Bill Text: NY S01571 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-14 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S01571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01571-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1571

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, THOMAS, BRESLIN, BRISPORT, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
          KRUEGER, MAY, MYRIE, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY  --  read  twice  and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring  the  ethics
          commission  of  the unified court system to post judges' annual finan-
          cial disclosures on the commission's website

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  211 of the judiciary law, as
     2  amended by chapter 188 of the laws of   1990,   is amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4.  (a)  By  September first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the chief
     5  judge, after consultation with the administrative board, shall approve a
     6  form of annual statement of financial disclosure which form shall  apply
     7  to  all judges, justices, officers and employees of the courts of record
     8  of the unified court system, who receive annual compensation at or above
     9  the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one  of  section
    10  seventy-three-a  of  the public officers law or are determined to hold a
    11  policy-making position pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated
    12  pursuant to this subdivision. Such form of annual statement of financial
    13  disclosure shall be substantially similar  to  the  form  set  forth  in
    14  subdivision three of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.
    15  Within one year after approval of such form, the chief judge shall cause
    16  the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules or regulations
    17  which  require  every judge, justice, officer and employee of the courts
    18  of record of the unified court system, who receives annual  compensation
    19  at  or above the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one
    20  of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law or  is  determined
    21  to  hold a policy-making position, to report the information required by
    22  the approved form effective first with respect to a filing  which  shall

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05621-01-3

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     1  be  required  in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one (generally applicable to
     2  information for the preceding calendar year) and  thereafter,  effective
     3  for future annual filings. Such rules and regulations shall also provide
     4  for the determination, by the appointing authority, of policy-makers who
     5  shall  be  required to file the annual statement of financial disclosure
     6  required by this subdivision. Any judge, justice, officer or employee of
     7  the courts of record of the unified court system who, pursuant  to  such
     8  rules  or  regulations, is required to file a completed annual statement
     9  of financial disclosure and who makes such filing in accordance with the
    10  requirements contained in such rules or regulations, shall be deemed  to
    11  have satisfied the requirements of any other law mandating the filing of
    12  a  completed annual statement of financial disclosure for the applicable
    13  calendar year which might otherwise  apply  to  such  judges,  justices,
    14  officers  or  employees,  and  no  duplicate filing shall be required on
    15  account of any other such law, notwithstanding the  provisions  of  such
    16  other law.
    17    (b)  The  ethics commission for the unified court system shall post on
    18  its website for public review for at  least  five  years  beginning  for
    19  filings  made on January first, two thousand eighteen, the annual state-
    20  ment of financial disclosure and any amendments  filed  by  each  person
    21  subject  to  the  reporting  requirements  of  this subdivision who is a
    22  state-paid judge or justice, regardless of his or  her  annual  rate  of
    23  compensation.  Such  statements  shall  be  posted within thirty days of
    24  receipt of such statement or within ten days of its receipt of an amend-
    25  ment that reflects any corrections of  deficiencies  identified  by  the
    26  commission  or  by  the  reporting  individual  after  such individual's
    27  initial filing. Except upon an individual determination by  the  commis-
    28  sion  that  certain information may be deleted from a reporting individ-
    29  ual's annual statement of financial disclosure, none of the  information
    30  in  the  statement posted on the commission's website shall be otherwise
    31  deleted.
    32    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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