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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 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.
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