Bill Text: NY A07217 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7217 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A07217 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07217-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7217
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 12, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- 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.
                                                                   LBD09664-01-9