N.Y. Legislative Law Section 30
Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries

The committees and their secretaries shall have access at all reasonable times to offices of state departments, commissions, boards, bureaus and offices, to institutions and to all state authorities and public works of the state and they may, for the purpose of obtaining information as to the method of operation, general condition, management and needs thereof, examine the books, papers and public records therein. Notwithstanding any other provision of law such state departments, commissions, boards, bureaus, offices, state authorities and institutions shall through their proper officers or deputies furnish to such committees such data, information or statements as may be necessary for the proper exercise of their powers and duties and for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this article. The finance and ways and means committee in exercising the powers and performing the duties prescribed by this article may act jointly, or separately, as they deem advisable.

Source: Section 30 — Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LEG/30 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Nov. 1, 2025).

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Exemption of members and officers from arrest 3
Expulsion of members 4
Contempts of either house 5
Compensation of members 5–A
Allowances for member serving as an officer of either house of the legislature or in a special capacity therein 5–B
Limit on outside earned income by members 6
Officers and employees of the senate 7
Officers and employees of the assembly 7–A
Legislative library, librarian and assistants 7–B
Legislative emergency health station 7–C
Member of assembly defined 7–D
Employees of the legislature 7–E
Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing 7–F
Assembly historian 7–G
Senate historian 8
Appointments to be filed with the comptroller 9
Additional employees 10
Compensation of officers and employees 11
Designation of payrolls as annual, session or temporary 12
Authorization of expenditures 15
Duties of secretary and clerk 16
Supplies furnished by secretary and clerk 17
Accountability of secretary and clerk to comptroller 18
Duties of postmasters and assistants 19
Duties of official stenographers 20
Detail of officers and employees for special duties 21
Limitation of legislative expenses 22
Custody of legislative papers and documents 22–A
Reproduction and destruction of certain records, books and papers of the senate 22–B
Destruction and reproductions of assembly books and records 23
Appropriation bills, how referred 24
Legislative bill drafting commission 25
Duties of the commission 27
Appointment of secretaries of finance and ways and means committees 28
Compensation, expenses, employees 29
Sub-committees of finance and ways and means committees 30
Duties of finance and ways and means committees and secretaries 31
Appearances and inquiries in respect to the budget 32
Representation of certain legislative committees during revision of the budget 32–A
Budget 33
Exercise of certain statutory powers during a vacancy in office of the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly
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Nov. 1, 2025

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

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