Senate Bill S5169

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring certain individuals to file financial disclosure forms

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S5169 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73-a, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7362
2023-2024: S3507

2025-S5169 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain individuals to file financial disclosure forms.

2025-S5169 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5169 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5169
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
   nance
 
 AN ACT to amend the  public  officers  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   certain individuals to file financial disclosure forms

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of paragraph (a) 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:
   Every statewide elected official, state officer or employee, member of
 the  legislature,  legislative employee and political party chair [and],
 every candidate for statewide elected office or for member of the legis-
 lature, AND ANY MEMBER OF A REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL  (EVEN
 IF  SUCH MEMBER IS A VOLUNTEER) shall file an annual statement of finan-
 cial disclosure containing the information and in the form set forth  in
 subdivision three of this section. On or before the fifteenth day of May
 with  respect  to  the  preceding calendar year: (1) every member of the
 legislature, every candidate for member of the legislature and  legisla-
 tive  employee  shall  file  such  statement with the legislative ethics
 commission which shall provide such statement along  with  any  requests
 for  exemptions or deletions to the commission on ethics and lobbying in
 government for filing and rulings with  respect  to  such  requests  for
 exemptions or deletions, on or before the thirtieth day of June; and (2)
 all other individuals required to file such statement shall file it with
 the commission on ethics and lobbying in government, except that:
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of June next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08897-01-5

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