Assembly Bill A7739

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post judges' annual financial disclosures on the commission's website

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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
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2023-A7739 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1571
Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §211, Judy L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S9573

2023-A7739 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the ethics commission of the unified court system to post each state-paid judge's annual financial disclosures on the ethics commission's public website for five years beginning with filings made on January 1, 2018.

2023-A7739 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7739
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to requiring  the  ethics
   commission  of  the unified court system to post judges' annual finan-
   cial disclosures on the commission's website

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  211 of the judiciary law, as
 amended by chapter 188 of the laws of   1990,   is amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  (A)  By  September first, nineteen hundred eighty-eight, the chief
 judge, after consultation with the administrative board, shall approve a
 form of annual statement of financial disclosure which form shall  apply
 to  all judges, justices, officers and employees of the courts of record
 of the unified court system, who receive annual compensation at or above
 the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one  of  section
 seventy-three-a  of  the public officers law or are determined to hold a
 policy-making position pursuant to the rules and regulations promulgated
 pursuant to this subdivision. Such form of annual statement of financial
 disclosure shall be substantially similar  to  the  form  set  forth  in
 subdivision three of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law.
 Within one year after approval of such form, the chief judge shall cause
 the chief administrator of the courts to promulgate rules or regulations
 which  require  every judge, justice, officer and employee of the courts
 of record of the unified court system, who receives annual  compensation
 at  or above the filing rate defined by paragraph (l) of subdivision one
 of section seventy-three-a of the public officers law or  is  determined
 to  hold a policy-making position, to report the information required by
 the approved form effective first with respect to a filing  which  shall
 be  required  in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one (generally applicable to
 information for the preceding calendar year) and  thereafter,  effective
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05621-01-3
              

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