STATE OF NEW YORK
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10483
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 exempting
student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
2 section 73 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter 14 of the
3 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) No person who has served as a member of the legislature shall
5 within a period of two years after the termination of such service
6 receive compensation for any services on behalf of any person, firm,
7 corporation or association to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly,
8 the passage of bills or resolutions by either house of the legislature.
9 No legislative employee, except for student interns participating
10 through a college, university or legislative program, shall within a
11 period of two years after the termination of such service receive
12 compensation for any services on behalf of any person, firm, corporation
13 or association to appear, practice or directly communicate before either
14 house of the legislature to promote or oppose the passage of bills or
15 resolutions by either house of the legislature.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15932-01-6
