Bill Text: NY A01902 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits a candidate for public office to one authorized committee per election; defines the term "multi-candidate committee" and provides that such a committee may not be authorized by a candidate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A01902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01902-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1902

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to limiting a candidate to
          one authorized committee per election, per office

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 14-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. "multi-candidate committee" means a political committee which has
     4  been in existence for at least six months, has received contributions of
     5  money from more than fifty persons, has made contributions of  money  to
     6  at least five candidates in New York state, makes only monetary contrib-
     7  utions and is not an authorized committee for any candidate.
     8    §  2.  Section  14-112 of the election law, as amended by section 8 of
     9  part A of chapter 286 of the  laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
    10  follows:
    11    §  14-112.  Political committee authorization statement. Any political
    12  committee aiding or taking part in the election  or  nomination  of  any
    13  candidate,  other than [a political action committee] by making contrib-
    14  utions, shall file, in the  office  in  which  the  statements  of  such
    15  committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either a sworn veri-
    16  fied statement by the treasurer of such committee and the candidate that
    17  [the]  such  candidate  has authorized the political committee to aid or
    18  take part in his or her election or a sworn verified  statement  by  the
    19  treasurer  of  such  committee that the candidate has not authorized the
    20  committee to aid or take part in his or her election.  No candidate  may
    21  authorize  more  than one committee for any one election. A multi-candi-
    22  date committee may not be an authorized committee.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00633-01-1