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Senate Bill S10483

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition

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2025-S10483 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Ethics And Internal Governance
Law Section:
Public Officers Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §73, Pub Off L

2025-S10483 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition placed on legislative employees.

2025-S10483 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10483
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 15, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 exempting
   student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of
 section 73 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter 14  of  the
 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   (iii)  No  person  who has served as a member of the legislature shall
 within a period of two years  after  the  termination  of  such  service
 receive  compensation  for  any  services on behalf of any person, firm,
 corporation or association to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly,
 the passage of bills or resolutions by either house of the  legislature.
 No  legislative  employee,  EXCEPT  FOR  STUDENT  INTERNS  PARTICIPATING
 THROUGH A COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OR LEGISLATIVE  PROGRAM,  shall  within  a
 period  of  two  years  after  the  termination  of such service receive
 compensation for any services on behalf of any person, firm, corporation
 or association to appear, practice or directly communicate before either
 house of the legislature to promote or oppose the passage  of  bills  or
 resolutions by either house of the legislature.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15932-01-6

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