New York S 2047: 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

Status: REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 2047

Sponsors: Lea Webb, Brad Hoylman-Sigal

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S02047 Summary:

BILL NOS02047A

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SAME ASSAME AS A00617-A

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SPONSORWEBB

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COSPNSRHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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Amd §1-c, Leg L

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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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BILL NOS02047A

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01/15/2025REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1021

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/19/2025AMENDED ON THIRD READING 2047A

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2047--A
 Cal. No. 1021

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. WEBB, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered print-
 ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and
 Internal Governance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
 to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and
 ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as
 2 added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation-
 5 ship in which compensation is paid by a lobbyist or by a client of a
 6 lobbyist, in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value, the
 7 total value of which is in excess of one thousand dollars annually, to
 8 be performed or provided by or intended to be performed or provided by
 9 (i) any statewide elected official, state officer, state employee,
 10 member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in
 11 which the lobbyist or the client of a lobbyist knows or has reason to
 12 know the statewide elected official, state officer, state employee,
 13 member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part-
 14 ner, director, officer or manager, or owns or controls ten percent or
 15 more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo-
 16 ration whose stock is regularly traded on an established securities
 17 exchange). Provided, however, that such term shall not include a
 18 relationship between an individual and a college or university, as such
 19 terms are defined in section two of the education law, when such indi-
 20 vidual is employed by such college or university as a teaching profes-
 21 sor, adjunct professor, lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, asso-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00242-04-5

 S. 2047--A 2

 1 ciate professor, or similar teaching role, when such individual's only
 2 state employment is through the state university of New York or the city
 3 university of New York as a teaching professor, adjunct professor,
 4 lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or simi-
 5 lar teaching role that does not include the supervision of other state
 6 employees or the management of grant-funded projects or research.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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