Bill Text: NY A06178 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a statewide elected official, state officer or employee, member of the legislature or legislative employee to use state aircraft for political purposes; provides a violation of such restriction constitutes a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A06178 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06178-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6178

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to political use of
          state aircraft by certain state officers and employees

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 18 of section 73 of the public officers law, as
     2  amended by section 5 of part CC of chapter 56 of the laws  of  2015,  is
     3  renumbered  subdivision 19 and amended and a new subdivision 18 is added
     4  to read as follows:
     5    18. No statewide elected official, state officer or  employee,  member
     6  of  the legislature or legislative employee may use or direct the use of
     7  state aircraft for political purposes.
     8    19. In addition to any penalty contained in  any  other  provision  of
     9  law,  any person who knowingly and intentionally violates the provisions
    10  of subdivisions two through five, seven, seven-a, eight, twelve or four-
    11  teen through [seventeen] eighteen of this section shall be subject to  a
    12  civil  penalty in an amount not to exceed forty thousand dollars and the
    13  value of any gift, compensation [or], benefit [received] or use of state
    14  aircraft in connection with such violation. Assessment of a civil penal-
    15  ty hereunder shall be made by the state oversight body with jurisdiction
    16  over such person.  A state oversight body acting pursuant to its  juris-
    17  diction, may, in lieu of a civil penalty, with respect to a violation of
    18  subdivisions  two  through  five,  seven [or], eight or eighteen of this
    19  section, refer a violation of any such subdivision  to  the  appropriate
    20  prosecutor  and  upon such conviction such violation shall be punishable
    21  as a class A misdemeanor.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07569-01-3