Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4730
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 prohibiting
state officers and employees from official involvement with a state
project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such
project
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 74 of the public officers law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows:
3 j. No officer or employee of a state agency shall perform any official
4 duty or function, including but not limited to the exercise of
5 discretion or other decision making normally attendant to such officer's
6 or employee's office, or otherwise act in any official capacity or
7 discharge any duties with respect to a project funded by the state where
8 such officer or employee has previously entered into a contract for
9 consulting services involving such project prior to such officer's or
10 employee's employment with such state agency. For the purposes of this
11 section, a "contract for consulting services" shall mean any contract
12 entered into by a state agency for analysis, evaluation, research,
13 training, data processing, computer programming, engineering, environ-
14 mental health and mental health services, accounting, auditing, parale-
15 gal, legal, or similar services.
16 § 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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