Bill Title: Enacts the "integrity in elections act of 2016"; requires the majority vote of the entire party committee for the jurisdiction in which a candidate for public office is running, in order to nominate such candidate as the party candidate; prohibits the transfer of funds between a candidate and committees not formed for the purposes of such candidate; limits independent expenditures for political purposes; limits contributions to $2,600 to any single candidate during an election cycle; enacts campaign finance reform to provide for matching funds for the campaigns of state elected officials; authorizes the imposition of an additional surcharge on recoveries for fraudulent practices regarding stocks, bonds and other securities; establishes the New York state campaign finance fund; provides for a New York state campaign finance fund check-off.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07506 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Senator Jeffrey Klein [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	SD-034	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Tony Avella [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator David Carlucci [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-038	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Diane Savino [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator David Valesky [D]	Cosponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-053	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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