Bill Text: NY S02010 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2010

NY State Legislature page for S02010

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S02010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02010-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2010

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 public officers  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          state  officers  and  employees from official involvement with a state
          project where the officer or employee acted as a  consultant  on  such
          project

          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 or employee of a state agency shall perform any official
     4  duty  or  function,  including  but  not  limited  to  the  exercise  of
     5  discretion or other decision making normally attendant  to  his  or  her
     6  office,  or  otherwise  act  in  any  official capacity or discharge any
     7  duties with respect to a project funded by the state where such  officer
     8  or  employee  has  previously  entered  into  a  contract for consulting
     9  services involving such project prior to his or her employment with such
    10  state agency. For the purposes of this section, a "contract for consult-
    11  ing services" shall mean any contract entered into by a state agency for
    12  analysis, evaluation,  research,  training,  data  processing,  computer
    13  programming,   engineering,   environmental  health  and  mental  health
    14  services, accounting, auditing, paralegal, legal, or similar services.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05960-01-3