Bill Text: NY A09535 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to limits on outside income earned by members of the legislature; campaign contributions by limited liability companies; communications with journalists and monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 86-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-15 - REFERRED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [A09535 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09535-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9535
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 11, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. HEASTIE, MORELLE, PEOPLES-STOKES, LENTOL, CUSICK,
          LAVINE,  FARRELL,  DINOWITZ,  FAHY  --  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ABINANTI, ARROYO, BARRETT, BENEDETTO, BICHOTTE,  BRAUNSTEIN,  BRENNAN,
          BRINDISI,  BRONSON,  BUCHWALD,  CAHILL, CERETTO, COLTON, COOK, CRESPO,
          CYMBROWITZ, DAVILA, DenDEKKER, ENGLEBRIGHT, GALEF, GANTT, GLICK, GOTT-
          FRIED, GUNTHER,  HARRIS,  HEVESI,  HIKIND,  HOOPER,  HUNTER,  HYNDMAN,
          JAFFEE,  JEAN-PIERRE,  JOYNER, KAVANAGH, KEARNS, KIM, LIFTON, LINARES,
          LUPARDO, MAGEE, MAGNARELLI, MARKEY, MAYER, McDONALD,  MILLER,  MOSLEY,
          MOYA,  NOLAN,  O'DONNELL, OTIS, PAULIN, PERRY, PICHARDO, RAMOS, RODRI-
          GUEZ, ROSENTHAL, ROZIC, RUSSELL, RYAN, SCHIMEL, SEAWRIGHT,  SEPULVEDA,
          SIMANOWITZ, SIMON, SIMOTAS, SKARTADOS, SOLAGES, STECK, STIRPE, THIELE,
          TITONE,  TITUS, WALKER, WEINSTEIN, WOERNER, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the legislative  law,  in  relation  to  limitations  on
          outside  income for members; to amend the election law, in relation to
          campaign contributions by limited liability companies;  to  amend  the
          legislative law, in relation to communications with professional jour-
          nalists and newscasters; and in relation to reporting of certain fund-
          ing by lobbyists; and to amend the election law, in relation to monies
          received  and  expenditures  made  by a party committee or constituted
          committee
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 5-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 5-b. Limit on outside income for members.  1. A member of the legis-
     4  lature receiving a salary for legislative work from  the  state  of  New
     5  York  shall  not,  in  a calendar year, earn outside income for personal
     6  services actually rendered in an amount greater than  forty  percent  of
     7  the  annual salary, as provided by law, of state justices of the supreme
     8  court.
     9    2. (a) For purposes of this section, the term "outside  income"  shall
    10  include  wages,  salaries,  fees, commissions and other forms of compen-
    11  sation for services actually rendered.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14682-01-6