Bill Text: NY A05159 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5159 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the joint commission on public ethics to develop and maintain an ethics training course for members and staff of the legislature; requires all members of the legislature to successfully complete the ethics training course on an annual basis.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - print number 5159a [A05159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05159-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5159--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 12, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE, STECK, SKOUFIS, McDONALD, MILLER, JAFFEE,
          COLTON,  KEARNS,  BUCHWALD,  ARROYO,  MONTESANO,  HAWLEY, RAIA, FINCH,
          CURRAN, DUPREY, ZEBROWSKI, HOOPER, GALEF, WRIGHT, PICHARDO, SCHIMEL --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GARBARINO, LAWRENCE, SIMON -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  recommit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on Governmental Operations in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  requiring  the  joint
          commission on public ethics to develop and maintain an ethics training
          course  for  members  and  staff  of the legislature; and to amend the
          legislative law, in relation to requiring all members of the  legisla-
          ture  to successfully complete the ethics training course on an annual
          basis
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (m)  and subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (n) of
     2  subdivision 9 of section 94 of  the  executive  law,  paragraph  (m)  as
     3  amended  and subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (n) as added by section 6 of
     4  part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011 are amended and  a  new  para-
     5  graph (o) is added to read as follows:
     6    (m)  Determine  a  question  common  to a class or defined category of
     7  persons or items of information required to be disclosed, where determi-
     8  nation of the question will prevent undue  repetition  of  requests  for
     9  exemption  or  deletion  or prevent undue complication in complying with
    10  the requirements of such section; [and]
    11    (iv) if thereafter sufficient cause exists, the commission shall  take
    12  additional actions, as appropriate and consistent with law[.]; and
    13    (o)  The  commission  shall  develop  and  maintain an ethics training
    14  course for members and staff of the legislature. Such  course  shall  be
    15  designed  to  help  legislators and staff in understanding and complying
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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