Bill Text: NY A09854 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the forfeiture by state officers or local officers of STAR exemption eligibility upon conviction of a felony related to public employment.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-14 - enacting clause stricken [A09854 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09854-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9854 IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring the forfeiture by state officers or local officers of STAR exemption eligibility upon conviction of a felony related to public employment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "STAR 2 Corruption Reduction Act for Politicians (SCRAP)". 3 § 2. The public officers law is amended by adding a new section 74-b 4 to read as follows: 5 § 74-b. Felony convictions of public officers. Any state officer or 6 local officer, as defined in section two of this chapter, who is 7 convicted in any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction of a 8 felony related to the performance of his or her duties in public office 9 or to abuse of his or her office, shall, in addition to any other penal- 10 ty, be subject to permanent forfeiture of his or her eligibility for a 11 school tax relief (STAR) exemption as provided in section four hundred 12 twenty-five of the real property tax law. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to 14 convictions occurring on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14489-03-8
