New York A 4900: Prohibits members of the legislature from obtaining funding to provide to any business entities in which such members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold official or legal positions

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A04900 Summary:

BILL NOA04900 

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SPONSORLevenberg

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Amd §73, Pub Off L

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Prohibits members of the legislature from obtaining funding through state grants or member items and subsequently providing such funding to any business entities or not-for-profit entities in which such officials, members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold official or legal positions.

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02/10/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4900

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting
 members of the legislature from obtaining funding and providing such
 funds to any business entity or not-for-profit entities in which such
 officials, members, domestic partners or certain relatives hold offi-
 cial or legal positions

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 73 of the public officers law, as
 2 amended by section 5 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws of 2015, is
 3 amended and renumbered subdivision 19 and a new subdivision 18 is added
 4 to read as follows:
 5 18. No statewide elected official or member of the legislature shall
 6 obtain any funding through state grants or member items, and subsequent-
 7 ly provide such funds to any corporation, partnership, limited liability
 8 corporation, other business entity or not-for-profit entity in which
 9 such official, member or any relative by blood, marriage or adoption of
 10 such official or member, domestic partner or a person working in the
 11 employ of such member holds an official or legal position, including but
 12 not limited to working on an unpaid, volunteer basis.
 13 19. In addition to any penalty contained in any other provision of
 14 law, any person who knowingly and intentionally violates the provisions
 15 of subdivisions two through five, seven, seven-a, eight, twelve or four-
 16 teen through [seventeen] eighteen of this section shall be subject to a
 17 civil penalty in an amount not to exceed forty thousand dollars and the
 18 value of any gift, compensation or benefit received in connection with
 19 such violation. Assessment of a civil penalty hereunder shall be made by
 20 the state oversight body with jurisdiction over such person. A state
 21 oversight body acting pursuant to its jurisdiction, may, in lieu of a
 22 civil penalty, with respect to a violation of subdivisions two through

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08539-01-5

 A. 4900 2

 1 five, seven or eight of this section, refer a violation of any such
 2 subdivision to the appropriate prosecutor and upon such conviction such
 3 violation shall be punishable as a class A misdemeanor.
 4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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