Bill Text: NY A01838 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Places restrictions on the transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for a federal office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county or local office.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A01838 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01838-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1838 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for a federal office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county or local office 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 14-114 of the election law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph d to read as follows: 3 d. The transfer of funds from a candidate's political committee for a 4 federal office to a candidate's political committee for a state, county 5 or local office shall be restricted per the contribution limits 6 prescribed in paragraphs a and b of this subdivision. For the purposes 7 of this section a federal candidate committee shall be treated as an 8 individual contributor. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00212-01-9
