Assembly Bill A617

                             
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                                  617--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. SHIMSKY, REYES, SCHIAVONI, LEVENBERG, GLICK --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations  --
   committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
   recommitted to said committee

 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  A
 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  IS  EMPLOYED BY SUCH COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY AS A TEACHING PROFES-
 SOR, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, LECTURER, INSTRUCTOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSO-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 A. 617--A                           2
 
 CIATE PROFESSOR, OR SIMILAR TEACHING ROLE, WHEN SUCH  INDIVIDUAL'S  ONLY
 STATE EMPLOYMENT IS THROUGH THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK OR THE CITY
 UNIVERSITY  OF  NEW  YORK  AS  A  TEACHING PROFESSOR, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR,
 LECTURER, INSTRUCTOR, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, OR SIMI-
 LAR  TEACHING  ROLE THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THE SUPERVISION OF OTHER STATE
 EMPLOYEES OR THE MANAGEMENT OF GRANT-FUNDED PROJECTS OR RESEARCH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.