Bill Text: NY A06719 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the term "reportable business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-05 - print number 6719a [A06719 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06719-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6719--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations --  recommitted  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 legislative law, in relation to the term "reportable
          business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state
          university of New York and the city university of New York

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  8  of  part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation-
     5  ship in which compensation is paid by a lobbyist or by  a  client  of  a
     6  lobbyist,  in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value, the
     7  total value of which is in excess of one thousand dollars  annually,  to
     8  be  performed  or provided by or intended to be performed or provided by
     9  (i) any statewide  elected  official,  state  officer,  state  employee,
    10  member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in
    11  which  the  lobbyist  or the client of a lobbyist knows or has reason to
    12  know the statewide elected  official,  state  officer,  state  employee,
    13  member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part-
    14  ner,  director,  officer  or manager, or owns or controls ten percent or
    15  more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo-
    16  ration whose stock is regularly  traded  on  an  established  securities
    17  exchange).  Provided, however, that such term shall not include an indi-
    18  vidual whose only  state  employment is through the state university  of
    19  New  York  or  the  city  university of New York as a professor, adjunct
    20  professor,  lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate profes-
    21  sor, or similar teaching  role  that  does  not  supervise  other  state
    22  employees or manage grant-funded projects or research.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06527-04-3