Bill Text: NY S03725 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-02 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S03725 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03725-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 3725                                                  A. 5857
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 2, 2011
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       IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Election Law
       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 AND OTHER IDENTIFICATION of the transferor, contrib-
   17  utor or person from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or
   18  person is a political committee; the name  of  and  the  political  unit
   19  represented by the committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount
   20  of  every expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was
   21  made or the name of and the political unit represented by the  committee
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00054-01-1
       S. 3725                             2                            A. 5857
    1  to  which  it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
    2  purpose of such expenditure.  THE REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE OTHER IDENTIFI-
    3  CATION SHALL APPLY ONLY WITH RESPECT TO A TRANSFER OR CONTRIBUTION  FROM
    4  ANY  ONE TRANSFEROR OR CONTRIBUTOR WHICH EITHER RESULTS IN THE AGGREGATE
    5  TRANSFERS OR CONTRIBUTIONS  FROM  THAT  ONE  TRANSFEROR  OR  CONTRIBUTOR
    6  EXCEEDING  THE  SUM  OF NINETY-NINE DOLLARS OR IS A TRANSFER OR CONTRIB-
    7  UTION WHICH OCCURS AFTER SUCH NINETY-NINE DOLLAR THRESHOLD  IS  REACHED.
    8  THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSFE-
    9  ROR  OR CONTRIBUTOR SHALL BE HIS OR HER OCCUPATION, EMPLOYER AND EMPLOY-
   10  ER'S ADDRESS. THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION  REQUIRED  WITH  RESPECT  TO  ANY
   11  PARTNERSHIP,  COMMITTEE, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, LABOR ORGANIZATION OR
   12  OTHER ORGANIZATION OR GROUP OF  PERSONS  SHALL  BE  ITS  FULL  NAME  AND
   13  ADDRESS. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy
   14  of  the  evidence  of  indebtedness.  Expenditures  in  sums under fifty
   15  dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
   16  statements, and receipts and contributions  aggregating  not  more  than
   17  ninety-nine  dollars,  from any one contributor need not be specifically
   18  accounted for by separate items in said  statements,  provided  however,
   19  that  such  expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
   20  the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
   21    S 2.   This act shall take  effect  on  the  first  of  December  next
   22  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.