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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2010
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2023
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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 his or her
6 office, or otherwise act in any official capacity or discharge any
7 duties with respect to a project funded by the state where such officer
8 or employee has previously entered into a contract for consulting
9 services involving such project prior to his or her employment with such
10 state agency. For the purposes of this section, a "contract for consult-
11 ing services" shall mean any contract entered into by a state agency for
12 analysis, evaluation, research, training, data processing, computer
13 programming, engineering, environmental health and mental health
14 services, accounting, auditing, paralegal, legal, or similar services.
15 § 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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