Bill Text: NY A10242 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits campaign contributions to candidates for state senate and assembly by certain members of the legislative ethics commission; provides an exemption that permits present members of the legislature to make campaign contributions; imposes penalties.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - referred to election law [A10242 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10242-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10242

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law and the election law, in relation to
          prohibiting campaign contributions to candidates for state senate  and
          assembly by certain members of the legislative ethics commission

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

     1    Section 1. Section 80 of the legislative law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a.  No  member  of  the  commission shall make a contribution to any
     4  candidate for state senate or  assembly;  provided,  however,  that  the
     5  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to members of the commis-
     6  sion who are present members of the legislature.
     7    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 14-114 of the election law is amended by
     8  adding a new paragraph d to read as follows:
     9    d.  In  any  election  for  state senate or assembly, no member of the
    10  legislative ethics commission as defined in section eighty of the legis-
    11  lative law, shall make a contribution to a candidate  and  no  candidate
    12  shall  accept  a  contribution  from a member of such legislative ethics
    13  commission; provided, however, that the  provisions  of  this  paragraph
    14  shall  not apply to members of the commission who are present members of
    15  the legislature.
    16    § 3. Section 14-126 of the election law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    17  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    18    8.  (a)  Any  member  of the legislative ethics commission, who, under
    19  circumstances evincing an intent to violate such law, makes  a  contrib-
    20  ution  in  contravention  of  paragraph  d of subdivision one of section
    21  14-114 of this article shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed
    22  the greater of ten thousand dollars or an amount equal  to  two  hundred
    23  percent  of  the contribution, to be recoverable in a special proceeding
    24  or civil action to be brought by the  state  board  of  elections  chief
    25  enforcement counsel.
    26    (b)  Any person who, acting as or on behalf of an officeholder, candi-
    27  date, or political committee, accepts a contribution in contravention of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  paragraph d of subdivision one of section 14-114 of this  article  shall
     2  be required to refund such contribution.
     3    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.