Bill Text: NY S02857 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2857
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 29, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO, KRUEGER, SAMPSON, SQUADRON -- 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 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    S  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  by
    6  making 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  SIXTEEN,  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.
   21    3. CAMPAIGN FUNDS  REMAINING  IN  ANY  DISAVOWED  COMMITTEE  SHALL  BE
   22  DISPOSED OF PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    2  have become a law; provided, however, that the state board of  elections
    3  shall  notify  all candidates and political committees of the applicable
    4  provisions of this act within thirty days  after  this  act  shall  have
    5  become a law.