Bill Text: NY A05898 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to election law [A05898 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05898-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5898
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 17, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to requiring additional
          transferor and  contributor  identification  information  in  campaign
          receipt and expenditure statements
          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 14-102 of  the  election  law,  as
     2  amended  by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by chapter
     3  9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The treasurer of every political committee which, or  any  officer,
     5  member  or  agent  of  any  such  committee  who, in connection with any
     6  election, receives or expends any  money  or  other  valuable  thing  or
     7  incurs  any  liability  to pay money or its equivalent shall file state-
     8  ments sworn, or subscribed and bearing a form notice that  false  state-
     9  ments  made  therein are punishable as a class A misdemeanor pursuant to
    10  section 210.45 of the penal law, at the times prescribed by this article
    11  setting forth all the receipts, contributions to and the expenditures by
    12  and liabilities of the committee,  and  of  its  officers,  members  and
    13  agents in its behalf. Such statements shall include the dollar amount of
    14  any  receipt,  contribution or transfer, or the fair market value of any
    15  receipt, contribution or transfer, which is other  than  of  money,  the
    16  name [and], address and other identification of the transferor, contrib-
    17  utor or person from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or
    18  person  is  a  political  committee;  the name of and the political unit
    19  represented by the committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount
    20  of every expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it  was
    21  made  or the name of and the political unit represented by the committee
    22  to which it was made and the date thereof, and shall state  clearly  the
    23  purpose of such expenditure.  The requirement to include other identifi-
    24  cation  shall apply only with respect to a transfer or contribution from
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02090-01-7
        A. 5898                             2
     1  any one transferor or contributor which either results in the  aggregate
     2  transfers  or  contributions  from  that  one  transferor or contributor
     3  exceeding the sum of ninety-nine dollars or is a  transfer  or  contrib-
     4  ution  which  occurs after such ninety-nine dollar threshold is reached.
     5  The other identification required with respect to an individual transfe-
     6  ror or contributor shall be his or her occupation, employer and  employ-
     7  er's  address.  The  other  identification  required with respect to any
     8  partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization  or
     9  other  organization  or  group  of  persons  shall  be its full name and
    10  address. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy
    11  of the evidence  of  indebtedness.  Expenditures  in  sums  under  fifty
    12  dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
    13  statements,  and  receipts  and  contributions aggregating not more than
    14  ninety-nine dollars, from any one contributor need not  be  specifically
    15  accounted  for  by  separate items in said statements, provided however,
    16  that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be  subject  to
    17  the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
    19  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.