2006 New York Code - Testimony Before Legislative Committees.

 
    § 60. Testimony before legislative committees. A legislative committee
  may require the attendance of witnesses in this state whom the committee
  may  wish  to  examine, or may issue a commission for the examination of
  witnesses who are out of the state or unable to attend the committee  or
  excused  from  attendance,  which commission if directed by the house or
  legislature by which the committee is appointed may be  executed  during
  the  recess  of the legislature. A commission issued as provided by this
  section shall be in the form used in the courts of record of this  state
  and shall be executed in like manner. Unless otherwise instructed by the
  committee  appointing  them  the  commissioners  shall examine privately
  every witness attending before  them  and  shall  not  make  public  the
  particulars of such examination. No committee of either house or a joint
  committee  of  both  houses  shall have the power to take testimony at a
  private hearing or at a public  hearing  unless  at  least  two  of  its
  members are present at such hearing.