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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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617--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SHIMSKY, REYES, SCHIAVONI, LEVENBERG, GLICK --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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 a
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 is employed by such college or university as a teaching profes-
21 sor, adjunct professor, lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, asso-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 ciate professor, or similar teaching role, when such individual's only
2 state employment is through the state university of New York or the city
3 university of New York as a teaching professor, adjunct professor,
4 lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or simi-
5 lar teaching role that does not include the supervision of other state
6 employees or the management of grant-funded projects or research.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
