Limits a candidate for public office to one authorized committee per election; defines the term "multi-candidate committee" and provides that such a committee may not be authorized by a candidate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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590
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to limiting a candidate to
one authorized committee per election, per office
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. "multi-candidate committee" means a political committee which has
4 been in existence for at least six months, has received contributions of
5 money from more than fifty persons, has made contributions of money to
6 at least five candidates in New York state, makes only monetary contrib-
7 utions and is not an authorized committee for any candidate.
8 § 2. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by section 8 of
9 part A of chapter 286 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
10 follows:
11 § 14-112. Political committee authorization statement. Any political
12 committee aiding or taking part in the election or nomination of any
13 candidate, other than [a political action committee] by making contrib-
14 utions, shall file, in the office in which the statements of such
15 committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either a sworn veri-
16 fied statement by the treasurer of such committee and the candidate that
17 [the] such candidate has authorized the political committee to aid or
18 take part in his or her election or a sworn verified statement by the
19 treasurer of such committee that the candidate has not authorized the
20 committee to aid or take part in his or her election. No candidate may
21 authorize more than one committee for any one election. A multi-candi-
22 date committee may not be an authorized committee.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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