STATE OF NEW YORK
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9558
IN SENATE
September 16, 2022
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to contribution and
receipt limitations
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 14-114 of the election law, as
2 amended by section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. The following limitations apply to all contributions to candidates
5 for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office,
6 or for election to any party positions, and to all contributions to
7 political committees working directly or indirectly with any candidate
8 to aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election, other
9 than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee:
10 a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
11 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office, no contributor
12 may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, partic-
13 ipating in the state's public campaign financing system pursuant to
14 title two of this article and no such candidate or political committee
15 may accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggre-
16 gate amount greater than eighteen thousand dollars divided equally among
17 the primary and general election in an election cycle; provided however,
18 that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the
19 aggregate, from any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and
20 sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case
21 of any nomination to public office an amount equivalent to the product
22 of the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state,
23 excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the
24 case of any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the
25 product of the number of registered voters in the state excluding voters
26 in inactive status, multiplied by $.025.
27 b. In any [other election for party position or for election to a
28 public office or for nomination for any such office, no contributor may
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 make a contribution to any candidate or political committee] nomination
2 or election of a candidate participating in the state's public campaign
3 financing system pursuant to title two of this article [and], no such
4 candidate or political committee may accept any contribution from any
5 contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than [election for
6 party position, or for nomination to public office, the product of the
7 total number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the district
8 in which he is a candidate, excluding voters in inactive status, multi-
9 plied by $.05, and (ii) in the case of any election for a public office,
10 the product of the total number of registered voters in the district,
11 excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.05, however in the
12 case of a nomination within the city of New York for the office of
13 mayor, public advocate or comptroller, such amount shall be not less
14 than four thousand dollars nor more than twelve thousand dollars as
15 increased or decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in
16 paragraph c of this subdivision; in the case of an election within the
17 city of New York for the office of mayor, public advocate or comp-
18 troller, twenty-five thousand dollars as increased or decreased by the
19 cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c of this
20 subdivision;]: (i) in the case of a nomination or election for state
21 senator, ten thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and
22 general election in an election cycle; and (ii) in the case of [an] a
23 nomination or election [or nomination] for [a] member of the assembly,
24 six thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general
25 election in an election cycle; provided however, that the maximum amount
26 which may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from [any]
27 such candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the
28 spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any
29 [election for party position or] nomination for [public office] state
30 senator or member of the assembly an amount equivalent to the number of
31 enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the district in which he or
32 she is a candidate, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by
33 $.25 and in the case of any election [to public office] for state
34 senator or member of the assembly, an amount equivalent to the number of
35 registered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,
36 multiplied by $.25; [or twelve hundred fifty dollars, whichever is
37 greater, or] provided, however, in the case of a nomination or election
38 of a state senator, twenty thousand dollars, whichever is greater, or in
39 the case of a nomination or election of a member of the assembly twelve
40 thousand five hundred dollars, whichever is greater, but in no event
41 shall any such maximum exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
42 c. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
43 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office, no contributor
44 may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee in
45 connection with a candidate who is not a participating candidate as
46 defined in subdivision fourteen of section 14-200-a of this article, and
47 no such candidate or political committee may accept any contribution
48 from any contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than
49 eighteen thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general
50 election in an election cycle; provided however, that the maximum amount
51 which may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from any
52 candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the
53 spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any nomi-
54 nation to public office an amount equivalent to the product of the
55 number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, exclud-
56 ing voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the case of
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1 any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the product of
2 the number of registered voters in the state, excluding voters in inac-
3 tive status, multiplied by $.025.
4 d. In any nomination or election of a candidate who is not a partic-
5 ipating candidate for state senator, ten thousand dollars, divided
6 equally among the primary and general election in an election cycle; in
7 the case of [an election or] a nomination or election for [a] member of
8 the assembly, six thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary
9 and general election in an election cycle.
10 e. In any other election for party position or for election to a
11 public office or for nomination for any such office, no contributor may
12 make a contribution to any candidate or political committee and no
13 candidate or political committee may accept any contribution from any
14 contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than: (i) in the
15 case of any election for party position, or for nomination to public
16 office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the candi-
17 date's party in the district in which he or she is a candidate, exclud-
18 ing voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.05, and (ii) in the case
19 of any election for a public office, the product of the total number of
20 registered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,
21 multiplied by $.05, however in the case of a nomination within the city
22 of New York for the office of mayor, public advocate or comptroller,
23 such amount shall be not less than four thousand dollars nor more than
24 twelve thousand dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of living
25 adjustment described in paragraph f of this subdivision; in the case of
26 an election within the city of New York for the office of mayor, public
27 advocate or comptroller, twenty-five thousand dollars as increased or
28 decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph f of
29 this subdivision but in no event shall any such maximum exceed fifty
30 thousand dollars or be less than one thousand dollars; provided however,
31 that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the
32 aggregate, from any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and
33 sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case
34 of any election for party position or nomination for public office an
35 amount equivalent to the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's
36 party in the district in which he or she is a candidate, excluding
37 voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.25 and in the case of any
38 election to public office, an amount equivalent to the number of regis-
39 tered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,
40 multiplied by $.25; or twelve hundred fifty dollars, whichever is great-
41 er, but in no event shall any such maximum exceed one hundred thousand
42 dollars.
43 f. (1) At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in
44 nineteen hundred ninety-five, the state board shall determine the
45 percentage of the difference between the most recent available monthly
46 consumer price index for all urban consumers published by the United
47 States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer price index
48 published for the same month four years previously. The amount of each
49 contribution limit fixed in this subdivision shall be adjusted by the
50 amount of such percentage difference to the closest one hundred dollars
51 by the state board which, not later than the first day of February in
52 each such year, shall issue a regulation publishing the amount of each
53 such contribution limit. Each contribution limit as so adjusted shall be
54 the contribution limit in effect for any election held before the next
55 such adjustment.
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1 (2) Provided, however, that such adjustments shall not occur for
2 candidates seeking statewide office, or the position of state senator or
3 member of the assembly, whether such candidate does or does not partic-
4 ipate in the public finance program established pursuant to title two of
5 this article.
6 [f.] g. Notwithstanding any other contribution limit in this section,
7 participating candidates as defined in subdivision fourteen of section
8 14-200-a of this article may contribute, out of their own money, three
9 times the applicable contribution limit to their own authorized commit-
10 tee.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
12 manner as section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, takes
13 effect.