STATE OF NEW YORK
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571
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 5, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
nance
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to restrictions on
political contributions from lobbyists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Sections 1-u and 1-v of the legislative law, section 1-v as
2 relettered by chapter 1 of the laws of 2005, are renumbered sections 1-w
3 and 1-x and two new sections 1-u and 1-v are added to read as follows:
4 § 1-u. Restrictions on political contributions by lobbyists. A lobby-
5 ist shall not solicit, make or transmit a contribution or a request for
6 a contribution from or to any person, including a political committee
7 for the benefit of a public official or party committee, for election to
8 any state or municipal corporation office; except that a lobbyist may
9 make a political contribution up to two hundred fifty dollars per candi-
10 date per election; provided however, that for state level public offi-
11 cials, such contribution may only be made between July first and Decem-
12 ber thirty-first.
13 § 1-v. Restrictions on acceptance of political contributions by public
14 officials. A public official shall not knowingly accept, solicit, or
15 transmit a contribution or a request for a contribution for himself or
16 herself or any public official, political committee, or candidate from
17 or on behalf of any lobbyist regulated by this article, except that a
18 public official may accept political contributions from a lobbyist, up
19 to two hundred fifty dollars per election; provided however, that for
20 state level public officials, such contribution may only be made between
21 July first and December thirty-first.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02003-01-3
