A04487 Summary:

BILL NOA04487
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORStec
 
COSPNSRMcDonough, Tague, Brabenec, Crouch, Walczyk
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §14-115, amd §14-114, El L; add §5-b, Leg L
 
Relates to campaign finance reform and legislative leadership position term limits.
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A04487 Actions:

BILL NOA04487
 
02/04/2019referred to election law
01/08/2020referred to election law
07/14/2020held for consideration in election law
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A04487 Committee Votes:

ELECTION LAW Chair:Lavine DATE:07/14/2020AYE/NAY:12/4 Action: Held for Consideration
LavineAyeNorrisNay
GalefAyeBrabenecNay
DinowitzAyeMikulinNay
LentolAyeTagueNay
LiftonAye
BuchwaldAye
BlakeAye
WalkerAye
CarrollAye
TaylorAye
JacobsonAye
D'UrsoAye

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A04487 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A04487 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4487
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. STEC, McDONOUGH, TAGUE, BRABENEC, CROUCH -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
        AN ACT to amend the election law and the legislative law, in relation to
          campaign finance  reform  and  legislative  leadership  position  term
          limits

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section  14-115
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  14-115.  Restrictions  on  campaign  contributions for individuals,
     4  businesses or corporations that were awarded contracts with the state or
     5  any municipal corporation.  1. Individuals, businesses  or  corporations
     6  that  enter into a contract with this state or any municipal corporation
     7  shall be prohibited from making any contribution to any  state  official
     8  elected  to  public office or his or her family, any political committee
     9  defined under section 14-100 of this article or any independent expendi-
    10  ture as defined under section 14-107 of this article within one year  of
    11  the contract being awarded to the person, business or corporation.
    12    2.  Individuals,  businesses or corporations that submit a request for
    13  proposal with the state or any municipality  in  regard  to  a  contract
    14  shall  disclose  in  the proposal any campaign contributions made in the
    15  previous three hundred sixty-five days to any state official elected  to
    16  public office or his or her family, any political committee or any inde-
    17  pendent  expenditure  and  if the individual, business or corporation is
    18  awarded the contract, any state official elected to public office or his
    19  or her family, any political committee or  any  independent  expenditure
    20  that  received any campaign contributions from said individual, business
    21  or corporation shall refund the individual, business or  corporation  in
    22  full.
    23    §  2.  The  legislative  law is amended by adding a new section 5-b to
    24  read as follows:
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08758-01-9

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     1    § 5-b. Legislative leadership position term limits. No member  of  the
     2  state  legislature  shall  serve  as an officer or in a special capacity
     3  position, as defined under section five-a of this article, for more than
     4  eight years.
     5    §  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 14-114 of the election law, as amended
     6  by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, paragraphs a  and  b  as  amended  by
     7  chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
     8    1.  The following limitations apply to all contributions to candidates
     9  for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office,
    10  or for election to any party positions,  and  to  all  contributions  to
    11  political  committees  working directly or indirectly with any candidate
    12  to aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election,  other
    13  than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee:
    14    a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
    15  the  entire  state, or for nomination to any such office, no contributor
    16  may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, and  no
    17  candidate  or  political  committee may accept any contribution from any
    18  contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than:  (i) in  the
    19  case of any nomination to public office, the product of the total number
    20  of  enrolled  voters  in  the  candidate's party in the state, excluding
    21  voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.005, but such amount shall be
    22  not less than four thousand dollars nor more than [twelve] ten  thousand
    23  dollars  as  increased  or  decreased  by  the cost of living adjustment
    24  described in paragraph c of this subdivision, and (ii) in  the  case  of
    25  any  election to a public office, [twenty-five] ten thousand dollars [as
    26  increased or decreased by the cost of  living  adjustment  described  in
    27  paragraph  c  of  this  subdivision;  provided however, that the maximum
    28  amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the  aggregate,  from
    29  any  candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the
    30  spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case  of  any  nomi-
    31  nation  to  public  office  an  amount  equivalent to the product of the
    32  number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, exclud-
    33  ing voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the  case  of
    34  any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the product of
    35  the  number  of registered voters in the state excluding voters in inac-
    36  tive status, multiplied by $.025].
    37    b. In any other election for party  position  or  for  election  to  a
    38  public  office or for nomination for any such office, no contributor may
    39  make a contribution to any  candidate  or  political  committee  and  no
    40  candidate  or  political  committee may accept any contribution from any
    41  contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than: [(i) in  the
    42  case  of  any  election  for party position, or for nomination to public
    43  office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the candi-
    44  date's party in the district in  which  he  is  a  candidate,  excluding
    45  voters  in  inactive status, multiplied by $.05, and (ii) in the case of
    46  any election for a public office, the product of  the  total  number  of
    47  registered  voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,
    48  multiplied by $.05,] ten thousand dollars, however  in  the  case  of  a
    49  nomination  within  the city of New York for the office of mayor, public
    50  advocate or comptroller, such amount shall be not less than  four  thou-
    51  sand dollars nor more than [twelve] ten thousand dollars as increased or
    52  decreased  by  the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c of
    53  this subdivision; in the case of an election within the city of New York
    54  for the office of mayor, public advocate or  comptroller,  [twenty-five]
    55  ten  thousand  dollars  as  increased or decreased by the cost of living
    56  adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in the case  of

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     1  a  nomination  for  state senator, four thousand dollars as increased or
     2  decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph  c  of
     3  this  subdivision;  in  the  case  of an election for state senator, six
     4  thousand two hundred fifty dollars as increased or decreased by the cost
     5  of  living  adjustment  described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in
     6  the case of an election or nomination for  a  member  of  the  assembly,
     7  twenty-five  hundred  dollars  as  increased or decreased by the cost of
     8  living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision;  but  in
     9  no  event  shall any such maximum exceed [fifty] ten thousand dollars or
    10  be less than one thousand dollars; provided however,  that  the  maximum
    11  amount  which  may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from
    12  any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and  the
    13  spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any election
    14  for  party position or nomination for public office an amount equivalent
    15  to [the number of enrolled  voters  in  the  candidate's  party  in  the
    16  district  in  which  he  is  a  candidate,  excluding voters in inactive
    17  status, multiplied by $.25 and in the case of  any  election  to  public
    18  office,  an  amount equivalent to the number of registered voters in the
    19  district, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by  $.25;  or]
    20  twelve  hundred fifty dollars, [whichever is greater,] or in the case of
    21  a nomination or election of  a  state  senator,  [twenty]  ten  thousand
    22  dollars,  [whichever  is  greater,]  or  in  the case of a nomination or
    23  election of a  member  of  the  assembly  [twelve]  ten  thousand  [five
    24  hundred] dollars, [whichever is greater,] but in no event shall any such
    25  maximum exceed [one hundred] ten thousand dollars.
    26    c. At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in [nine-
    27  teen  hundred  ninety-five]  two  thousand twenty, the state board shall
    28  determine the percentage of  the  difference  between  the  most  recent
    29  available monthly consumer price index for all urban consumers published
    30  by  the United States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer price
    31  index published for the same month four years previously. The amount  of
    32  each  contribution  limit fixed in this subdivision shall be adjusted by
    33  the amount of such percentage difference  to  the  closest  one  hundred
    34  dollars by the state board which, not later than the first day of Febru-
    35  ary in each such year, shall issue a regulation publishing the amount of
    36  each  such  contribution  limit.  Each contribution limit as so adjusted
    37  shall be the contribution limit in effect for any election  held  before
    38  the next such adjustment.
    39    §  4.  Subdivision 8 of section 14-114 of the election law, as amended
    40  by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by chapter 9 of the
    41  laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
    42    8. a. Except as may otherwise be provided [for] by  a  candidate  [and
    43  his  family] for his or her own campaign, no natural person may contrib-
    44  ute, loan or guarantee in excess of [one  hundred  fifty]  ten  thousand
    45  dollars  within the state of New York in any calendar year in connection
    46  with the nomination or election of [persons  to]  candidates  for  state
    47  [and] or local public offices [and] or party positions [within the state
    48  of New York in any one calendar year].
    49    b.  For  the  purposes of this subdivision "loan" or "guarantee" shall
    50  mean a loan or guarantee which is not repaid or discharged in the calen-
    51  dar year in which it is made.
    52    § 5. Subdivision 10 of section 14-114 of the election law, as added by
    53  chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
    54    10. a. No contributor may make a contribution to a  party  or  consti-
    55  tuted committee and no such committee may accept a contribution from any

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     1  contributor  which,  in  the  aggregate, is greater than [sixty-two] ten
     2  thousand [five hundred] dollars per annum.
     3    b. At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in [nine-
     4  teen  hundred  ninety-five]  two  thousand twenty, the state board shall
     5  determine the percentage of  the  difference  between  the  most  recent
     6  available monthly consumer price index for all urban consumers published
     7  by  the United States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer price
     8  index published for the same month four years previously. The amount  of
     9  such  contribution  limit fixed in paragraph a of this subdivision shall
    10  be adjusted by the amount of such percentage difference to  the  closest
    11  one  hundred  dollars by the state board which, not later than the first
    12  day of February in each such year, shall issue a  regulation  publishing
    13  the  amount  of  such  contribution limit. Such contribution limit as so
    14  adjusted shall be the contribution limit in effect for any election held
    15  before the next such adjustment.
    16    § 6. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
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