STATE OF NEW YORK
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5324
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
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.
LBD09532-01-5
