Bill Text: NY A05888 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all plea agreements offered to public officers and former public officers to include pension forfeiture.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-16 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A05888 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05888-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5888 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 20, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LALOR, ASHBY, DeSTEFANO, FINCH, FRIEND, GIGLIO, HAWLEY, JOHNS, MIKULIN, MORINELLO, NORRIS, RAIA, REILLY, SALKA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring plea agreements offered to public officers to include pension forfeiture The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section 2 74-b to read as follows: 3 § 74-b. Plea agreements to include pension forfeiture. Notwithstand- 4 ing any other provision of law to the contrary, no plea agreement for 5 any crime related to abuse of his or her office shall be accepted by a 6 court of competent jurisdiction where the defendant is a public officer 7 or former public officer without the commencement of an action to 8 forfeit all rights and benefits as a member or a retired member of the 9 appropriate retirement system, including the pension of the public offi- 10 cer or former public officer in supreme court. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00920-01-9