The New York State Senate

 
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                                    202
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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, in relation to the term "reportable
   business relationship" as it relates to certain employees of the state
   university of New York and the city university of New York
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as
 added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of  the  laws  of  2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation-
 ship  in  which  compensation  is paid by a lobbyist or by a client of a
 lobbyist, in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value,  the
 total  value  of which is in excess of one thousand dollars annually, to
 be performed or provided by or intended to be performed or  provided  by
 (i)  any  statewide  elected  official,  state  officer, state employee,
 member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in
 which the lobbyist or the client of a lobbyist knows or  has  reason  to
 know  the  statewide  elected  official,  state officer, state employee,
 member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part-
 ner, director, officer or manager, or owns or controls  ten  percent  or
 more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo-
 ration  whose  stock  is  regularly  traded on an established securities
 exchange). PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  SUCH  TERM  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE  ANY
 RELATIONSHIP  BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL AND A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, AS SUCH
 TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW, WHEN  SUCH  INDI-
 VIDUAL'S  ONLY  STATE  EMPLOYMENT IS THROUGH THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW
 YORK OR THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AS A PROFESSOR, ADJUNCT  PROFES-
 SOR,  LECTURER, INSTRUCTOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, OR
 SIMILAR TEACHING ROLE AND IS EMPLOYED IN A SIMILAR ROLE AT  THE  COLLEGE
 OR UNIVERSITY.

   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01273-01-1