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                                   1571
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sens. GIANARIS, THOMAS, BRESLIN, BRISPORT, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
   KRUEGER, MAY, MYRIE, RIVERA, SEPULVEDA, STAVISKY  --  read  twice  and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 be  required  in  nineteen  hundred  ninety-one (generally applicable to
 information for the preceding calendar year) and  thereafter,  effective
 for future annual filings. Such rules and regulations shall also provide
 for the determination, by the appointing authority, of policy-makers who
 shall  be  required to file the annual statement of financial disclosure
 required by this subdivision. Any judge, justice, officer or employee of
 the courts of record of the unified court system who, pursuant  to  such
 rules  or  regulations, is required to file a completed annual statement
 of financial disclosure and who makes such filing in accordance with the
 requirements contained in such rules or regulations, shall be deemed  to
 have satisfied the requirements of any other law mandating the filing of
 a  completed annual statement of financial disclosure for the applicable
 calendar year which might otherwise  apply  to  such  judges,  justices,
 officers  or  employees,  and  no  duplicate filing shall be required on
 account of any other such law, notwithstanding the  provisions  of  such
 other law.
   (B)  THE  ETHICS COMMISSION FOR THE UNIFIED COURT SYSTEM SHALL POST ON
 ITS WEBSITE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW FOR AT  LEAST  FIVE  YEARS  BEGINNING  FOR
 FILINGS  MADE ON JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, THE ANNUAL STATE-
 MENT OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE AND ANY AMENDMENTS  FILED  BY  EACH  PERSON
 SUBJECT  TO  THE  REPORTING  REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION WHO IS A
 STATE-PAID JUDGE OR JUSTICE, REGARDLESS OF HIS OR  HER  ANNUAL  RATE  OF
 COMPENSATION.  SUCH  STATEMENTS  SHALL  BE  POSTED WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF
 RECEIPT OF SUCH STATEMENT OR WITHIN TEN DAYS OF ITS RECEIPT OF AN AMEND-
 MENT THAT REFLECTS ANY CORRECTIONS OF  DEFICIENCIES  IDENTIFIED  BY  THE
 COMMISSION  OR  BY  THE  REPORTING  INDIVIDUAL  AFTER  SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S
 INITIAL FILING. EXCEPT UPON AN INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION BY  THE  COMMIS-
 SION  THAT  CERTAIN INFORMATION MAY BE DELETED FROM A REPORTING INDIVID-
 UAL'S ANNUAL STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE, NONE OF THE  INFORMATION
 IN  THE  STATEMENT POSTED ON THE COMMISSION'S WEBSITE SHALL BE OTHERWISE
 DELETED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.