Assembly Bill A10950

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires state legislators and candidates for the legislature to fully disclose the sources of all income, in excess of $1,000, from any employment

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10950 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73-a, Pub Off L; amd §§80 & 5-a, add §2-a, Leg L; amd §14-108, El L; ren Art 23, §§860 & 861 to be Art 24 §§870 & 871, add Art 23 §§860 - 865, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A1328

2009-A10950 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the disclosure by members of the legislature and candidates for member of the legislature, of the amount and source of any income, in excess of $1,000, from employment; requires the legislative ethics commission to make the financial disclosure statements of members of the legislature available to the public on the internet; limits term of legislative committee chair to no more than 4 consecutive years; provides that members of the legislature shall not serve more than five two year terms in either house

2009-A10950 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10950 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10950

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 5, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. BALL, CASTELLI -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Governmental Operations

AN ACT to amend the public officers law  and  the  legislative  law,  in
  relation  to  disclosure  of  all  income from employment (Part A); to
  amend the legislative law, in relation to  the  terms  of  legislative
  committee  chairs  (Part B); to amend the legislative law, in relation
  to term limits for state legislators (Part C); to amend  the  election
  law,  in  relation  to  the  time  for  filing  statements of campaign
  receipts and expenditures (Part D); and to amend the judiciary law, in
  relation to regulating the activities of judicial candidates (Part E)

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  This  act enacts into law major components of legislation
which are necessary to enact ethics reform.  Each  component  is  wholly
contained  within  a Part identified as Parts A through E. The effective
date of each particular provision contained  within  such  Part  is  set
forth  in  the  last  section of such Part. Any provision in any section
contained within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which
makes reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with
that particular component, shall be deemed to  mean  and  refer  to  the
corresponding section of the Part in which it is found. Section three of
this act sets forth the general effective date of this act.

                                 PART A

  Section  1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision 3 of section 73-a of the public
officers law is amended by adding a new  subparagraph  (c)  to  read  as
follows:
  (C)  IF  YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE OR A CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER
OF THE LEGISLATURE, LIST EACH SOURCE AND THE AMOUNT OF INCOME THEREFROM,
IN EXCESS OF $1,000, (OTHER THAN FROM THE EMPLOYMENT LISTED UNDER  PARA-
GRAPH  2  ABOVE)  RECEIVED  DURING  THE  REPORTING PERIOD FOR WHICH THIS
STATEMENT IS FILED BY THE REPORTING  INDIVIDUAL  FROM  THE  PRACTICE  OF
EVERY  OCCUPATION, EMPLOYMENT, TRADE, BUSINESS AND PROFESSION ENGAGED IN

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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