A 3388: Prohibits statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiving compensation for any book or other published work written during the course of their term of service.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3388 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 27, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Governmental Operations AN ACT to amend the public officers law, in relation to prohibiting statewide elected officers and certain appointed officers from receiv- ing compensation for any book or other published work written during the course of their term of service The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 74 of the public officers law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph j to read as follows: 3 j. No officer elected to a statewide office within the state or who 4 holds an office filled by direct appointment by the governor, that 5 receives a state salary, and requires senate confirmation may sell or 6 receive compensation for any book or other published work written during 7 their term of service in such position. This paragraph shall not prohib- 8 it such a person from selling or receiving compensation for any book or 9 other such published work written either before or after such term of 10 service. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04472-01-5