Bill Text: NY S07613 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Prohibits public officers from using their authority to compel or coerce subordinates to use their official time to perform activities intended to benefit a private business or for other compensated non-governmental purposes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-06-01 - referred to governmental operations [S07613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07613-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7613

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public officers  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          public  officers from using their authority to compel a subordinate to
          use their official time to perform activities intended  to  benefit  a
          private business or for other compensated non-governmental purposes

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph d of subdivision 3 of section 74  of  the  public
     2  officers  law,  as  amended by section 7 of part K of chapter 286 of the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    d. No officer or employee of a state agency, member of the legislature
     5  or legislative employee should use or attempt to use his or her official
     6  position to secure unwarranted privileges or exemptions for  himself  or
     7  herself or others, including but not limited to, the misappropriation to
     8  himself,  herself  or  to  others  of  the  property,  services or other
     9  resources of the state for private business or other compensated non-go-
    10  vernmental purposes  and also including, but not limited to, the use  of
    11  authority  or official influence to compel or coerce subordinates to use
    12  resources of the state unrelated to the discharge of  the  subordinates'
    13  duties  and intending to benefit a private business or for other compen-
    14  sated non-governmental purposes.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13853-04-1