Bill Text: NY S07129 | 2017-2018 | 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: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-02 - PRINT NUMBER 7129A [S07129 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07129-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7129--A
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 3, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Elections  --  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
    22  the  date of its receipt[,]; the dollar amount of every expenditure, the
    23  name and address of the person to whom it was made or the  name  of  and
    24  the political unit represented by the committee to which it was made and
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01454-03-8
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     1  the  date  thereof, and shall state clearly the purpose of such expendi-
     2  ture.  Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it  a  copy
     3  of  the  evidence  of  indebtedness.  Expenditures  in  sums under fifty
     4  dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
     5  statements,  and  receipts  and  contributions aggregating not more than
     6  ninety-nine dollars, from any one contributor need not  be  specifically
     7  accounted  for  by  separate items in said statements, provided however,
     8  that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be  subject  to
     9  the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
    10    §  2.  Subdivision 6 of section 14-108 of the election law, as amended
    11  by chapter 323 of the laws of 1977 and as redesignated by chapter  9  of
    12  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
    13    6.    A  statement shall be deemed properly filed when deposited in an
    14  established post-office within the prescribed time, duly stamped, certi-
    15  fied and directed to the officer with whom or to the  board  with  which
    16  the  statement  is  required  to  be  filed,  but in the event it is not
    17  received, a duplicate of such statement shall  be  promptly  filed  upon
    18  notice  by such officer or such board of its non-receipt. All statements
    19  required to be filed in the fifteen days before any  election  shall  be
    20  filed in person or sent by express mail or electronic mail.
    21    §  3.    This  act  shall  take effect January 12, 2019, provided that
    22  section one of this act shall apply to any contribution received  on  or
    23  after  January  12,  2019;  and provided further, however, that contrib-
    24  utions legally received prior to the effective date of this act  may  be
    25  retained  and  expended  for  lawful  purposes and shall not provide the
    26  basis for a violation of article 14 of the election law, as  amended  by
    27  this  act;  and  provided, further, that effective immediately the state
    28  board of elections is authorized and directed to  promulgate  any  rules
    29  necessary  to  implement the provisions of this act and shall notify all
    30  candidates and political committees of the applicable provisions of this
    31  act on or before such effective date.