of state agencies as filed with the secretary of  state  for   use  in  the  preparation  and  composition  of  bills;  preparation and   composition of  calendars,  journals,  session  laws  and  miscellaneous   documents;  the  operation  of  a  bill  status retrieval system for the   senate and assembly; and  the  development  of  a  statutory  and  other   miscellaneous information retrieval system for the legislature and other   entities;  and for services and expenses related to the contract for the   printing,  publication  and  distribution  of  the  State  of  New  York   Legislative  Digest  pursuant  to  section  five  of  the New York state   printing and public documents law. Such funds  shall  be  expended  upon   approval of the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the   assembly or their respective designees, notwithstanding and unrestricted   by  the provisions of any general or special law. All products purchased   shall be recycled products, which meet contract  specifications,  unless   the  only  available  product  does  not  contain  recycled content, and   provided that the cost of the recycled product does not  exceed  a  cost   premium  of  ten  percent above the cost of a comparable product that is   not a recycled product or, if at least fifty percent  of  the  secondary   materials utilized in the manufacture of that product are generated from   the  waste  stream  in  New York state, the cost of the recycled product   does not exceed a cost premium of fifteen percent above the  cost  of  a   comparable  product  that is not a recycled product.  For the purpose of   this  section  and  until  July  first,  nineteen  hundred   ninety-six,   "recycled  product"  shall  mean any product which has been manufactured   from secondary materials, as defined in subdivision one of  section  two   hundred  sixty-one  of the economic development law, and meets secondary   material content requirements adopted by the office of general  services   under  subdivision one of section one hundred seventy-seven of the state   finance law for products available to the senate  under  state  contract   or, if no such contract for such product is available, any product which    meets  the  secondary  material  content  requirements  adopted  by  the   secretary of the senate, or such other  officers  or  employees  of  the   senate as the temporary president of the senate shall designate, and the   clerk  of  the  assembly,  or  such  other  officers or employees as the   speaker of the assembly shall designate, respectively, with respect to a   specific commodity procurement by such entity. On and after July  first,   nineteen  hundred  ninety-six,  "recycled  product"  shall mean, for the   purposes of this section, any product which has been  manufactured  from   secondary  materials,  as  defined  in  subdivision  one  of section two   hundred sixty-one of the economic development law, and which  meets  the   requirements  of subdivision two of section 27-0717 of the environmental   conservation law and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.  Whenever   purchasing or  causing  the  purchase  of  printing  on  recycled  paper   pursuant  to  this  section,  the secretary of the senate, or such other   officers or employees of the senate as the temporary  president  of  the   senate  shall  designate,  and  the clerk of the assembly, or such other   officers or employees as the speaker of the  assembly  shall  designate,   respectively, shall require the printed material to contain the official   state  recycling  emblem  established  pursuant  to  subdivision  two of   section 27-0717 of the environmental conservation  law  and  regulations   promulgated  pursuant  thereto  if  such  paper has been approved by the   department of environmental conservation as satisfying the  requirements   of  such  statute  and  regulations,  or,  if such paper has not been so   approved, require the printed material to include  a  printed  statement   which  indicates  the  percentages  of  pre-consumer  and  post-consumer   recycled material content of such paper.