Bill Text: NY A00610 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: 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.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A00610 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00610-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 610 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ 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. LBD03392-01-9