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This bill requires the Joint Commission on Public Ethics to create and publish guidelines for commission members' conduct when interacting with public officials and servants.
Why it matters
Promotes transparency and accountability. By requiring the Commission to publish conduct guidelines, the bill ensures that commission members’ interactions with public officials and servants are open to public scrutiny, reducing the risk of inappropriate or unethical behavior.
Addresses both professional and private interactions. The guidelines would cover not just official meetings but also informal or private contacts, closing loopholes that could allow undue influence or conflicts of interest to go unregulated.
Provides a clear ethical framework. The measure gives commission members a standardized set of expectations, which can prevent misunderstandings, ensure fairness in investigations or decisions, and increase public confidence in the Commission’s integrity.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1613
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the joint commission on public ethics to oversee the conduct of commission members in their interactions with certain public officials and public servants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 94 of the executive law is amended by adding a new paragraph (c-1) to read as follows:
(c-1) Adopt, amend and rescind internal guidelines governing commission members conduct in their interactions with public officials and public servants with whom they have contact, both professionally and privately. The guidelines shall be published on the website maintained by the commission.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05111-01-9
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