BILL NO A02009
SAME AS No same as
SPONSOR Kavanagh
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Amd S14-102, El L
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.
BILL NUMBER:A2009 REVISED 3/28/11
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to
requiring additional transferor and contributor identification
information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements
PURPOSE: This bill would require a political committee to disclose a
contributor's occupation, employer and full name and address.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill would amend subdivision
1 of section 14-102 of the election law, as amended by chapter 8 of
the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978,
to require a political committee to disclose additional information
regarding contributors who give $100 or more to a political committee.
For individual contributors giving $100 or more, the contributor's
occupation, employer, and employer's address would be required. For
organizational contributors delineated in the amended text, the
additional information would be the full name and address of the
organization.
Section 2 of the bill establishes the effective date.
JUSTIFICATION: Campaign fundraising practices are having a corrosive
effect on the public's confidence in the integrity of government. Too
often, citizens feel that their individual votes are of little
consequence. The cumulative impact is a significant threat to the
fundamental values of democracy. A fundamental component of campaign
finance laws is that campaign committees must disclose the identity of
contributors. The rationale is that public awareness of who has
contributed may reduce the possibility of elected officials favoring
contributors. Requiring that significant contributors disclose their
occupations and employers is necessary to ensure that contributors are
adequately identified and to provide the public with additional
information that may be useful in assessing where a contributor's
interests may lie-and how an elected official might favor that
contributor. The additional identification information required by the
bill is the same as is required under federal law for contributions to
federal political committees.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2012: A05857 (Kavanagh) - Rules
2011: A05857 (Kavanagh) - Election Law
2010: A04012A (Kavanagh) - Election Law
2009: A04012 (Kavanagh) - Election Law
FISCAL IMPACT ON THE STATE: None.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect on the first of December
next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2009
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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
22 to which it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
23 purpose of such expenditure. THE REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE OTHER IDENTIFI-
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03038-01-3
A. 2009 2
1 CATION SHALL APPLY ONLY WITH RESPECT TO A TRANSFER OR CONTRIBUTION FROM
2 ANY ONE TRANSFEROR OR CONTRIBUTOR WHICH EITHER RESULTS IN THE AGGREGATE
3 TRANSFERS OR CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THAT ONE TRANSFEROR OR CONTRIBUTOR
4 EXCEEDING THE SUM OF NINETY-NINE DOLLARS OR IS A TRANSFER OR CONTRIB-
5 UTION WHICH OCCURS AFTER SUCH NINETY-NINE DOLLAR THRESHOLD IS REACHED.
6 THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSFE-
7 ROR OR CONTRIBUTOR SHALL BE HIS OR HER OCCUPATION, EMPLOYER AND EMPLOY-
8 ER'S ADDRESS. THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO ANY
9 PARTNERSHIP, COMMITTEE, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, LABOR ORGANIZATION OR
10 OTHER ORGANIZATION OR GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE ITS FULL NAME AND
11 ADDRESS. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy
12 of the evidence of indebtedness. Expenditures in sums under fifty
13 dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
14 statements, and receipts and contributions aggregating not more than
15 ninety-nine dollars, from any one contributor need not be specifically
16 accounted for by separate items in said statements, provided however,
17 that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
18 the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
19 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next
20 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
