Bill Text: NY S02333 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of a natural person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - PRINT NUMBER 2333A [S02333 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02333-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2333--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections  --  recommitted
          to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        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 of the transferor,  contributor  or  person  from  whom
    17  received,  and  if  the transferor, contributor or person is a political
    18  committee[;], the name of and the  political  unit  represented  by  the
    19  committee,  and  if  the  transferor, contributor or person is a natural
    20  person whose contributions equal or exceed five hundred dollars  in  the
    21  aggregate,  his or her occupation, employer, and employer's address, and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  the date of its receipt[,]; the dollar amount of every expenditure,  the
     2  name  and  address  of the person to whom it was made or the name of and
     3  the political unit represented by the committee to which it was made and
     4  the  date  thereof, and shall state clearly the purpose of such expendi-
     5  ture.  Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it  a  copy
     6  of  the  evidence  of  indebtedness.  Expenditures  in  sums under fifty
     7  dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
     8  statements, and receipts and contributions  aggregating  not  more  than
     9  ninety-nine  dollars,  from any one contributor need not be specifically
    10  accounted for by separate items in said  statements,  provided  however,
    11  that  such  expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
    12  the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
    13    § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 14-108 of the election law,  as  amended
    14  by  chapter  323 of the laws of 1977 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of
    15  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
    16    6.  A statement shall be deemed properly filed when  deposited  in  an
    17  established post-office within the prescribed time, duly stamped, certi-
    18  fied  and  directed  to the officer with whom or to the board with which
    19  the statement is required to be filed,  but  in  the  event  it  is  not
    20  received,  a  duplicate  of  such statement shall be promptly filed upon
    21  notice by such officer or such board of its non-receipt. All  statements
    22  required  to  be  filed in the fifteen days before any election shall be
    23  filed in person or sent by express mail or electronic mail.
    24    § 3.   This act shall take effect  January  12,  2021,  provided  that
    25  section  one  of this act shall apply to any contribution received on or
    26  after January 12, 2021; and provided  further,  however,  that  contrib-
    27  utions  legally  received prior to the effective date of this act may be
    28  retained and expended for lawful purposes  and  shall  not  provide  the
    29  basis  for  a violation of article 14 of the election law, as amended by
    30  this act; and provided, further, that effective  immediately  the  state
    31  board  of  elections  is authorized and directed to promulgate any rules
    32  necessary to implement the provisions of this act and shall  notify  all
    33  candidates and political committees of the applicable provisions of this
    34  act on or before such effective date.