STATE OF NEW YORK
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5880
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 5, 2015
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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; to amend the election law, in
relation to the manner of filing of campaign financial disclosure
statements; and to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting
candidates for election to a public office from accepting contrib-
utions from charitable organizations
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
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 made or the name of and the political unit represented by the committee
2 to which it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
3 purpose of such expenditure. The requirement to include other identifi-
4 cation shall apply only with respect to a transfer or contribution from
5 any one transferor or contributor which either results in the aggregate
6 transfers or contributions from that one transferor or contributor
7 exceeding the sum of ninety-nine dollars or is a transfer or contrib-
8 ution which occurs after such ninety-nine dollar threshold is reached.
9 The other identification required with respect to an individual transfe-
10 ror or contributor shall be his or her occupation, employer and employ-
11 er's address. The other identification required with respect to any
12 partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or
13 other organization or group of persons shall be its full name and
14 address. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy
15 of the evidence of indebtedness. Expenditures in sums under fifty
16 dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
17 statements, and receipts and contributions aggregating not more than
18 ninety-nine dollars, from any one contributor need not be specifically
19 accounted for by separate items in said statements, provided however,
20 that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
21 the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
22 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 14-108 of the election law, as amended
23 by chapter 109 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
24 2. Each statement shall cover the period up to and including the
25 fourth day next preceding the day specified for the filing thereof;
26 provided, however, that any contribution or loan in excess of one thou-
27 sand dollars or any liability incurred in excess of five thousand
28 dollars, if received or incurred after the close of the period to be
29 covered in the last statement filed before any primary, general or
30 special election but before such election, shall be reported, in the
31 same manner as other contributions or liabilities, within twenty-four
32 hours after receipt or incurrence.
33 § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 14-108 of the election law, as amended
34 by chapter 323 of the laws of 1977 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of
35 the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
36 6. A statement shall be deemed properly filed when deposited in an
37 established post-office within the prescribed time, duly stamped, certi-
38 fied and directed to the officer with whom or to the board with which
39 the statement is required to be filed, but in the event it is not
40 received, a duplicate of such statement shall be promptly filed upon
41 notice by such officer or such board of its non-receipt. All statements
42 required to be filed in the fifteen days before any election shall be
43 filed in person or sent by express or electronic mail.
44 § 4. Section 3-102 of the election law is amended by adding a new
45 subdivision 9-B to read as follows:
46 9-B. cause all contribution forms to contain the following language:
47 "contributions from charities or 501 (c) corporations are expressly
48 forbidden."
49 § 5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
50 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
