Assembly Bill A2975

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the eligibility of individuals appointed to JCOPE

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A2975 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S921
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §94, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7353
2019-2020: A1611
2021-2022: A4810

2017-A2975 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that an individual who is appointed to the joint commission on public ethics is ineligible for appointment if he or she has been a NYS registered lobbyist, an elected official, or a state officer or employee, or legislative employee within the last ten years.

2017-A2975 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2975
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to the eligibility of
   individuals appointed to JCOPE
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  94  of the executive law, as
 amended by section 6 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   2.  The members of the commission shall be appointed as follows: three
 members shall be appointed by the temporary  president  of  the  senate,
 three  members  shall  be  appointed by the speaker of the assembly, one
 member shall be appointed by the minority  leader  of  the  senate,  one
 member  shall  be  appointed by the minority leader of the assembly, and
 six members shall be appointed by the governor and the lieutenant gover-
 nor. In the event that a vacancy arises with respect to a member of  the
 commission  first  appointed  pursuant to the chapter of the laws of two
 thousand eleven which amended this subdivision by a legislative  leader,
 the  legislative  leaders  of the same political party in the same house
 shall appoint a member to fill such vacancy irrespective of whether that
 legislative leader's political party is in the majority or minority.  Of
 the  members  appointed  by the governor and the lieutenant governor, at
 least three members shall be and shall have  been  for  at  least  three
 years  enrolled members of the major political party in which the gover-
 nor is not enrolled. In the event of a vacancy in a position  previously
 appointed  by  the  governor  and  lieutenant governor, the governor and
 lieutenant governor shall appoint a member of the same  political  party
 as  the member that vacated that position. Prior to making their respec-
 tive appointments, the governor and  the  lieutenant  governor  and  the
 legislative  leaders  shall  solicit  and  receive  recommendations  for
 appointees from the attorney general and the comptroller of the state of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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