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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6719--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 5, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations -- recommitted to the Committee on
Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
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 an indi-
18 vidual whose only state employment is through the state university of
19 New York or the city university of New York as a professor, adjunct
20 professor, lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate profes-
21 sor, or similar teaching role that does not supervise other state
22 employees or manage grant-funded projects or research.
23 § 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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