Bill Text: NY S00114 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 114

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the fair campaign code to require campaign literature and other mass media identify the person, political party or committee authorizing such material.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00114-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           114

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  KRUEGER,  GOUNARDES, LIU, MAYER -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Elections

        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to media identification
          requirements in the fair campaign code

          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 3-106 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.  In  addition to the powers and duties elsewhere enumerated in this
     5  article, the state board of  elections,  after  public  hearings,  shall
     6  adopt  a "fair campaign code" setting forth ethical standards of conduct
     7  for persons,  political  parties  and  committees  engaged  in  election
     8  campaigns  including,  but not limited to, specific prohibitions against
     9  practices of political espionage and other political practices involving
    10  subversion of the political parties and process, and requiring that  all
    11  campaign  literature, media advertisements or broadcasts, public speech-
    12  es, press releases and other writing shall identify  the  person,  poli-
    13  tical party or committee authorizing such material.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01091-01-3