Bill Text: NY S00338 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-09 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS [S00338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00338-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         338--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens. HOYLMAN, ADDABBO, AVELLA, DILAN, KRUEGER, LATIMER,
          PERKINS, SQUADRON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when  printed
          to  be  committed  to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  the  use  of  campaign
          funds to pay attorney's fees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 14-130 of the election law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. No campaign funds shall be used to pay attorney's fees or any costs
     4  of  defending  against  any  civil  or criminal action, investigation or
     5  prosecution for alleged violations of state or federal  law  alleged  to
     6  have been committed by a candidate, public or party official, members of
     7  their  immediate  family  or domestic partner unless such expenditure is
     8  used exclusively for costs related to civil actions instituted  pursuant
     9  to article sixteen of this chapter.
    10    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law; provided, however, that the state board of  elections
    12  shall  notify  all  registered  campaign  committees  of  the applicable
    13  provisions of this act within thirty days  after  this  act  shall  have
    14  become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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