Bill Text: NY S04512 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4512 (Prior Session Legislation)

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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-01 - PRINT NUMBER 4512A [S04512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04512-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4512--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER,  BIAGGI, GAUGHRAN, HOYLMAN, KAPLAN, LIU,
          MAY, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Governance  in  accord-
          ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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  (a)  received  a
     4  judicial  or  administrative  order  on  the merits following a trial or
     5  hearing, which is (i) in favor of the complainant,  or  (ii)  determines
     6  that  the  accused individual is liable, or (b) admitted liability to, a
     7  sex offense defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal  law  may
     8  not  be  retained,  employed  or  designated  by any client to engage in
     9  lobbying for compensation for a period of five years from  the  date  of
    10  the judgment or finding.
    11    (iv)  Any individual who has (a) received a judicial or administrative
    12  order on the merits following a trial or hearing, which is (i) in  favor
    13  of  the  complainant,  or (ii) determines that the accused individual is
    14  liable, or (b) admitted liability in a claim related to  sexual  harass-
    15  ment under section two hundred ninety-six of the executive law, or found
    16  to  have  violated section seventy-four of the public officers law in an
    17  investigation of discrimination or harassment allegations,  may  not  be
    18  retained, employed or designated by any client to engage in lobbying for
    19  compensation for a period of five years from the date of the judgment or
    20  finding.
    21    § 2. 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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