Bill Text: NY S05601 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S05601 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05601-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5601--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. BORRELLO, OBERACKER, O'MARA, ORTT -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Ethics  and Internal Governance -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD10320-02-1