STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7163 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BUCHWALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to penalties for false statements made by lobbyists, public corporations or clients The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 1-o of the legislative law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision (e) to read as follows: 3 (e) Any lobbyist, public corporation, or client who, knowing that a 4 statement or report made pursuant to this article contains false infor- 5 mation, and with intent to defraud the state, offers or presents a 6 statement or report to the commission with the knowledge or belief that 7 it will be filed with, registered or recorded in or otherwise become a 8 part of the records of the commission, shall be guilty of a class E 9 felony, and may be subject to a penalty of the greater of seventy-five 10 thousand dollars, or an amount equal to ten times the value of any 11 compensation or benefit received as a result of the violation. The 12 commission may assess such civil penalties. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10783-01-7