Bill Text: NY A02982 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "campaign finance reporting accountability act"; establishes the crime of failure to file campaign statements, a class A misdemeanor.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 11-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-10-23 - enacting clause stricken [A02982 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A02982-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2982
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 20, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GALEF, MONTESANO, DUPREY, CROUCH, LUPINACCI --
Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH, McLAUGHLIN, RIVERA, THIELE
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
failure to file campaign statements, a class A misdemeanor
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "campaign
2 finance reporting accountability act".
3 S 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.90 to read
4 as follows:
5 S 190.90 FAILURE TO FILE CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS.
6 ANY PERSON, REQUIRED TO FILE A STATEMENT PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN
7 OF THE ELECTION LAW, WHO KNOWINGLY, ON THREE OR MORE OCCASIONS, FAILS TO
8 FILE SUCH A STATEMENT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE DATE SUCH STATEMENT IS
9 DUE, SHALL BE GUILTY OF FAILURE TO FILE CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS.
10 FAILURE TO FILE CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
11 S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
12 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00222-01-5
