Bill Text: NY A06996 | 2021-2022 | 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 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A06996 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06996-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6996

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          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.
                                                                   LBD10212-01-1