Bill Text: NY A05832 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5832 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees relating to the defense of a federal criminal indictment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to election law [A05832 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05832-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5832
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        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 attorney's fees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 14-130 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. No campaign funds shall be used to pay attorney's fees or any costs
     4  for the actual defense of a candidate, public or party official, members
     5  of their immediate family or domestic  partner  under  federal  criminal
     6  indictment.    Such funds may only be used exclusively for costs related
     7  to civil actions instituted pursuant to article sixteen of this chapter.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
     9  have  become a law; provided, however, that the state board of elections
    10  shall notify  all  registered  campaign  committees  of  the  applicable
    11  provisions  of  this  act  within  thirty days after this act shall have
    12  become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08788-01-7