Senate Bill S5477

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to electronic financial disclosures of members and candidates of the legislature and requires creation of electronic version of disclosure statement

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee


  • 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

Do you support this bill?

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.
Actions

2017-S5477 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6222
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73-a, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S979, A3841
2021-2022: S1473, A3334
2023-2024: S3544, A1560

2017-S5477 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to electronic financial disclosures of members and candidates of the legislature and requires creation of electronic version of disclosure statement.

2017-S5477 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5477 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5477
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 30, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
 
 AN ACT to amend the public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  electronic
   financial disclosures of members and candidates of the legislature
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2  of
 section 73-a of the public officers law, as amended by section 5 of part
 A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   Every statewide elected official, state officer or employee, member of
 the  legislature,  legislative employee and political party chairman and
 every candidate for statewide elected office or for member of the legis-
 lature shall file an annual statement of financial disclosure containing
 the information and in the form set forth in subdivision three  of  this
 section.    EVERY  MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE AND CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER OF
 THE LEGISLATURE MUST FILE THEIR ANNUAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
 ELECTRONICALLY IN AN ELECTRONIC, READABLE, SEARCHABLE  AND  DOWNLOADABLE
 FORMAT.  On  or  before  the  fifteenth  day  of May with respect to the
 preceding calendar year: (1) every  member  of  the  legislature,  every
 candidate  for  member of the legislature and legislative employee shall
 file such statement with the legislative ethics commission  which  shall
 provide  such  statement  along  with  any  requests  for  exemptions or
 deletions to the joint  commission  on  public  ethics  for  filing  and
 rulings with respect to such requests for exemptions or deletions, on or
 before the thirtieth day of June; and (2) all other individuals required
 to file such statement shall file it with the joint commission on public
 ethics, except that:
   §  2.  Subdivision  3  of  section 73-a of the public officers law, as
 amended by section 5 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011, para-
 graph 8 as amended by section 6 of part K of chapter 286 of the laws  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09676-02-7
              

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.