Bill Text: NY A04593 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the investigative authority of the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual abuse or sexual assault with respect to statewide elected officials, members of the legislature, employees of the legislature, state officers and employees, candidates for statewide elected office and candidates for the senate or assembly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A04593 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04593-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4593

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to expanding the investi-
          gative authority of the attorney general

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

     1    Section  1. Section 63 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. Investigate the alleged commission of  sexual  misconduct,  sexual
     4  harassment,  sexual  abuse  or  sexual assault with respect to statewide
     5  elected officials, members of the legislature, employees of the legisla-
     6  ture, state officers and employees, as defined in sections seventy-three
     7  and seventy-three-a of the public officers law, candidates for statewide
     8  elected office and candidates for the senate or assembly, and to  prose-
     9  cute  the  person or persons believed to have committed the same and any
    10  crime or offense arising out of such  investigation  or  prosecution  or
    11  both,  including  but not limited to appearing before and presenting all
    12  such matters to a grand jury.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09379-01-3