New York S 7125: Relates to establishing the crime of domestic violence

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S07125 Summary:

BILL NOS07125 

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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Amd §94, Exec L; amd §§1-o & 1-p, Leg L

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Subjects an individual who solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or intentionally aids or assists in illegal activities under the public officers law, the civil service law, or the legislative law relating to public officers to the same penalties as those who violate such provisions of law.

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BILL NOS07125 

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04/01/2025REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7125

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 1, 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 executive law and the legislative law, in relation
 to subjecting individuals who solicit, request, command, importune, or
 intentionally aid or assist others to engage in conduct that violates
 certain provisions of the public officers law, the civil service law,
 or the legislative law to the same penalties as those who perform the
 illegal activities

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (n) of subdivision 10 of section 94 of the execu-
 2 tive law, as added by section 2 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of
 3 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (n) (i) An individual subject to the jurisdiction of the commission
 5 who knowingly and intentionally violates the provisions of subdivisions
 6 two through five-a, seven, eight, twelve or fourteen through seventeen
 7 of section seventy-three of the public officers law, section one hundred
 8 seven of the civil service law, or a reporting individual who knowingly
 9 and willfully fails to file an annual statement of financial disclosure
 10 or who knowingly and willfully with intent to deceive makes a false
 11 statement or fraudulent omission or gives information which such indi-
 12 vidual knows to be false on such statement of financial disclosure filed
 13 pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public officers law, or an
 14 individual, acting with the mental culpability required for the commis-
 15 sion thereof, who solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or inten-
 16 tionally aids or assists another person to engage in any such conduct,
 17 shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed forty
 18 thousand dollars and the value of any gift, compensation or benefit
 19 received as a result of such violation.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10675-02-5

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 1 (ii) An individual who or an entity that knowingly and intentionally
 2 violates the provisions of paragraph a, b, c, d, e, g, or i of subdivi-
 3 sion three of section seventy-four of the public officers law, or an
 4 individual, acting with the mental culpability required for the commis-
 5 sion thereof, who solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or inten-
 6 tionally aids or assists another person to engage in such conduct, shall
 7 be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed ten thousand
 8 dollars and the value of any gift, compensation or benefit received as a
 9 result of such violation.
 10 (iii) An individual subject to the jurisdiction of the commission who
 11 knowingly and willfully violates article one-A of the legislative law,
 12 or an individual, acting with the mental culpability required for the
 13 commission thereof, who solicits, requests, commands, importunes, or
 14 intentionally aids or assists another person to engage in such conduct,
 15 shall be subject to civil penalty as provided for in that article.
 16 (iv) With respect to a potential violation of any criminal law where
 17 the commission finds sufficient cause by a majority vote, it shall refer
 18 such matter to the appropriate law enforcemen