Bill Text: NY A06313 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits any entity which is contracted to operate the Long Island power authority from lobbying; requires Long Island power authority employees be residents of such authority's service area.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A06313 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06313-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6313

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  legislative law, in relation to prohibiting any
          entity which is contracted to operate the Long Island power  authority
          from lobbying; and to amend the public authorities law, in relation to
          requiring  Long  Island power authority employees be residents of such
          authority's service area

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 1-d of the legislative law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) prohibit any lobbying or advertising  from  any  entity  which  is
     4  contracted to operate the Long Island power authority.
     5    § 2. Title 1-A of article 5 of the public authorities law, as added by
     6  chapter  517  of  the  laws  of 1986, is amended by adding a new section
     7  1020-nn to read as follows:
     8    § 1020-nn. Residency requirement. The authority shall not  employ  any
     9  person  who  is  not a resident of the service area of the authority. An
    10  entity which is contracted to operate the authority shall not employ  in
    11  any  position  which  is  in  any  way associated with the authority any
    12  person who is not a resident of the service area of the authority.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    14  law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07463-01-3