Bill Text: NY A02078 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the definition of the term "lobbyist"; provides that no individual may lobby for compensation if they have been convicted of or plead guilty to a sex offense; provides that no individual may lobby for compensation for a period of five years if they have been found guilty in a claim related to sexual harassment.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to governmental operations [A02078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02078-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2078

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CRUZ,  SEAWRIGHT, EPSTEIN, SIMON, DeSTEFANO,
          TAYLOR, DINOWITZ, GRIFFIN,  NIOU,  L. ROSENTHAL,  JACOBSON,  QUART  --
          Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M.   of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to  the  definition  of
          the term "lobbyist"

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 1-c of the  legislative  law  is
     2  amended by adding two new paragraphs (iii) and (iv) to read as follows:
     3    (iii)  Any individual who stands convicted of, or has plead guilty to,
     4  a sex offense defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal law may
     5  not be retained, employed or designated  by  any  client  to  engage  in
     6  lobbying for compensation.
     7    (iv)  Any  individual  who has been found guilty in a claim related to
     8  sexual harassment under section two hundred ninety-six of the  executive
     9  law,  or found to have violated section seventy-four of the public offi-
    10  cers law in an investigation of sexual harassment allegations,  may  not
    11  be  retained, employed or designated by any client to engage in lobbying
    12  for compensation for a period of five years from the date of  the  judg-
    13  ment or finding.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06160-01-1