Broadens requirements with respect to campaign disclosure statements to require expenditures of $5,000 or more incurred in the final 10 days of an election to be reported within 24 hours to the Board of Elections and requires such statements to be filed in person or sent by express mail; also requires that all filings made during the final 15 day period prior to an election should be filed in person or sent by express mail.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4294
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2017
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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 the manner of filing of
campaign financial disclosure statements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 14-108 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Each statement shall cover the period up to and including the
5 fourth day next preceding the day specified for the filing thereof;
6 provided, however, that any contribution or loan in excess of one thou-
7 sand dollars or any liability incurred in excess of five thousand
8 dollars, if received or incurred after the close of the period to be
9 covered in the last statement filed before any primary, general or
10 special election but before such election, shall be reported, in the
11 same manner as other contributions or liabilities, within twenty-four
12 hours after receipt or incurrence.
13 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 14-108 of the election law, as amended
14 by chapter 323 of the laws of 1977 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of
15 the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
16 6. A statement shall be deemed properly filed when deposited in an
17 established post-office within the prescribed time, duly stamped, certi-
18 fied and directed to the officer with whom or to the board with which
19 the statement is required to be filed, but in the event it is not
20 received, a duplicate of such statement shall be promptly filed upon
21 notice by such officer or such board of its non-receipt. All statements
22 required to be filed in the fifteen days before any election shall be
23 filed in person or sent by express mail or electronic mail.
24 § 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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