Prohibits a state or local authority, or subsidiary thereof, from retaining, contracting, employing, or designating a lobbyist to engage in lobbying; allows for the cancellation of pre-existing contracts.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7681
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 29, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to prohibiting a
state or local authority from employing or designating a lobbyist to
engage in lobbying
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 2859 to read as follows:
3 § 2859. Prohibition on retaining lobbyists. 1. Notwithstanding any
4 other law to the contrary, no state or local authority, or subsidiary
5 thereof, shall, directly or indirectly retain, contract, employ, or
6 designate a lobbyist to engage in lobbying. For the purposes of this
7 section, the terms "lobbyist" and "lobbying" shall have the meanings as
8 defined in section one-c of the legislative law.
9 2. Any contracts in effect at the time of the effective date of this
10 section, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this section, may
11 be cancelled or terminated by the public authority without incurring any
12 penalty or damages on account of such cancellation or termination, but
13 any monies owing by the public authority for work done prior to the
14 cancellation or termination shall be paid.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10929-01-5
