File #: Int 1263-2025    Version: Name: Communications in adjudicative proceedings by certain public servants.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation
On agenda: 4/24/2025
Enactment date: 5/24/2025 Law number: 2025/076
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to communications in adjudicative proceedings by certain public servants
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Chris Banks, Darlene Mealy
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would amend the New York City Charter to preserve the right of former public servants to communicate with City agencies or government offices as part of an appearance in a legal proceeding in front of another agency, office, or court.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1263, 2. Int. No. 1263, 3. Committee Report 4/16/25, 4. Hearing Testimony 4/16/25, 5. Hearing Transcript 4/16/25, 6. Proposed Int. No. 1263-A - 4/17/25, 7. Committee Report 4/24/25, 8. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 9. April 24, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 10. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-24-25, 11. Int. No. 1263-A (FINAL), 12. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
5/27/2025ALincoln Restler City Council Returned Unsigned by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/24/2025ALincoln Restler Administration City Charter Rule Adopted  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025ALincoln Restler City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025ALincoln Restler City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*Lincoln Restler City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025ALincoln Restler City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/24/2025ALincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/16/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Finance P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/16/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Finance Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/16/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation P-C Item Laid Over by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/16/2025*Lincoln Restler Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation Hearing on P-C Item by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available

Preconsidered Int. No. 1263-A

 

By Council Members Restler, Gutiérrez, Banks and Mealy

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to communications in adjudicative proceedings by certain public servants

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 3 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:

3.  The prohibitions set forth in [subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) of] paragraph 2 of this subdivision shall not be deemed to prohibit a former public servant from making communications with the agency served by the public servant, or with any agency in the branch of city government [served by the public servant], as applicable, which are incidental to an otherwise permitted appearance in an adjudicative proceeding before another agency or body, or a court, unless the proceeding was pending in the agency served during the period of the public servant's service with such agency or in any agency in the branch of city government served during the period of the public servant's service, as applicable.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect immediately and is retroactive to and deemed to have been in effect on the same date that local law 11 for the year 2025 took effect.

 

 

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