Bill Text: NY S03903 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires campaign finance information of certain candidates or committees to be filed on an electronic reporting system.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-28 - signed chap.416 [S03903 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03903-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3903 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 21, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- 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 requiring campaign finance information of certain candidates or committees to be filed on an electronic reporting system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 4 and 5 of section 14-102 of the election law, 2 subdivision 4 as amended and subdivision 5 as added by chapter 406 of 3 the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows: 4 4. Any committee which is required to file statements with any board 5 of elections pursuant to this article [and which raises or spends or6expects to raise or spend more than one thousand dollars in any calendar7year] shall file all such statements pursuant to the electronic report- 8 ing system prescribed by the state board of elections as set forth in 9 subdivision nine-A of section 3-102 of this chapter. Notwithstanding the 10 provisions of this subdivision, upon the filing of a sworn statement by 11 the treasurer of a political committee which states that such political 12 committee does not have access to the technology necessary to comply 13 with the electronic filing requirements of subdivision nine-A of section 14 3-102 of this chapter and that filing by such means would constitute a 15 substantial hardship for such political committee, the state board of 16 elections may issue an exemption from the electronic filing requirements 17 of this article. 18 [5. Any committee which is required to file statements pursuant to19this article with county boards of elections shall file in paper format20to the county board of elections or in electronic format if the legisla-21tive body of any county provides, by local law, an electronic filing22system and shall file such statements by electronic reporting process to23the state board of elections.] EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01919-01-9S. 3903 2 1 § 2. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 14-104 of the election law, 2 subdivision 2 as amended and subdivision 3 as added by chapter 406 of 3 the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows: 4 2. Statements filed by any political committee authorized by a candi- 5 date pursuant to this article which is required to file such statements 6 with any board of elections [and which raises or spends or expects to7raise or spend more than one thousand dollars in any calendar year] 8 shall file all such statements pursuant to the electronic reporting 9 system prescribed by the state board of elections as set forth in subdi- 10 vision nine-A of section 3-102 of this chapter. Notwithstanding the 11 provisions of this subdivision, upon the filing of a sworn statement by 12 the treasurer of a political committee authorized by a candidate pursu- 13 ant to this article which states that such committee does not have 14 access to the technology necessary to comply with the electronic filing 15 requirements of subdivision nine-A of section 3-102 of this chapter and 16 that filing by such means would constitute a substantial hardship for 17 such committee, the state board of elections may issue an exemption from 18 the electronic filing requirements of this article. 19 [3. Any committee which is required to file statements pursuant to20this article with county boards of elections shall file in paper format21to the county board of elections or in electronic format if the legisla-22tive body of any county provides, by local law, an electronic filing23system and shall file such statements by electronic reporting process to24the state board of elections.] 25 § 3. This act shall take effect December 15, 2019.