Bill Text: NY S02857 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits candidates from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-01 - PRINT NUMBER 2857A [S02857 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02857-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2857--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, KRUEGER, SQUADRON -- 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 prohibiting candidates from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by chapter 2 930 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 14-112. [Political] Authorized committee; political committee 4 authorization statement. 1. Any political committee aiding or taking 5 part in the election or nomination of any candidate[, other than by6making contributions,] shall file, in the office in which the statements 7 of such committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either a 8 sworn verified statement by the treasurer of such committee and the 9 candidate that [the] such candidate has authorized the political commit- 10 tee to aid or take part in his or her election or a sworn verified 11 statement by the treasurer of such committee that the candidate has not 12 authorized the committee to aid or take part in his or her election. 13 2. No candidate may authorize more than one political committee for 14 any one election. Any candidate who, on December first, two thousand 15 seventeen, has authorized more than one political committee for any one 16 election shall, not later than thirty days after said date, disavow all 17 but one of such committees, in writing, to the state board of elections. 18 This subdivision shall not apply to the authorization of an exploratory 19 committee by an elected public official. A multi-candidate committee may 20 not be an authorized committee. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03446-02-6
