Bill Text: NY S02505 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2505 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires additional disclosures from lobbyists including: campaign contributions to elected officials; existing business relationships or associations with public officials; and the names of family members of a public official to whom the lobbyist, or his or her employer, paid compensation of over $500 in the preceding calendar year and the amount of compensation paid; provides for the disposition of campaign funds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-01 - PRINT NUMBER 2505A [S02505 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02505-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2505--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 26, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, ADDABBO, AVELLA, HOYLMAN, PERKINS, SERRANO,
          SQUADRON  --  read  twice  and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommitted to the  Committee
          on  Finance  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the legislative law and the election law, in relation to
          disclosures required for lobbyists, and to amend the election law  and
          the  public  officers  law, in relation to campaign funds for personal
          use
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Lobbyist
     2  Disclosure Campaign Fund Act".
     3    § 2. Section 1-c of the legislative law is amended  by  adding  a  new
     4  subdivision (x) to read as follows:
     5    (x)  The term "family member" shall mean any of the following, includ-
     6  ing  parents,  stepparents,  spouse,  domestic  partners,  grandparents,
     7  brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts, whether of the whole blood or half
     8  blood or by or through legal sanction.
     9    § 3.  Paragraph 5 of subdivision (b) of section 1-h of the legislative
    10  law is amended by adding two new subparagraphs (vi) and (vii) to read as
    11  follows:
    12    (vi)  the campaign contributions made, in any form, to any campaign or
    13  political committee in New York state by the client by whom or on  whose
    14  behalf  the  lobbyist is retained, employed or designated, by the lobby-
    15  ist, and by any employees of the lobbyist.
    16    (vii) the amount of compensation paid and  the  names  of  any  family
    17  members  of  a public official to whom a lobbyist and the client by whom
    18  or on whose behalf the lobbyist is retained, employed or designated  has
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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