Bill Text: NY S03574 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to posting financial disclosure filings for candidates for statewide office or candidates for a member of the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S03574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03574-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3574--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Ethics
          and  Internal Governance -- recommitted to the Committee on Ethics and
          Internal Governance in accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public  officers  law  and  the  executive  law,  in
          relation  to  posting  financial disclosure filings for candidates for
          statewide office or candidates for a member of the legislature

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (k)  of  subdivision  2 of section 73-a of the
     2  public officers law, as amended by section 7 of part QQ of chapter 56 of
     3  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (k) The commission on ethics and lobbying in government shall post for
     5  at least five years beginning for filings made  on  January  first,  two
     6  thousand  thirteen  the annual statement of financial disclosure and any
     7  amendments filed by each person subject to the reporting requirements of
     8  this subdivision who is an elected  official,  candidate  for  statewide
     9  office  or candidate for a member of the legislature, on its website for
    10  public review within thirty days of its receipt  of  such  statement  or
    11  within  ten  days  of  its  receipt  of such amendment that reflects any
    12  corrections of deficiencies identified  by  the  commission  or  by  the
    13  reporting  individual  after  the reporting individual's initial filing.
    14  Except upon an individual determination by the commission  that  certain
    15  information  may  be deleted from a reporting individual's annual state-
    16  ment of financial disclosure, none of the information in  the  statement
    17  posted on the commission's website shall be otherwise deleted.
    18    §  2.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 13 of section 94 of the executive
    19  law, as added by section 2 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022,
    20  is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (b) The commission shall post on its website the following documents:
     2    (i)  the  information  set  forth  in an annual statement of financial
     3  disclosure filed pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public offi-
     4  cers law except information deleted pursuant to paragraph (g) of  subdi-
     5  vision  nine  of this section of statewide elected officials and members
     6  of the legislature, and candidates  for  statewide  elected  office  and
     7  member of the legislature;
     8    (ii)  notices  of  delinquency  sent  under  subdivision  nine of this
     9  section;
    10    (iii) notices of civil assessments imposed under  this  section  which
    11  shall include a description of the nature of the alleged wrongdoing, the
    12  procedural  history  of  the  complaint, the findings and determinations
    13  made by the commission, and any sanction imposed;
    14    (iv) the terms of any settlement  or  compromise  of  a  complaint  or
    15  referral which includes a fine, penalty or other remedy;
    16    (v)  those required to be held or maintained publicly available pursu-
    17  ant to article one-A of the legislative law; and
    18    (vi) reports issued by the commission pursuant to this section.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.