S 10483 NY
Exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition
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Summary
This New York bill exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition that applies to legislative employees. Currently, legislative employees are prohibited from receiving compensation for services to promote or oppose legislation for two years after their service ends. The bill adds an exception for student interns who participate through a college, university, or legislative program, allowing them to engage in lobbying activities immediately after their internship ends. The bill takes effect thirty days after enactment.
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Exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition placed on legislative employees.
Sponsor (1)
- Luis R. Sepúlveda Democratic · primary
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE · upper
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S10483 Summary: BILL NO S10483   SAME AS No Same As   SPONSOR SEPULVEDA   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §73, Pub Off L   Exempts student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition placed on legislative employees.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10483
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 exempting student interns from the two-year lobbying prohibition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 8 of 2 section 73 of the public officers law, as amended by chapter 14 of the 3 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 4 (iii) No person who has served as a member of the legislature shall 5 within a period of two years after the termination of such service 6 receive compensation for any services on behalf of any person, firm, 7 corporation or association to promote or oppose, directly or indirectly, 8 the passage of bills or resolutions by either house of the legislature. 9 No legislative employee , except for student interns participating 10 through a college, university or legislative program, shall within a 11 period of two years after the termination of such service receive 12 compensation for any services on behalf of any person, firm, corporation 13 or association to appear, practice or directly communicate before either 14 house of the legislature to promote or oppose the passage of bills or 15 resolutions by either house of the legislature. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15932-01-6
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