File #: Int 0077-2024    Version: Name: Post-employment activities of certain former public servants.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to post-employment activities of certain former public servants
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Julie Won, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Chi A. Ossé, Robert F. Holden, Shekar Krishnan, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Nantasha M. Williams, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Gale A. Brewer, Tiffany Cabán, Sandy Nurse, Carlina Rivera , Chris Banks, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Summary: This bill would reform the current system under which former city employees and public servants are allowed to lobby city government after they have left city service. Under this bill, several former agency heads and employees of the Mayor’s Office including the Chief of Staff to the Mayor, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Mayor, Chief Counsel to the Mayor, Chief Advisor to the Mayor, Senior Advisor to the Mayor, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, Communications Director, Press Secretary, and any public servant who directly reports to the mayor would be barred from lobbying any city agency for two years. This bill would also bar Chiefs of Staff to a Deputy Mayor and Deputy Chiefs of Staff to the Mayor from lobbying any agency for one year.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 77-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 77, 3. Int. No. 77, 4. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 8, 2024, 7. Committee Report 4/19/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/19/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/19/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 77-A - 1/16/24, 11. Committee Report 1/23/25, 12. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 13. Fiscal Impact Statement - Council, 14. Hearing Testimony 1/23/25, 15. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 16. January 23, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 17. Hearing Transcript 1/23/25
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1/23/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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4/19/2024*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 77-A

 

By Council Members Restler, Won, Gutiérrez, De La Rosa, Ossé, Holden, Krishnan, Sanchez, Williams, Avilés, Hanif, Hudson, Brewer, Cabán, Nurse, Rivera, Banks and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to post-employment activities of certain former public servants

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision d of section 2604 of the New York city charter, as amended by a vote of the electors on November 5, 2019, is amended to read as follows:

2. (a) No former public servant, other than those public servants listed in subparagraphs (b), [and] (c), and (d) of this paragraph, shall, within a period of one year after termination of such person's service with the city, appear before the city agency served by such public servant.

(b) The following former public servants shall not, within a period of two years after termination of their service with the city, appear before the city agency they served:

(1) any head of an agency that is not a board or commission, other than the agency heads listed in subparagraph [(c)] (d) of this paragraph;

(2) the executive director or the highest ranking public servant employed by a board or commission; and

(3) any paid member of a board or commission.

(c) The following former public servants shall not, within a period of one year after termination of their service with the city, appear before any agency in the branch of city government they served: chief of staff to a deputy mayor and deputy chief of staff to the mayor.

 (d) The following former public servants shall not, within a period of two years after termination of their service with the city, appear before any agency in the branch of city government they served:

(1) any elected official; [and]

(2) the holder of the position of deputy mayor, director of the office of management and budget, commissioner of citywide administrative services, corporation counsel, commissioner of finance, commissioner of investigation, commissioner of buildings, commissioner of design and construction, commissioner of housing preservation and development, commissioner of transportation, chancellor of the city school district, and chair of the city planning commission; and

(3) the holder of the following positions in the executive office of the mayor: chief of staff to the mayor, chief counsel to the mayor, chief advisor to the mayor, senior advisor to the mayor, director of intergovernmental affairs, communications director, press secretary, and any public servant who directly reports to the mayor.

For the purposes of this subparagraph [(c)] (d), the legislative branch of the city consists of the council and the offices of the council, and the executive branch of the city consists of all other agencies of the city, including the office of the public advocate.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law; provided, however, that the amendments this local law makes to section 2604 shall only apply to public servants, as that term is defined in section 2601 of the New York city charter, who leave service with the city after such date.

 

 

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