Bill Text: NY S04074 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a person convicted of rebellion or insurrection under federal law from state or municipal employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04074-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4074

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting  a
          person convicted of rebellion or insurrection against the authority of
          the United States or the laws thereof from state and municipal employ-
          ment

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subdivision  1  of  section
     2  105  of  the  civil  service law, as added by chapter 790 of the laws of
     3  1958, are amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:
     4    (a) by word of mouth or writing [wilfully] willfully and  deliberately
     5  advocates,  advises  or  teaches the doctrine that the government of the
     6  United States or of any state or of any  political  subdivision  thereof
     7  should  be  overthrown  or overturned by force, violence or any unlawful
     8  means; [or]
     9    (b) prints, publishes, edits, issues or sells, any book, paper,  docu-
    10  ment or written or printed matter in any form, containing or advocating,
    11  advising  or  teaching  the  doctrine  that the government of the United
    12  States or of any state or of any political subdivision thereof should be
    13  overthrown by force, violence or any unlawful means, and who  advocates,
    14  advises, teaches, or embraces the duty, necessity or propriety of adopt-
    15  ing the doctrine contained therein; [or]
    16    (c)  organizes or helps to organize or becomes a member of any society
    17  or group of persons which teaches or advocates that  the  government  of
    18  the United States or of any state or of any political subdivision there-
    19  of  shall  be  overthrown  by  force  or  violence,  or  by any unlawful
    20  means[.]; or
    21    (d) shall stand convicted of  violating  section  two  thousand  three
    22  hundred eighty-six of title eighteen of the United States code.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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