Bill Text: NY A00192 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Places restrictions on the transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for a federal office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county or local office.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A00192 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00192-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           192

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the transfer  of  funds
          from  a  candidate's  political  committee  for  a federal office to a
          candidate's political committee for a state, county or local office

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 14-114 of the election law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph g to read as follows:
     3    g. The transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for  a
     4  federal  office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county
     5  or  local  office  shall  be  restricted  per  the  contribution  limits
     6  prescribed  in  paragraphs a and b of this subdivision. For the purposes
     7  of this section a federal candidate committee shall  be  treated  as  an
     8  individual contributor.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00284-01-3
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