Prohibits statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiving compensation for any book or other published work written during the course of their term of service.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5601--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. BORRELLO, OBERACKER, O'MARA, ORTT -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Ethics and Internal Governance -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting
statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiv-
ing compensation for any book or other published work written during
the course of their term of service
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 elected to a statewide office within the state or who
4 holds an office filled by direct appointment by the governor, that
5 receives a state salary, and requires senate confirmation may sell or
6 receive compensation for any book or other published work written during
7 their term of service in such position. This paragraph shall not prohib-
8 it such a person from selling or receiving compensation for any book or
9 other such published work written either before or after such term of
10 service.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10320-02-1
