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                                    463
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  officers  law and the executive law, in
   relation to posting financial disclosure filings  for  candidates  for
   statewide office or candidates for a member of the legislature
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subdivision  2  of  section  73-a  of  the
 public officers law, as amended by section 7 of part QQ of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (k) The commission on ethics and lobbying in government shall post for
 at  least  five  years  beginning for filings made on January first, two
 thousand thirteen the annual statement of financial disclosure  and  any
 amendments filed by each person subject to the reporting requirements of
 this  subdivision  who  is  an elected official, CANDIDATE FOR STATEWIDE
 OFFICE OR CANDIDATE FOR A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE, on its website  for
 public  review  within  thirty  days of its receipt of such statement or
 within ten days of its receipt  of  such  amendment  that  reflects  any
 corrections  of  deficiencies  identified  by  the  commission or by the
 reporting individual after the reporting  individual's  initial  filing.
 Except  upon  an individual determination by the commission that certain
 information may be deleted from a reporting individual's  annual  state-
 ment  of  financial disclosure, none of the information in the statement
 posted on the commission's website shall be otherwise deleted.
   § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 13 of section 94  of  the  executive
 law, as added by section 2 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (b) The commission shall post on its website the following documents:
   (i)  the  information  set  forth  in an annual statement of financial
 disclosure filed pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public offi-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 cers law except information deleted pursuant to paragraph (g) of  subdi-
 vision  nine  of this section of statewide elected officials and members
 of the legislature, AND CANDIDATES  FOR  STATEWIDE  ELECTED  OFFICE  AND
 MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE;
   (ii)  notices  of  delinquency  sent  under  subdivision  nine of this
 section;
   (iii) notices of civil assessments imposed under  this  section  which
 shall include a description of the nature of the alleged wrongdoing, the
 procedural  history  of  the  complaint, the findings and determinations
 made by the commission, and any sanction imposed;
   (iv) the terms of any settlement  or  compromise  of  a  complaint  or
 referral which includes a fine, penalty or other remedy;
   (v)  those required to be held or maintained publicly available pursu-
 ant to article one-A of the legislative law; and
   (vi) reports issued by the commission pursuant to this section.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.