Bill Text: NY S00011 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 11 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to giving and/or receiving unlawful benefits.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-15 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00011 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00011-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          11--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to giving and/or receiving
          unlawful benefits
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 200.31 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 200.31 Giving unlawful benefits.
     4    Anyone who otherwise than as provided by law for the proper  discharge
     5  of  official  duty  directly or indirectly gives, offers or promises any
     6  benefit with a value in excess  of  three  thousand  dollars,  with  the
     7  exception  of  campaign  contributions  under  article  fourteen  of the
     8  election law, to any public official or person selected to be  a  public
     9  official because of that person's official position.
    10    Giving unlawful benefits is a class E felony.
    11    §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 200.36 to read
    12  as follows:
    13  § 200.36 Receiving unlawful benefits.
    14    Anyone who, being a public official or person selected to be a  public
    15  official,  otherwise than as provided by law for the proper discharge of
    16  official duty, directly or  indirectly  seeks,  receives  or  agrees  to
    17  receive  any benefit, with the exception of campaign contributions under
    18  article fourteen of the election law, with a value in  excess  of  three
    19  thousand dollars because of that person's official position.
    20    Receiving unlawful benefits is a class E felony.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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