Bill Text: NY S09011 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9011

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires electronic filing of all financial disclosure statements with the commission on ethics and lobbying in government.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S09011 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09011-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9011

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
          nance

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring  elec-
          tronic filing of all financial disclosure statements

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 73-a of the public officers law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
     3    (l) (i) Beginning with the statement due in calendar year two thousand
     4  twenty-five, all statements shall be submitted on the electronic  filing
     5  system  administered by the commission on ethics and lobbying in govern-
     6  ment.
     7    (ii) Any individual required to file  a  statement  pursuant  to  this
     8  section  may  request  from  the  commission  on  ethics and lobbying in
     9  government or the individual's appointing authority access to  an  elec-
    10  tronic  computer  terminal  to  file  the  statement.  An individual who
    11  requests such access must be provided access within two business days of
    12  submitting the request.
    13    (iii) No individual shall be deemed  not  to  have  timely  filed  the
    14  statement if access to an electronic computer terminal was not available
    15  as provided in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph.
    16    (iv)  An individual may submit the statement on a form supplied by the
    17  commission on ethics and lobbying in government with a written  attesta-
    18  tion  from a physician or other licensed health provider indicating that
    19  the individual has a disability or infirmity preventing  the  individual
    20  from  completing  the statement on the electronic filing system provided
    21  by the commission on ethics and lobbying in government.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15095-01-4