Senate Bill S2047A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  2047--A
     Cal. No. 1021
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. WEBB, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and
   Internal Governance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
   to first and second report, ordered to a third  reading,  amended  and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 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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 S. 2047--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.