Assembly Bill A2147

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Prohibits lobbyists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or higher level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three years

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A2147 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S485
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Legislative Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1-o, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S6533
2013-2014: S940
2015-2016: A7337, S1359
2017-2018: A6096, S1073
2021-2022: A6029, S2550
2023-2024: S3452

2019-A2147 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits lobbyists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or higher level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three years from the date of the conviction; provides the authority to extend suspensions; entitles such lobbyist to a hearing upon application for suspension extension.

2019-A2147 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2147
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 22, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the legislative law, in relation to prohibiting lobby-
   ists who are convicted of or plead guilty to class D felonies or high-
   er level crimes from acting as a lobbyist for a period of three  years
   from the date of the conviction
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1-o of the legislative law, as added by chapter  14
 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1-o. Penalties. (a) ANY LOBBYIST CONVICTED OF OR PLEADING GUILTY TO
 A CLASS D FELONY OR HIGHER LEVEL CRIME SHALL BE BARRED FROM ACTING AS  A
 LOBBYIST FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE CONVICTION.
   (B)  UPON  COMPLETION  THE COMMISSION SHALL RE-EVALUATE THE SUSPENSION
 AND DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT SUCH SUSPENSION SHOULD BE EXTENDED  FOR  AN
 ADDITIONAL  PERIOD OF TIME. IN NO EVENT SHALL SUCH EXTENSION BE FOR MORE
 THAN TWO MORE YEARS.  ANY  LOBBYIST  WISHING  TO  RE-REGISTER  WITH  THE
 COMMISSION  AND  RE-COMMENCE  HIS  OR  HER PRACTICE OF LOBBYING SHALL BE
 ENTITLED TO A HEARING UPON APPLICATION TO DETERMINE  IF  THE  SUSPENSION
 SHOULD BE EXTENDED UNDER THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (C)  (i) Any lobbyist, public corporation, or client who knowingly and
 wilfully fails to file timely a report or  statement  required  by  this
 section  or  knowingly and wilfully files false information or knowingly
 and wilfully violates section one-m of this article shall be guilty of a
 class A misdemeanor; and
   (ii) any lobbyist, public corporation, or  client  who  knowingly  and
 wilfully  fails  to  file  timely a report or statement required by this
 section or knowingly and wilfully files false information  or  knowingly
 and wilfully violates section one-m of this article, after having previ-
 ously  been convicted in the preceding five years of the crime described
 in paragraph (i) of this subdivision, shall be guilty of a class E felo-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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