Bill Text: NY A09625 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to campaign finance reform and legislative leadership position term limits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-06 - held for consideration in election law [A09625 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09625-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9625 IN ASSEMBLY January 26, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STEC -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law and the legislative law, in relation to campaign finance reform and legislative leadership position term limits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 14-115 2 to read as follows: 3 § 14-115. Restrictions on campaign contributions for individuals, 4 businesses or corporations that were awarded contracts with the state or 5 any municipal corporation. 1. Individuals, businesses or corporations 6 that enter into a contract with this state or any municipal corporation 7 shall be prohibited from making any contribution to any state official 8 elected to public office or his or her family, any political committee 9 defined under section 14-100 of this article or any independent expendi- 10 ture as defined under section 14-107 of this article within one year of 11 the contract being awarded to the person, business or corporation. 12 2. Individuals, businesses or corporations that submit a request for 13 proposal with the state or any municipality in regard to a contract 14 shall disclose in the proposal any campaign contributions made in the 15 previous three hundred sixty-five days to any state official elected to 16 public office or his or her family, any political committee or any inde- 17 pendent expenditure and if the individual, business or corporation is 18 awarded the contract, any state official elected to public office or his 19 or her family, any political committee or any independent expenditure 20 that received any campaign contributions from said individual, business 21 or corporation shall refund the individual, business or corporation in 22 full. 23 § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 5-b to 24 read as follows: 25 § 5-b. Legislative leadership position term limits. No member of the 26 state legislature shall serve as an officer or in a special capacity EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04283-02-8A. 9625 2 1 position, as defined under section five-a of this article, for more than 2 eight years. 3 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 14-114 of the election law, as amended 4 by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, paragraphs a and b as amended by 5 chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: 6 1. The following limitations apply to all contributions to candidates 7 for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office, 8 or for election to any party positions, and to all contributions to 9 political committees working directly or indirectly with any candidate 10 to aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election, other 11 than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee: 12 a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of 13 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office, no contributor 14 may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, and no 15 candidate or political committee may accept any contribution from any 16 contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than: (i) in the 17 case of any nomination to public office, the product of the total number 18 of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, excluding 19 voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.005, but such amount shall be 20 not less than four thousand dollars nor more than [twelve] ten thousand 21 dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of living adjustment 22 described in paragraph c of this subdivision, and (ii) in the case of 23 any election to a public office, [twenty-five] ten thousand dollars [as24increased or decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in25paragraph c of this subdivision; provided however, that the maximum26amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from27any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the28spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any nomi-29nation to public office an amount equivalent to the product of the30number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, exclud-31ing voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the case of32any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the product of33the number of registered voters in the state excluding voters in inac-34tive status, multiplied by $.025]. 35 b. In any other election for party position or for election to a 36 public office or for nomination for any such office, no contributor may 37 make a contribution to any candidate or political committee and no 38 candidate or political committee may accept any contribution from any 39 contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than: [(i) in the40case of any election for party position, or for nomination to public41office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the candi-42date's party in the district in which he is a candidate, excluding43voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.05, and (ii) in the case of44any election for a public office, the product of the total number of45registered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,46multiplied by $.05,] ten thousand dollars, however in the case of a 47 nomination within the city of New York for the office of mayor, public 48 advocate or comptroller, such amount shall be not less than four thou- 49 sand dollars nor more than [twelve] ten thousand dollars as increased or 50 decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c of 51 this subdivision; in the case of an election within the city of New York 52 for the office of mayor, public advocate or comptroller, [twenty-five] 53 ten thousand dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of living 54 adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in the case of 55 a nomination for state senator, four thousand dollars as increased or 56 decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c ofA. 9625 3 1 this subdivision; in the case of an election for state senator, six 2 thousand two hundred fifty dollars as increased or decreased by the cost 3 of living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in 4 the case of an election or nomination for a member of the assembly, 5 twenty-five hundred dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of 6 living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision; but in 7 no event shall any such maximum exceed [fifty] ten thousand dollars or 8 be less than one thousand dollars; provided however, that the maximum 9 amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from 10 any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the 11 spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any election 12 for party position or nomination for public office an amount equivalent 13 to [the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the14district in which he is a candidate, excluding voters in inactive15status, multiplied by $.25 and in the case of any election to public16office, an amount equivalent to the number of registered voters in the17district, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.25; or] 18 twelve hundred fifty dollars, [whichever is greater,] or in the case of 19 a nomination or election of a state senator, [twenty] ten thousand 20 dollars, [whichever is greater,] or in the case of a nomination or 21 election of a member of the assembly [twelve] ten thousand [five22hundred] dollars, [whichever is greater,] but in no event shall any such 23 maximum exceed [one hundred] ten thousand dollars. 24 c. At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in [nine-25teen hundred ninety-five] two thousand eighteen, the state board shall 26 determine the percentage of the difference between the most recent 27 available monthly consumer price index for all urban consumers published 28 by the United States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer price 29 index published for the same month four years previously. The amount of 30 each contribution limit fixed in this subdivision shall be adjusted by 31 the amount of such percentage difference to the closest one hundred 32 dollars by the state board which, not later than the first day of Febru- 33 ary in each such year, shall issue a regulation publishing the amount of 34 each such contribution limit. Each contribution limit as so adjusted 35 shall be the contribution limit in effect for any election held before 36 the next such adjustment. 37 § 4. Subdivision 8 of section 14-114 of the election law, as amended 38 by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of the 39 laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows: 40 8. a. Except as may otherwise be provided [for] by a candidate [and41his family] for his or her own campaign, no natural person may contrib- 42 ute, loan or guarantee in excess of [one hundred fifty] ten thousand 43 dollars within the state of New York in any calendar year in connection 44 with the nomination or election of [persons to] candidates for state 45 [and] or local public offices [and] or party positions [within the state46of New York in any one calendar year]. 47 b. For the purposes of this subdivision "loan" or "guarantee" shall 48 mean a loan or guarantee which is not repaid or discharged in the calen- 49 dar year in which it is made. 50 § 5. Subdivision 10 of section 14-114 of the election law, as added by 51 chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows: 52 10. a. No contributor may make a contribution to a party or consti- 53 tuted committee and no such committee may accept a contribution from any 54 contributor which, in the aggregate, is greater than [sixty-two] ten 55 thousand [five hundred] dollars per annum.A. 9625 4 1 b. At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in [nine-2teen hundred ninety-five] two thousand eighteen, the state board shall 3 determine the percentage of the difference between the most recent 4 available monthly consumer price index for all urban consumers published 5 by the United States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer price 6 index published for the same month four years previously. The amount of 7 such contribution limit fixed in paragraph a of this subdivision shall 8 be adjusted by the amount of such percentage difference to the closest 9 one hundred dollars by the state board which, not later than the first 10 day of February in each such year, shall issue a regulation publishing 11 the amount of such contribution limit. Such contribution limit as so 12 adjusted shall be the contribution limit in effect for any election held 13 before the next such adjustment. 14 § 6. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law.