Assembly Bill A10590

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10590

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2010
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Introduced  by M. of A. TEDISCO, BALL, HAYES, KOLB -- Multi-Sponsored by
  -- M. of A. ALFANO, AMEDORE, BACALLES, BARCLAY, BARRA, BOYLE, BURLING,
  BUTLER, CALHOUN, CONTE, CROUCH, DUPREY,  ERRIGO,  FINCH,  FITZPATRICK,
  GIGLIO,  HAWLEY,  JORDAN,  P. LOPEZ,  McDONOUGH,  McKEVITT, J. MILLER,
  MOLINARO, OAKS,  O'MARA,  QUINN,  RABBITT,  RAIA,  REILICH,  SALADINO,
  SAYWARD, SCOZZAFAVA, SPANO, THIELE, TOWNSEND -- read once and referred
  to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the executive law and the state finance law, in relation
  to  amount  of judgment in an action by the people for illegal receipt
  or disposition of public funds or other property

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 63-c of the executive law, as
added by chapter 310 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:
  3. Any court of the state in which an action is brought by the  state,
as  prescribed in this section, may direct, by the final judgment there-
in, or by a subsequent order, that any money, funds,  damages,  credits,
or  other  property,  recovered  by or awarded to the plaintiff therein,
which, if that action had not been brought, would not have vested in the
state, be disposed of, as justice requires, in such a manner as to rein-
state the lawful custody thereof, or to apply the same or  the  proceeds
thereof to the objects and purposes for which they were authorized to be
raised  or  procured;  after  paying  into the state treasury out of the
proceeds of the recovery all expenses  incurred  by  the  state  in  the
action.  FURTHERMORE,  THE  COURT  SHALL  DIRECT  IN A FINAL JUDGMENT OR
SUBSEQUENT ORDER AWARDING MONEY, FUNDS, CREDIT OR OTHER PROPERTY TO  THE
PLAINTIFF  THEREIN WHERE THE STATE-OWNED OR HELD MONEY, FUNDS, CREDIT OR
OTHER PROPERTY CONSTITUTED FUNDING OR  SUPPORT  FOR  LEGISLATIVE  INITI-
ATIVES  PAYMENT INTO THE STATE TREASURY OF AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THREE-FOLD
THE AMOUNT OR VALUE OF SUCH STATE-OWNED OR HELD MONEY, FUNDS, CREDIT  OR
PROPERTY.
  S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 123-e of the state finance law, as added
by chapter 827 of the laws of 1975, is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  1.  The  court  may  grant  equitable  or declaratory relief, or both,
including, but not limited to: enjoining  the  activity  complained  of;
restitution to the state of those public funds disbursed or public prop-
erty  alienated,  INCLUDING  IN  THE  CASE OF PUBLIC FUNDS DISBURSED FOR
LEGISLATIVE  INITIATIVES,  COMPELLING  PAYMENT  OF  AN  AMOUNT  EQUAL TO
THREE-FOLD THE AMOUNT OF SUCH DISBURSED PUBLIC FUNDS;  in  the  case  of
public  property  wrongfully  alienated,  compelling payment of the full
market value; a declaration that a proposed disbursement  or  alienation
of  property  would  be illegal; and such other and further relief as to
the court may seem just and proper.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.