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