Bill Text: NY S01699 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits certain functions within a fifteen mile radius of the New York state Capitol whenever the legislature is in session.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S01699 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01699-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1699

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
          nance

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law and the election law, in relation to
          prohibiting certain functions whenever the legislature is in session

          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
     2  1-m-1 to read as follows:
     3    § 1-m-1. Certain functions prohibited within a fifteen mile radius  of
     4  the New York state Capitol.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
     5  contrary,  no  person  or entity shall hold, participate in, or attend a
     6  function designed to solicit funds that are  subject  to  the  reporting
     7  requirements  of  article  fourteen of the election law within a fifteen
     8  mile radius of the New York state Capitol whenever the legislature is in
     9  session.
    10    § 2. Subdivision (a) and paragraphs (i) and (iv) of subdivision (b) of
    11  section 1-o of the legislative law, as added by chapter 14 of  the  laws
    12  of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
    13    (a)  (i) Any lobbyist, public corporation, or client who knowingly and
    14  wilfully fails to file timely a report or  statement  required  by  this
    15  section  or  knowingly and wilfully files false information or knowingly
    16  and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this  article  shall
    17  be guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and
    18    (ii)  any  lobbyist,  public  corporation, or client who knowingly and
    19  wilfully fails to file timely a report or  statement  required  by  this
    20  section  or  knowingly and wilfully files false information or knowingly
    21  and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this article,  after
    22  having  previously  been  convicted  in  the preceding five years of the
    23  crime described in paragraph (i) of this subdivision, shall be guilty of
    24  a class E felony. Any lobbyist convicted of  or  pleading  guilty  to  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04944-01-5
        S. 1699                             2

     1  felony under the provisions of this section may be barred from acting as
     2  a lobbyist for a period of one year from the date of the conviction. For
     3  the  purposes  of  this subdivision, the chief administrative officer of
     4  any  organization  required  to  file a statement or report shall be the
     5  person responsible for making and filing such statement or report unless
     6  some other person prior to the due date thereof has been duly designated
     7  to make and file such statement or report.
     8    (i) A lobbyist,  public  corporation,  or  client  who  knowingly  and
     9  wilfully  fails  to  file a statement or report within the time required
    10  for the filing of such report or knowingly and wilfully violates section
    11  one-m or one-m-one of this article shall be subject to a  civil  penalty
    12  for  each  such  failure  or  violation,  in an amount not to exceed the
    13  greater of twenty-five thousand dollars or three times  the  amount  the
    14  person  failed  to  report properly or unlawfully contributed, expended,
    15  gave or received, to be assessed by the commission.
    16    (iv) Any lobbyist or client that knowingly and wilfully fails to  file
    17  a  statement  or  report within the time required for the filing of such
    18  report, knowingly and wilfully files a false  statement  or  report,  or
    19  knowingly and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this arti-
    20  cle,  after  having been found by the commission to have [knowing] know-
    21  ingly and wilfully committed such conduct or violation in the  preceding
    22  five  years,  may  be  subject  to  a determination that the lobbyist or
    23  client is prohibited from engaging in lobbying activities, as that  term
    24  is  defined in paragraph (v) of subdivision (c) of section one-c of this
    25  article, for a period of one year.
    26    § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 14-126 of the election law,  as  amended
    27  by  section  6 of subpart C of part H of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014,
    28  is amended to read as follows:
    29    4. Any person who knowingly and willfully fails to  file  a  statement
    30  required  to  be  filed  by  this article within ten days after the date
    31  provided for filing such statement or any person who knowingly and will-
    32  fully violates any other provision of this article or who knowingly  and
    33  willfully  violates  the provisions of section one-m-one of the legisla-
    34  tive law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
    35    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.