Bill Text: NY A08200 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a business or entity doing business with an agency or industrial development authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-01 - substituted by s7445b [A08200 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08200-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8200--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 25, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JACOBSON, GUNTHER, SIMON, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD
          -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Local  Governments  --
          recommitted  to  the Committee on Local Governments 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 general municipal law, in  relation  to  prohibiting
          individuals in certain positions from taking any position with a busi-
          ness or entity doing business with an industrial development authority

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

     1    Section 1. Section 883 of the general municipal  law,  as  amended  by
     2  section  7  of  part  J of chapter 59 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 883. Conflicts of interest. 1. All members, officers, and  employees
     5  of  an  agency  or  industrial development authority established by this
     6  chapter or created by the public authorities law shall be subject to the
     7  provisions of article eighteen of this chapter.
     8    2. No member, officer, employee or independent contractor of any agen-
     9  cy or industrial development authority established by  this  chapter  or
    10  the  public  authorities  law  shall  take any position, whether paid or
    11  unpaid, including but not limited to an independent contractor, with any
    12  business or entity applying for or receiving financial  assistance  from
    13  such  agency  or  industrial  development authority while employed by or
    14  rendering services to such agency or industrial development authority or
    15  within two years after termination of such employment  or  rendering  of
    16  services.
    17    3.  Any  person who violates the provisions of subdivision two of this
    18  section and is compensated or receives any benefit due to such violation
    19  shall pay a civil  penalty  to  the  agency  or  industrial  development
    20  authority  in  an amount equal to five times the compensation or benefit
    21  received by such person. These penalties shall be  in  addition  to  any
    22  criminal liability.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11895-03-2