Bill Text: NY S04730 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits state officers and employees from official involvement with a state project where the officer or employee acted as a consultant on such project.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S04730 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S04730-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4730

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 12, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  prohibiting
          state  officers  and  employees from official involvement with a state
          project where the officer or employee acted as a  consultant  on  such
          project

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 74 of the public officers  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows:
     3    j. No officer or employee of a state agency shall perform any official
     4  duty  or  function,  including  but  not  limited  to  the  exercise  of
     5  discretion or other decision making normally attendant to such officer's
     6  or employee's office, or otherwise  act  in  any  official  capacity  or
     7  discharge any duties with respect to a project funded by the state where
     8  such  officer  or  employee  has  previously entered into a contract for
     9  consulting services involving such project prior to  such  officer's  or
    10  employee's  employment  with such state agency. For the purposes of this
    11  section, a "contract for consulting services" shall  mean  any  contract
    12  entered  into  by  a  state  agency  for analysis, evaluation, research,
    13  training, data processing, computer programming,  engineering,  environ-
    14  mental  health and mental health services, accounting, auditing, parale-
    15  gal, legal, or similar services.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09262-01-5