Bill Text: NY S08037 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits contribution to any state constituted party or committee or any candidate or candidate committee for any office of the state, municipal or other local government by a person appointed to a position on any state or local board or authority within the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-21 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S08037 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08037-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8037
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 21, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- 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 contribution limits for
          parties appointed to public positions
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The election law is amended by adding a new section 14-115
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 14-115. Contribution limits for parties appointed  to  public  posi-
     4  tions.  1.  For  purposes  of  this section "relative" of any individual
     5  shall mean any person living in the same household as the individual and
     6  any person who is a direct descendant of that individual's or that indi-
     7  vidual's spouse's grandparents or the spouse of such descendant.
     8    2. Notwithstanding any other section of law, no  person,  relative  of
     9  such person, or company in which such person or his or her relative owns
    10  more  than  a  ten percent interest who is, or during the past two years
    11  has been, appointed to a position on any state or local board or author-
    12  ity within the state may make a contribution to  any  state  constituted
    13  party  or  committee  or  any  candidate  or candidate committee for any
    14  office of the state, municipal or other local government.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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