New York S 1699: Prohibits certain functions whenever the legislature is in session

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S01699 Summary:

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Add §1-m-1, amd §1-o, Leg L; amd §14-126, El L

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Prohibits certain functions within a fifteen mile radius of the New York state Capitol whenever the legislature is in session.

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1699

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 legislative law and the election law, in relation to
 prohibiting certain functions whenever the legislature is in session

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

 1 Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section
 2 1-m-1 to read as follows:
 3 § 1-m-1. Certain functions prohibited within a fifteen mile radius of
 4 the New York state Capitol. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
 5 contrary, no person or entity shall hold, participate in, or attend a
 6 function designed to solicit funds that are subject to the reporting
 7 requirements of article fourteen of the election law within a fifteen
 8 mile radius of the New York state Capitol whenever the legislature is in
 9 session.
 10 § 2. Subdivision (a) and paragraphs (i) and (iv) of subdivision (b) of
 11 section 1-o of the legislative law, as added by chapter 14 of the laws
 12 of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
 13 (a) (i) Any lobbyist, public corporation, or client who knowingly and
 14 wilfully fails to file timely a report or statement required by this
 15 section or knowingly and wilfully files false information or knowingly
 16 and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this article shall
 17 be guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and
 18 (ii) any lobbyist, public corporation, or client who knowingly and
 19 wilfully fails to file timely a report or statement required by this
 20 section or knowingly and wilfully files false information or knowingly
 21 and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this article, after
 22 having previously been convicted in the preceding five years of the
 23 crime described in paragraph (i) of this subdivision, shall be guilty of
 24 a class E felony. Any lobbyist convicted of or pleading guilty to a

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04944-01-5

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 1 felony under the provisions of this section may be barred from acting as
 2 a lobbyist for a period of one year from the date of the conviction. For
 3 the purposes of this subdivision, the chief administrative officer of
 4 any organization required to file a statement or report shall be the
 5 person responsible for making and filing such statement or report unless
 6 some other person prior to the due date thereof has been duly designated
 7 to make and file such statement or report.
 8 (i) A lobbyist, public corporation, or client who knowingly and
 9 wilfully fails to file a statement or report within the time required
 10 for the filing of such report or knowingly and wilfully violates section
 11 one-m or one-m-one of this article shall be subject to a civil penalty
 12 for each such failure or violation, in an amount not to exceed the
 13 greater of twenty-five thousand dollars or three times the amount the
 14 person failed to report properly or unlawfully contributed, expended,
 15 gave or received, to be assessed by the commission.
 16 (iv) Any lobbyist or client that knowingly and wilfully fails to file
 17 a statement or report within the time required for the filing of such
 18 report, knowingly and wilfully files a false statement or report, or
 19 knowingly and wilfully violates section one-m or one-m-one of this arti-
 20 cle, after having been found by the commis