Bill Text: NY S01076 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | 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 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S01076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01076-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1076

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. BORRELLO, OBERACKER, O'MARA, ORTT, STEC, TEDISCO --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance

        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.
                                                                   LBD03935-01-3
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