STATE OF NEW YORK
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2362
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to requiring additional
transferor and contributor identification information in campaign
receipt and expenditure statements
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
21 made or the name of and the political unit represented by the committee
22 to which it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
23 purpose of such expenditure. The requirement to include other identifi-
24 cation shall apply only with respect to a transfer or contribution from
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 any one transferor or contributor which either results in the aggregate
2 transfers or contributions from that one transferor or contributor
3 exceeding the sum of ninety-nine dollars or is a transfer or contrib-
4 ution which occurs after such ninety-nine dollar threshold is reached.
5 The other identification required with respect to an individual transfe-
6 ror or contributor shall be his or her full name, full residential
7 address, including any suite, floor, or apartment, occupation, employer
8 and employer's full business address, including any suite, floor, or
9 apartment number. The other identification required with respect to any
10 partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or
11 other organization or group of persons shall be its full name and full
12 business address, including any suite, floor, or apartment number. Any
13 statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy of the
14 evidence of indebtedness, and shall include the full business name and
15 address, including any suite, floor, or apartment number of any commer-
16 cial or business entity providing the loan, or the full name of any
17 person providing the loan, including his or her full residential
18 address, including any suite, floor or apartment number, occupation,
19 employer and employer's full business address, including any suite,
20 floor, and apartment number. Expenditures in sums under fifty dollars
21 need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said state-
22 ments, and receipts and contributions aggregating not more than ninety-
23 nine dollars, from any one contributor need not be specifically
24 accounted for by separate items in said statements, provided however,
25 that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
26 the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
28 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
