NY S04857

Requires the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government to post annual financial disclosure statements on its website for candidates for statewide elected office and candidates for state legislature, in addition to current elected officials

Expands the definition of "relative" in financial disclosure requirements to include domestic partners

Simplifies client disclosure requirements by consolidating multiple date-specific reporting provisions (previously separated by July 2012 and December 2015 effective dates) into a single unified standard

Lowers the contract threshold triggering client disclosure from $50,000 to $10,000 for state contracts and from $25,000 to $10,000 for state grants

Updates gendered pronouns throughout the financial disclosure form language to gender-neutral terms (changing "his or her" to "their" and "he or she" to "they")