NY State Senate Bill 2023-S9011

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

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Apr 09, 2024	referred to ethics and internal governance

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:: Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §73-a, Pub Off L

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires electronic filing of all financial disclosure statements with the commission on ethics and lobbying in government.

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9011

SPONSOR: SKOUFIS
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public officers law, in relation to requiring elec-
tronic filing of all financial disclosure statements

 
PURPOSE:

This bill is intended to facilitate expeditious and accurate transmittal
and processing of financial disclosure statements submitted to the
Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, and make the data
contained in those statements electronically readable and searchable by
members of the public.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Adds a new paragraph 1 to subdivision 2 of Section 73-a of
the Public Officers Law requiring all financial disclosure statements to
be filed, beginning with the statements due in calendar year 2025, on
the electronic filing system administered by the Commission on Ethics

and Lobbying in Government. The section also provides for access to the
Commission's online filing system and allows for exemption from the
electronic filing requirement for reason of disability or infirmity
preventing the completion of an electronic filing through the Commis-
sion's electronic filing system.

Section 2. Is the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Many handwritten financial disclosure statements are filed with the
Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, in contrast to the tens
of thousands of annual financial disclosure statements that are other-
wise filed electronically with the Commission by certain state officers
and employees in the executive branch of state government.  These paper
filings create an administrative burden for the Commission, as staff
must either enter the data into a database by hand-which slows down the
process of posting those financial disclosure statements on the Commis-
sion's website as required by law, or scan and upload the paper state-
ment in portable document format.  Paper filings that are digitized in a
portable document format for online posting are not electronically
searchable and, therefore, escape robust analysis using technology and
tools readily available to the Commission.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

Enactment of this bill will reduce administrative costs to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9011
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 9, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 public officers law, in relation to requiring  elec-
   tronic filing of all financial disclosure statements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 73-a of the public officers law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (l) to read as follows:
   (L) (I) BEGINNING WITH THE STATEMENT DUE IN CALENDAR YEAR TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-FIVE, ALL STATEMENTS SHALL BE SUBMITTED ON THE ELECTRONIC  FILING
 SYSTEM  ADMINISTERED BY THE COMMISSION ON ETHICS AND LOBBYING IN GOVERN-
 MENT.
   (II) ANY INDIVIDUAL REQUIRED TO FILE  A  STATEMENT  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 SECTION  MAY  REQUEST  FROM  THE  COMMISSION  ON  ETHICS AND LOBBYING IN
 GOVERNMENT OR THE INDIVIDUAL'S APPOINTING AUTHORITY ACCESS TO  AN  ELEC-
 TRONIC  COMPUTER  TERMINAL  TO  FILE  THE  STATEMENT.  AN INDIVIDUAL WHO
 REQUESTS SUCH ACCESS MUST BE PROVIDED ACCESS WITHIN TWO BUSINESS DAYS OF
 SUBMITTING THE REQUEST.
   (III) NO INDIVIDUAL SHALL BE DEEMED  NOT  TO  HAVE  TIMELY  FILED  THE
 STATEMENT IF ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER TERMINAL WAS NOT AVAILABLE
 AS PROVIDED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (I) OF THIS PARAGRAPH.
   (IV)  AN INDIVIDUAL MAY SUBMIT THE STATEMENT ON A FORM SUPPLIED BY THE
 COMMISSION ON ETHICS AND LOBBYING IN GOVERNMENT WITH A WRITTEN  ATTESTA-
 TION  FROM A PHYSICIAN OR OTHER LICENSED HEALTH PROVIDER INDICATING THAT
 THE INDIVIDUAL HAS A DISABILITY OR INFIRMITY PREVENTING  THE  INDIVIDUAL
 FROM  COMPLETING  THE STATEMENT ON THE ELECTRONIC FILING SYSTEM PROVIDED
 BY THE COMMISSION ON ETHICS AND LOBBYING IN GOVERNMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15095-01-4

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Senate Bill S9011

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Details

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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James Skoufis

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Ethics And Internal Governance Committee

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Details

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9011 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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