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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Senate Bill S919
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) 54th Senate District
(R, C, IP) 62nd Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2017-S919 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A6003
- Current Committee:
- Senate Finance
- Law Section:
- Public Officers Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §59, Pub Off L; amd §80, Leg L; amd §94, rpld sub 10, Exec L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2015-2016:
S7355
2019-2020: A1608
2021-2022: A4794
2017-S919 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S919 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public officers law, the legislative law and the executive law, in relation to mandatory ethics training for certain officers and employees of the state; and to repeal subdivision 10 of section 94 of the executive law relating thereto PURPOSE : The purpose of this bill is to increase and align ethics training requirements for all state officers, employees, legislators and legislative staff; to ensure that ethics training requirements are completed on annual basis, to ensure the timely training of new employees and to require that all ethics training is interactive and mandated by law, not executive order. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section one adds a new article to the executive law establishing a mandatory ethics training requirement for all newly hired employees and requiring that seasoned employees be trained on an annual basis. This section also enumerates the specific sections of law that all employees must be trained on. The annual training must be, at minimum, two hours in duration.
2017-S919 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 919 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 5, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sens. CROCI, HANNON, ORTT, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance AN ACT to amend the public officers law, the legislative law and the executive law, in relation to mandatory ethics training for certain officers and employees of the state; and to repeal subdivision 10 of section 94 of the executive law relating thereto THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Article 4 of the public officers law is amended by adding a new section 59 to read as follows: § 59. MANDATORY ETHICS TRAINING. 1. THE FOLLOWING PERSONS SHALL ANNU- ALLY COMPLETE THE ETHICS TRAINING PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION: (A) EVERY EMPLOYEE OF A STATE AGENCY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SEVENTY-FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE; (B) EVERY LEGISLATIVE EMPLOYEE, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION SEVENTY-FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE; (C) EVERY EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW OR THE DEPARTMENT OF AUDIT AND CONTROL; (D) ALL OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES EMPLOYED IN THE EXECUTIVE CHAMBER; (E) EVERY MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE; AND (F) THE GOVERNOR, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE COMPTROLLER. 2. (A) THE ETHICS TRAINING REQUIRED BY THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, INSTRUCTION ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF: (I) SECTION SEVENTY-THREE OF THIS ARTICLE; (II) SECTION SEVENTY-THREE-A OF THIS ARTICLE; (III) SECTION SEVENTY-FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE; (IV) SECTION SEVENTY-FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE; (V) SECTION SEVENTY-FIVE-A OF THIS ARTICLE; (VI) SECTION SEVENTY-SEVEN-A OF THIS ARTICLE; EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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