Bill Text: NY A04734 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay any settlement fees, fines or penalties for sexual harassment civil or criminal actions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A04734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04734-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4734

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to the use of campaign
          funds to pay any  settlement  fees,  fines  or  penalties  for  sexual
          harassment civil or criminal actions

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

     1    Section 1.  Paragraphs (x) and (xi) of subdivision 3 of section 14-130
     2  of the election law, paragraph (x) as  amended  and  paragraph  (xi)  as
     3  added  by  chapter  136 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new para-
     4  graph (xii) is added to read as follows:
     5    (x) travel expenses including automobile purchases or  leases,  unless
     6  used  for  campaign  purposes or in connection with the execution of the
     7  duties of public office or party position  and  usage  of  such  vehicle
     8  which  is  incidental  to such purposes or the execution of such duties;
     9  [and]
    10    (xi) childcare expenses, other than expenses incurred in the  campaign
    11  or in the execution of the duties of public office or party position[.];
    12  and
    13    (xii)  payment  of  any  settlement  fees, fines or penalties assessed
    14  against the candidate in connection with a  criminal  or  civil  action,
    15  investigation,  or  prosecution  involving allegations of sexual harass-
    16  ment.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07917-01-3