Bill Text: NY A06060 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the fair campaign code to require campaign literature and other mass media identify the person, political party or committee authorizing such material.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A06060 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6060
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 26, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  ZEBROWSKI,  JAFFEE, STECK, RIVERA,
          ABINANTI, DenDEKKER, GALEF, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of
          A. COLTON, CROUCH, McDONOUGH, SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Election Law
        AN  ACT  to  amend the election law, in relation to media identification
          requirements in the fair campaign code
          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 3-106 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.  In  addition to the powers and duties elsewhere enumerated in this
     5  article, the state board of  elections,  after  public  hearings,  shall
     6  adopt  a "fair campaign code" setting forth ethical standards of conduct
     7  for persons,  political  parties  and  committees  engaged  in  election
     8  campaigns  including,  but not limited to, specific prohibitions against
     9  practices of political espionage and other political practices involving
    10  subversion of the political parties and process, and requiring that  all
    11  campaign  literature, media advertisements or broadcasts, public speech-
    12  es, press releases and other writing shall identify  the  person,  poli-
    13  tical party or committee authorizing such material.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law; provided however that effective immediately,
    16  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    17  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    18  authorized to be made on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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