NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6325

Senate Bill S6325

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the term "reportable business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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Jan 08, 2020	referred to ethics and internal governance
Jun 05, 2019	referred to rules

2019-S6325 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A8267
Current Committee:: Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:: Legislative Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §1-c, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S202, A5321
2023-2024: S3606, A6719

2019-S6325 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the term "reportable business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state university of New York and the city university of New York.

2019-S6325 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6325

SPONSOR: KAPLAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the legislative law, in relation to
the term "reportable business relationship" as it relates to certain
employees of the state university of New York and the city university of
New York

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation would exclude faculty at SUNY and CUNY from the defi-
nition of covered employee as it relates to a reportable business
relationship.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends Subdivision (w) of Section 1-C of the legislative law,
as added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011.
Specifically states that the term reportable business relationship shall
not include any relationship between an individual and a college or
university when the individual's only state employment is through SUNY

or CUNY as a professor, adjunct professor, lecturer, instructor, assist-
ant professor, associate professor or similar teaching role and is
employed in a similar role at the college or university.

Section 2 is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Under New York's lobby laws, disclosure of a business relationship is
required to ensure conflicts of interest and ensure transparency. Howev-
er, under this law there are unintended consequences that are created
and not reflective of the goals of this important law. This legislation
would exempt an individual whose only state employment is as a SUNY or
CUNY professor who then is hired to teach at an independent college. The
intent of the current law is to ensure policy making individuals
involved in State government must be transparent with their business
relationships. However, a SUNY or CUNY professor is not in a making
policy making position. Having a SUNY or CUNY professor covered by this
law results in an unnecessary cost and acts as a roadblock and disincen-
tive to the hiring of these well qualified individuals.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New Bill.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S6325 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6325
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 5, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to the term "reportable
   business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state
   university of New York and the city university of New York

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as
 added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation-
 ship  in  which  compensation  is paid by a lobbyist or by a client of a
 lobbyist, in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value,  the
 total  value  of which is in excess of one thousand dollars annually, to
 be performed or provided by or intended to be performed or  provided  by
 (i)  any  statewide  elected  official,  state  officer, state employee,
 member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in
 which the lobbyist or the client of a lobbyist knows or  has  reason  to
 know  the  statewide  elected  official,  state officer, state employee,
 member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part-
 ner, director, officer or manager, or owns or controls  ten  percent  or
 more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo-
 ration  whose  stock  is  regularly  traded on an established securities
 exchange). PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  SUCH  TERM  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE  ANY
 RELATIONSHIP  BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, AS SUCH
 TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW, WHEN  SUCH  INDI-
 VIDUAL'S  ONLY  STATE  EMPLOYMENT IS THROUGH THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
 YORK OR THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AS A PROFESSOR, ADJUNCT  PROFES-
 SOR,  LECTURER, INSTRUCTOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, OR
 SIMILAR TEACHING ROLE AND IS EMPLOYED IN A SIMILAR ROLE AT  THE  COLLEGE
 OR UNIVERSITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13166-02-9

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