Bill Text: NY A08371 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the disposition of campaign funds raised by an elected official who has been convicted of a crime committed while in public office or has been impeached and has been convicted, or has resigned public office following findings by either the attorney general or a committee of the legislature that the official has violated the law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-06 - print number 8371c [A08371 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08371-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8371

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in  relation  to  the  disposition  of
          campaign funds raised by an elected official who has been convicted of
          a  crime committed while in public office or has been impeached or the
          subject of an impeachment inquiry

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 14-132 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. No elected official who has been convicted of a  crime  committed
     4  while  in public office, or who has been impeached and convicted, or who
     5  resigned his or her public office while the subject of a criminal inves-
     6  tigation, while the subject of an impeachment inquiry, or  after  having
     7  been  impeached,  shall expend any campaign funds raised while he or she
     8  held such same public office in support  of  any  candidate  for  public
     9  office  or  any  issue  in any campaign for public office in this state.
    10  Provided, however, that nothing in this subdivision shall prohibit  such
    11  former  officeholder from raising and spending money in support of poli-
    12  tical activities in an account that did not exist at the time he or  she
    13  held  office, unless barred from doing so by any sentence for a crime or
    14  impeachable offense.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13129-01-1