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Senate Bill S2010

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project

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2023-S2010 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §74, Pub Off L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S5540
2025-2026: S4730

2023-S2010 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.

2023-S2010 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2010 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2010
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  prohibiting
   state  officers  and  employees from official involvement with a state
   project where the officer or employee acted as a  consultant  on  such
   project
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 74 of the public officers  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows:
   J. NO OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF A STATE AGENCY SHALL PERFORM ANY OFFICIAL
 DUTY  OR  FUNCTION,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  THE  EXERCISE  OF
 DISCRETION OR OTHER DECISION MAKING NORMALLY ATTENDANT  TO  HIS  OR  HER
 OFFICE,  OR  OTHERWISE  ACT  IN  ANY  OFFICIAL CAPACITY OR DISCHARGE ANY
 DUTIES WITH RESPECT TO A PROJECT FUNDED BY THE STATE WHERE SUCH  OFFICER
 OR  EMPLOYEE  HAS  PREVIOUSLY  ENTERED  INTO  A  CONTRACT FOR CONSULTING
 SERVICES INVOLVING SUCH PROJECT PRIOR TO HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT WITH SUCH
 STATE AGENCY. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, A "CONTRACT FOR CONSULT-
 ING SERVICES" SHALL MEAN ANY CONTRACT ENTERED INTO BY A STATE AGENCY FOR
 ANALYSIS, EVALUATION,  RESEARCH,  TRAINING,  DATA  PROCESSING,  COMPUTER
 PROGRAMMING,   ENGINEERING,   ENVIRONMENTAL  HEALTH  AND  MENTAL  HEALTH
 SERVICES, ACCOUNTING, AUDITING, PARALEGAL, LEGAL, OR SIMILAR SERVICES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05960-01-3

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