Bill Text: NY A07107 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7107 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiving compensation for any book or other published work written during the course of their term of service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A07107 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07107-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7107

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law ,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiv-
          ing  compensation  for any book or other published work written during
          the course of their term of service

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 74 of the public officers law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows:
     3    j. No officer elected to a statewide office within the  state  or  who
     4  holds  an  office  filled  by  direct  appointment by the governor, that
     5  receives a state salary, and requires senate confirmation  may  sell  or
     6  receive compensation for any book or other published work written during
     7  their term of service in such position. This paragraph shall not prohib-
     8  it  such a person from selling or receiving compensation for any book or
     9  other such published work written either before or after  such  term  of
    10  service.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10770-01-1