NY State Senate Bill 2017-S921

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Jan 03, 2018	referred to finance
Jan 05, 2017	referred to finance

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2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2975
Current Committee:: Senate Finance
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §94, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S7353
2019-2020: A1611
2021-2022: A4810

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an individual who is appointed to the joint commission on public ethics is ineligible for appointment if he or she has been a NYS registered lobbyist, an elected official, or a state officer or employee, or legislative employee within the last ten years.

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S921

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the eligibility of
individuals appointed to JCOPE

 PURPOSE :

This bill expands the length of time of the current temporary ban
against certain individuals serving as members of JCOPE and includes
any individual elected to office in the temporary ban, not just those
elected to statewide office.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

Section one increases from three years to ten years, the prohibition
against lobbyists, elected officials and commissioners serving as
members of JCOPE. Further, this section expands the elected official
prohibition to include any elected officials, as opposed to just
covering state-wide elected officials. Additionally, this section
increases the prohibition against legislative or state officers or
employees from serving, from one year to ten years.

Section two provides that this act shall take effect immediately.

 JUSTIFICATION :

After accepting public comment, the New York Ethics Review Commission
issued a report and recommendations concerning JCOPE and the
Legislative Ethics Commission on November 1, 2015. One of the
complaints that was noted in the report was that members of the public
felt strongly that current elected officials should be barred from
serving on as a member of JCOPE. The Review Commission agreed and
provided that current elected officials who are under the jurisdiction
of JCOPE should be barred. This bill will accomplish that
recommendation, by expanding the ban on statewide elected officials
from serving to include all elected officials.

Furthermore, in order to better allow JCOPE to function independently,
and in order to restore public trust, legislative and Executive branch
employees should have a cooling off period, before serving on this
imperative oversight Commission. This will help to ensure that the
mission of the Commission is carried out without outside influence,
and will help to restore public trust in our state government,
generally.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

S7353 of 2015/16: Referred to Finance

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the State.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect immediately.

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    921
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  CROCI,  AKSHAR,  ORTT,  SERINO  -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Finance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to the eligibility of
   individuals appointed to JCOPE
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  94  of the executive law, as
 amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   2.  The members of the commission shall be appointed as follows: three
 members shall be appointed by the temporary  president  of  the  senate,
 three  members  shall  be  appointed by the speaker of the assembly, one
 member shall be appointed by the minority  leader  of  the  senate,  one
 member  shall  be  appointed by the minority leader of the assembly, and
 six members shall be appointed by the governor and the lieutenant gover-
 nor. In the event that a vacancy arises with respect to a member of  the
 commission  first  appointed  pursuant to the chapter of the laws of two
 thousand eleven which amended this subdivision by a legislative  leader,
 the  legislative  leaders  of the same political party in the same house
 shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy irrespective of whether that
 legislative leader's political party is in the majority or minority.  Of
 the  members  appointed  by the governor and the lieutenant governor, at
 least three members shall be and shall have  been  for  at  least  three
 years  enrolled members of the major political party in which the gover-
 nor is not enrolled. In the event of a vacancy in a position  previously
 appointed  by  the  governor  and  lieutenant governor, the governor and
 lieutenant governor shall appoint a member of the same  political  party
 as  the member that vacated that position. Prior to making their respec-
 tive appointments, the governor and  the  lieutenant  governor  and  the
 legislative  leaders  shall  solicit  and  receive  recommendations  for

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

                                                            LBD01769-01-7

 S. 921                              2
 
 appointees from the attorney general and the comptroller of the state of
 New York, which recommendations shall be fully and  properly  considered
 but shall not be binding.
   No  individual  shall  be  eligible for appointment as a member of the
 commission who currently or within the last [three] TEN years:
   (i) is or has been registered as a lobbyist in New York state;
   (ii) is or has been a member of the New York state legislature, IS  or
 [a  statewide] HAS BEEN AN elected official OF ANY CAPACITY or a commis-
 sioner of an executive agency appointed by the governor; or
   (iii) is or has been a political party chairman, as defined  in  para-
 graph (k) of subdivision one of section seventy-three of this article.
   No  individual  shall  be  eligible for appointment as a member of the
 commission who currently or within the last [year] TEN YEARS is  or  has
 been  a  state officer or employee or legislative employee as defined in
 section seventy-three of the public officers law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S921

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

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2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Sponsored By

Thomas D. Croci

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance Committee

co-Sponsors

Fred Akshar

Robert G. Ortt

Susan Serino

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S921 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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