A00617 Summary:
| BILL NO | A00617A |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S02047-A |
| SPONSOR | Shimsky |
| COSPNSR | Reyes, Schiavoni, Levenberg, Glick, Sayegh |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd 1-c, Leg L | |
| Relates 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. | |
A00617 Actions:
| BILL NO | A00617A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/08/2025 | referred to governmental operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 05/21/2025 | amend and recommit to governmental operations | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 05/21/2025 | print number 617a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 05/27/2025 | reported referred to rules | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | reported | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | rules report cal.373 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | ordered to third reading rules cal.373 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | passed assembly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | delivered to senate | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 06/04/2025 | REFERRED TO RULES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A00617 Memo:
Go to topNEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
TITLE OF BILL: 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 PURPOSE: This legislation would exclude faculty at SUNY and CUNY from the defi- nition of covered employee as it relates to a reportable business relationship. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends 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. Specifically states that the term reportable business relationship shall not include an individual whose only state employment is through SUNY or CUNY as a professor, adjunct professor, lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor or similar teaching role and is employed in a similar role at the college or university that does not supervise other state employees or manage grant-funded projects or research. JUSTIFICATION: Under New York's lobby laws, disclosure of a business relationship is required to ensure conflicts of interest and ensure transparency. However, under this law there are unintended consequences that are created and not reflective of the goals of this important law. This legislation would exempt an individual whose only state employment is as a SUNY or CUNY professor who then is hired to teach at an independent college. The intent of the current law is to ensure policy making indi- viduals involved in State government must be transparent with their business relationships. However, a SUNY or CUNY professor is not in a policy making position. Having a SUNY or CUNY professor covered by this law results in an unnecessary cost and acts as a roadblock and disincen- tive to the hiring of these well qualified individuals. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2023-2024: S3506a/A6719a; Referred to Governmental Operations 2021-2022: S. 202/A. 5321; Veto 38 2019-2020: S. 6325/A. 8267; Referred to Governmental Operations FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
A00617 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 617--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SHIMSKY, REYES, SCHIAVONI, LEVENBERG, GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (w) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as 2 added by section 8 of part A of chapter 399 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (w) The term "reportable business relationship" shall mean a relation- 5 ship in which compensation is paid by a lobbyist or by a client of a 6 lobbyist, in exchange for any goods, services or anything of value, the 7 total value of which is in excess of one thousand dollars annually, to 8 be performed or provided by or intended to be performed or provided by 9 (i) any statewide elected official, state officer, state employee, 10 member of the legislature or legislative employee, or (ii) any entity in 11 which the lobbyist or the client of a lobbyist knows or has reason to 12 know the statewide elected official, state officer, state employee, 13 member of the legislature or legislative employee is a proprietor, part- 14 ner, director, officer or manager, or owns or controls ten percent or 15 more of the stock of such entity (or one percent in the case of a corpo- 16 ration whose stock is regularly traded on an established securities 17 exchange). Provided, however, that such term shall not include a 18 relationship between an individual and a college or university, as such 19 terms are defined in section two of the education law, when such indi- 20 vidual is employed by such college or university as a teaching profes- 21 sor, adjunct professor, lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, asso- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00242-05-5A. 617--A 2 1 ciate professor, or similar teaching role, when such individual's only 2 state employment is through the state university of New York or the city 3 university of New York as a teaching professor, adjunct professor, 4 lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, or simi- 5 lar teaching role that does not include the supervision of other state 6 employees or the management of grant-funded projects or research. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.