Bill Text: NY S01258 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the forfeiture by state officers or local officers of STAR exemption eligibility upon conviction of a felony related to public employment.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S01258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1258

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, HELMING, KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered
          printed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics
          and Internal Governance

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation  to  requiring  the
          forfeiture  by  state  officers  or  local  officers of STAR exemption
          eligibility upon conviction of a felony related to public employment

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

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be  known and may be cited as the "STAR
     2  Corruption Reduction Act for Politicians (SCRAP)".
     3    § 2. The public officers law is amended by adding a new  section  74-b
     4  to read as follows:
     5    §  74-b.  Felony  convictions of public officers. Any state officer or
     6  local officer, as defined  in  section  two  of  this  chapter,  who  is
     7  convicted  in  any federal or state court of competent jurisdiction of a
     8  felony related to the performance of his or her duties in public  office
     9  or to abuse of his or her office, shall, in addition to any other penal-
    10  ty,  be  subject to permanent forfeiture of his or her eligibility for a
    11  school tax relief (STAR) exemption as provided in section  four  hundred
    12  twenty-five of the real property tax law.
    13    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  and shall apply to
    14  convictions occurring on or after such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04398-01-1