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                                   1052
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, GALEF, SEAWRIGHT, D'URSO, JAFFEE, SIMO-
   TAS, THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, SCHIMMINGER
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing crimes relat-
   ing to official misconduct for obtaining a benefit

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 195.00 of the penal law, as
 amended  by  chapter  906  of  the  laws of 1990, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. He OR SHE commits an act relating to his OR HER office but  consti-
 tuting  an unauthorized exercise of his OR HER official functions, know-
 ing that such act is unauthorized; or
   2. He OR SHE knowingly  refrains  from  performing  a  duty  which  is
 imposed  upon  him OR HER by law or is clearly inherent in the nature of
 his OR HER office.
   § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new  sections  195.03  and
 195.04 to read as follows:
 § 195.03 OFFICIAL  MISCONDUCT  FOR  OBTAINING  A  BENEFIT  IN THE SECOND
            DEGREE.
   A PUBLIC SERVANT IS GUILTY OF  OFFICIAL  MISCONDUCT  FOR  OBTAINING  A
 BENEFIT  IN  THE SECOND DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS THE CRIME OF OFFI-
 CIAL MISCONDUCT AND HE OR SHE THEREBY INTENTIONALLY OBTAINS ANY  BENEFIT
 FOR  HIMSELF  OR HERSELF OR FOR ANOTHER PERSON OR INTENTIONALLY DEPRIVES
 ANOTHER PERSON OF A BENEFIT, AND THE VALUE OF THE  BENEFIT  EXCEEDS  ONE
 THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   OFFICIAL  MISCONDUCT FOR OBTAINING A BENEFIT IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A
 CLASS E FELONY.
 § 195.04 OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT  FOR  OBTAINING  A  BENEFIT  IN  THE  FIRST
            DEGREE.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03409-01-9
              

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   A  PUBLIC  SERVANT  IS  GUILTY  OF OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT FOR OBTAINING A
 BENEFIT IN THE FIRST DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS THE CRIME OF OFFICIAL
 MISCONDUCT FOR OBTAINING A BENEFIT IN THE SECOND DEGREE, AND  THE  VALUE
 OF THE BENEFIT EXCEEDS THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   OFFICIAL  MISCONDUCT  FOR OBTAINING A BENEFIT IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A
 CLASS D FELONY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.