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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4857
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics
and Internal Governance
AN ACT to amend the public officers law and the executive law, in
relation to posting financial disclosure filings for candidates for
statewide office or candidates for a member of the legislature
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (k) of subdivision 2 of section 73-a of the
2 public officers law, as amended by section 7 of part QQ of chapter 56 of
3 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
4 (k) The commission on ethics and lobbying in government shall post for
5 at least five years beginning for filings made on January first, two
6 thousand thirteen the annual statement of financial disclosure and any
7 amendments filed by each person subject to the reporting requirements of
8 this subdivision who is an elected official, CANDIDATE FOR STATEWIDE
9 OFFICE OR CANDIDATE FOR A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE, on its website for
10 public review within thirty days of its receipt of such statement or
11 within ten days of its receipt of such amendment that reflects any
12 corrections of deficiencies identified by the commission or by the
13 reporting individual after the reporting individual's initial filing.
14 Except upon an individual determination by the commission that certain
15 information may be deleted from a reporting individual's annual state-
16 ment of financial disclosure, none of the information in the statement
17 posted on the commission's website shall be otherwise deleted.
18 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 13 of section 94 of the executive
19 law, as added by section 2 of part QQ of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022,
20 is amended to read as follows:
21 (b) The commission shall post on its website the following documents:
22 (i) the information set forth in an annual statement of financial
23 disclosure filed pursuant to section seventy-three-a of the public offi-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 cers law except information deleted pursuant to paragraph (g) of subdi-
2 vision nine of this section of statewide elected officials and members
3 of the legislature, AND CANDIDATES FOR STATEWIDE ELECTED OFFICE AND
4 MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE;
5 (ii) notices of delinquency sent under subdivision nine of this
6 section;
7 (iii) notices of civil assessments imposed under this section which
8 shall include a description of the nature of the alleged wrongdoing, the
9 procedural history of the complaint, the findings and determinations
10 made by the commission, and any sanction imposed;
11 (iv) the terms of any settlement or compromise of a complaint or
12 referral which includes a fine, penalty or other remedy;
13 (v) those required to be held or maintained publicly available pursu-
14 ant to article one-A of the legislative law; and
15 (vi) reports issued by the commission pursuant to this section.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.