2015 New York Laws
GMU - General Municipal
Article 11-A - (General Municipal) SERVICE AWARD PROGRAMS
217-A - Public information website.

  217-a.  Public  information  website.  1. The comptroller is hereby
  authorized to make available to the public on  its  website  information
  about  vendors  of  service  award  programs,  both defined contribution
  programs and defined benefit programs, for volunteer firefighters.  Such
  information shall include, but need not be limited to:
(a)  categorization by class of all costs, fees and commissions of any
  type;
(b) rate of return on investment for one, three,  five  and  ten  year
  periods  ending  December thirty-first, including gross of all costs and
  net of all costs;
(c) length of time the company has been in business;
(d) information regarding management stability including the length of
  tenure of board members;
(e) description of investment  structure  including  its  ten  largest
  holdings;
(f) statement of investment philosophy;
(g)  list of all representatives and their relationship to any program
  sponsor;
(h) percentage of investments bought or sold during each year.
2. The comptroller is hereby authorized to develop and  distribute  to
  every  vendor, not more than sixty days after the effective date of this
  section, a form that shall be used for the  purpose  of  collecting  the
  information  required  by  subdivision one of this section and any other
  information  the  comptroller  may  deem  desirable  to  accomplish  the
  purposes  of  this  section. Every vendor shall return such forms to the
  comptroller no later than ninety days after the effective date  of  this
  section  and  annually thereafter, but no later than March first of each
  year commencing  in  two  thousand  eight.  The  comptroller  is  hereby
  authorized  to publish the information obtained from such forms and make
  it available to New York residents on  the  office  of  the  comptroller
  website by July first, two thousand eight and annually thereafter.
3.  As  used in this section, "vendor" shall mean an organization duly
  authorized to do business  in  the  state  and  which  is  qualified  to
  administer  and  maintain  records  and  accounts of defined benefit and
  defined contribution plans which meet the requirements for qualification
  under the internal revenue code and  governmental  defined  benefit  and
  defined contribution plans.