STATE OF NEW YORK
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4181
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the use of campaign
funds to pay attorney's fees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14-130 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. No campaign funds shall be used to pay attorney's fees or any costs
4 of defending against any civil or criminal action, investigation or
5 prosecution for alleged violations of state or federal law alleged to
6 have been committed by a candidate, public or party official, members of
7 their immediate family or domestic partner unless such expenditure is
8 used exclusively for costs related to civil actions instituted pursuant
9 to article sixteen of this chapter.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law; provided, however, that the state board of elections
12 shall notify all registered campaign committees of the applicable
13 provisions of this act within thirty days after this act shall have
14 become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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