Expands the investigative authority of the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, sexual abuse or sexual assault with respect to statewide elected officials, members of the legislature, employees of the legislature, state officers and employees, candidates for statewide elected office and candidates for the senate or assembly.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6996
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 19, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to expanding the investi-
gative authority of the attorney general
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 63 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. Investigate the alleged commission of sexual misconduct, sexual
4 harassment, sexual abuse or sexual assault with respect to statewide
5 elected officials, members of the legislature, employees of the legisla-
6 ture, state officers and employees, as defined in sections seventy-three
7 and seventy-three-a of the public officers law, candidates for statewide
8 elected office and candidates for the senate or assembly, and to prose-
9 cute the person or persons believed to have committed the same and any
10 crime or offense arising out of such investigation or prosecution or
11 both, including but not limited to appearing before and presenting all
12 such matters to a grand jury.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10212-01-1
