Bill Text: NY A07370 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7370

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that all candidates obtain the written, express permission of any person identified in campaign literature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A07370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07370-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7370

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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  any  person  other
    13  than  the candidate and such candidate shall obtain the written, express
    14  permission of any person identified in such literature.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11280-01-3