New York A 2236: Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post judges' annual financial disclosures on the commission's website

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A02236 Summary:

BILL NOA02236 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSimon

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COSPNSRBurdick, Hevesi, Davila

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §211, Judy L

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Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.

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BILL NOA02236 

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01/15/2025referred to judiciary

01/07/2026referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2236

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, BURDICK, HEVESI, DAVILA -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring the ethics
 commission of the unified court system to post judges' annual finan-
 cial disclosures on the commission's website

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 211 of the judiciary law, as
 2 amended by chapter 188 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 4. (a) By September first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the chief
 5 judge, after consultation with the administrative board, shall approve a
 6 form of annual statement of financial disclosure which form shall apply
 7 to all judges, justices, officers and employees of the courts of record
 8 of the unified court system, who receive annual compensation at or above
 9 the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one of section
 10 seventy-three-a of the public officers law or are determined to hold a
 11 policy-making position pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated
 12 pursuant to this subdivision. Such form of annual statement of financial
 13 disclosure shall be substantially similar to the form set forth in
 14 subdivision three of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.
 15 Within one year after approval of such form, the chief judge shall cause
 16 the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules or regulations
 17 which require every judge, justice, officer and employee of the courts
 18 of record of the unified court system, who receives annual compensation
 19 at or above the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one
 20 of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law or is determined
 21 to hold a policy-making position, to report the information required by
 22 the approved form effective first with respect to a filing which shall
 23 be required in nineteen hundred ninety-one (generally applicable to
 24 information for the preceding calendar year) and thereafter, effective

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00802-01-5

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 1 for future annual filings. Such rules and regulations shall also provide
 2 for the determination, by the appointing authority, of policy-makers who
 3 shall be required to file the annual statement of financial disclosure
 4 required by this subdivision. Any judge, justice, officer or employee of
 5 the courts of record of the unified court system who, pursuant to such
 6 rules or regulations, is required to file a completed annual statement
 7 of financial disclosure and who makes such filing in accordance with the
 8 requirements contained in such rules or regulations, shall be deemed to
 9 have satisfied the requirements of any other law mandating the filing of
 10 a completed annual statement of financial disclosure for the applicable
 11 calendar year which might otherwise apply to such judges, justices,
 12 officers or employees, and no duplicate filing shall be required on
 13 account of any other such law, notwithstanding the provisions of such
 14 other law.
 15 (b) The ethics commission for the unified court system shall post on
 16 its website for public review for at least five years beginning for
 17 filings made on January first, two thousand eighteen, the annual state-
 18 ment of financial di