BILL NO A04116
SAME AS SAME AS S04501
SPONSOR Ortiz (MS)
COSPNSR Brennan, Englebright, Gottfried, Clark, O'Donnell, Peoples-Stokes,
Galef, Paulin, Rosenthal, Kavanagh, Lifton, Kellner, Millman
MLTSPNSR Cahill, Colton, Dinowitz, Glick, Lupardo, Thiele
Add Art 14-A SS14-150 - 14-178, S3-109, amd SS14-102, 14-108, 14-114 & 3-104,
rpld & add S3-100, El L; add S626-a, Tax L; amd S1-e, Leg L
Enacts a voluntary program for public financing of statewide elections, and
elections for state senator, assembly person and district attorney; provides
that each candidate who collects a specified amount of five dollar
contributions and agrees to limit campaign spending receives a fixed amount of
public financing; requires qualified candidate must agree to fixed number of
debates; bans "soft money" political advertising; increases campaign
contribution reporting; recreates state board of elections.
