Bill Text: NY S06325 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the term "reportable business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S06325 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06325-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6325

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 5, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the term "reportable
          business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state
          university of New York and the city university of New York

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as
     2  added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation-
     5  ship  in  which  compensation  is paid by a lobbyist or by a client of a
     6  lobbyist, in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value,  the
     7  total  value  of which is in excess of one thousand dollars annually, to
     8  be performed or provided by or intended to be performed or  provided  by
     9  (i)  any  statewide  elected  official,  state  officer, state employee,
    10  member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in
    11  which the lobbyist or the client of a lobbyist knows or  has  reason  to
    12  know  the  statewide  elected  official,  state officer, state employee,
    13  member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part-
    14  ner, director, officer or manager, or owns or controls  ten  percent  or
    15  more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo-
    16  ration  whose  stock  is  regularly  traded on an established securities
    17  exchange). Provided, however, that  such  term  shall  not  include  any
    18  relationship  between an individual and a college or university, as such
    19  terms are defined in section two of the education law, when  such  indi-
    20  vidual's  only  state  employment is through the state university of New
    21  York or the city university of New York as a professor, adjunct  profes-
    22  sor,  lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or
    23  similar teaching role and is employed in a similar role at  the  college
    24  or university.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13166-02-9