New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A00463 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/08/2025

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 463 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the executive law, in relation to posting financial disclosure filings for candidates for statewide office or candidates for a member of the legislature The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subdivision 2 of section 73-a of the 2 public officers law, as amended by section 7 of part QQ of chapter 56 of 3 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 4 (k) The commission on ethics and lobbying in government shall post for 5 at least five years beginning for filings made on January first, two 6 thousand thirteen the annual statement of financial disclosure and any 7 amendments filed by each person subject to the reporting requirements of 8 this subdivision who is an elected official, candidate for statewide 9 office or candidate for a member of the legislature, on its website for 10 public review within thirty days of its receipt of such statement or 11 within ten days of its receipt of such amendment that reflects any 12 corrections of deficiencies identified by the commission or by the 13 reporting individual after the reporting individual's initial filing. 14 Except upon an individual determination by the commission that certain 15 information may be deleted from a reporting individual's annual state- 16 ment of financial disclosure, none of the information in the statement 17 posted on the commission's website shall be otherwise deleted. 18 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 13 of section 94 of the executive 19 law, as added by section 2 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, 20 is amended to read as follows: 21 (b) The commission shall post on its website the following documents: 22 (i) the information set forth in an annual statement of financial 23 disclosure filed pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public offi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02129-01-5 

 A. 463 2 1 cers law except information deleted pursuant to paragraph (g) of subdi- 2 vision nine of this section of statewide elected officials and members 3 of the legislature, and candidates for statewide elected office and 4 member of the legislature; 5 (ii) notices of delinquency sent under subdivision nine of this 6 section; 7 (iii) notices of civil assessments imposed under this section which 8 shall include a description of the nature of the alleged wrongdoing, the 9 procedural history of the complaint, the findings and determinations 10 made by the commission, and any sanction imposed; 11 (iv) the terms of any settlement or compromise of a complaint or 12 referral which includes a fine, penalty or other remedy; 13 (v) those required to be held or maintained publicly available pursu- 14 ant to article one-A of the legislative law; and 15 (vi) reports issued by the commission pursuant to this section. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.