Bill Text: NY A08213 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits persons from holding an elected civil office if convicted of a state or federal felony while holding such civil office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-09 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A08213 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08213-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8213 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY August 25, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting persons from holding an elected civil office if convicted of a state or federal felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1-a of section 3 of the public 2 officers law, as added by section 31-b of subpart A of part H of chapter 3 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 4 (i) No person shall be capable of holding a civil office who shall 5 stand convicted of a state or federal felony [defined in article two6hundred or four hundred ninety-six or section 195.20 of the penal law] 7 while holding such civil office, provided, however, that this paragraph 8 shall only apply to a person elected to a civil office. 9 § 2. Section 3-a of the public officers law, as added by chapter 513 10 of the laws of 1948, is amended to read as follows: 11 § 3-a. Restrictions upon holding public office or employment of 12 persons removed from office for certain reasons. Any public officer 13 who, upon being called before a grand jury to testify concerning the 14 conduct of his or her office or the performance of his or her official 15 duties, refuses to sign a waiver of immunity against subsequent criminal 16 prosecution, or to answer any relevant question concerning such matters 17 before such grand jury and who, by virtue thereof, has been removed from 18 such public office by the appropriate authority or who has forfeited 19 such office at the suit of the attorney general shall not be capable of 20 holding a civil office or public employment [for a period of five years21from the date of the removal from or forfeit of such public office]. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10956-03-1