Bill Text: NY A02133 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2133 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enhances conflict of interest provisions relating to industrial development agency members and employees to require industrial development officers and employees to disclose any interest in a project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - enacting clause stricken [A02133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02133-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2133
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. GANTT -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Local Governments
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  conflicts  of
          interest  involving  members or employees of an industrial development
          agency; and to repeal section 883 of such law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 883 of the general municipal law is REPEALED and a
     2  new section 883 is added to read as follows:
     3    § 883. Conflicts of interest. 1. All members and employees of an agen-
     4  cy shall be subject to the provisions of article eighteen of this  chap-
     5  ter.
     6    2.  Any  agency member or employee who has or will have an interest in
     7  any person, firm, corporation  or  association  which  receives  or  may
     8  receive  financial  assistance  or  be  granted  exemption from taxation
     9  pursuant to the provisions of this article, or an interest  in  property
    10  subject  to  such  assistance  or exemption, shall publicly disclose the
    11  nature and extent of such interest in writing to the agency as  soon  as
    12  such  member  or  employee  has  knowledge of such actual or prospective
    13  interest and shall recuse himself or herself from any discussion or vote
    14  relating to such interest. The written disclosure required  pursuant  to
    15  this  subdivision  shall  be  made part of and set forth in the official
    16  record of the proceedings of the agency. Once disclosure has  been  made
    17  by  a member or employee of an agency with respect to any such interest,
    18  no further disclosures need be made by  such  member  or  employee  with
    19  respect  to  additional assistance or exemptions granted to such person,
    20  firm, corporation or association or involving such property  during  the
    21  remainder of the fiscal year.
    22    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    23  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00445-01-9