Bill Text: NY S00492 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S00492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00492-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           492
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  requiring  additional
          transferor  and  contributor  identification  information  in campaign
          receipt and expenditure statements
          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 14-102 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.  The  treasurer of every political committee which, or any officer,
     5  member or agent of any  such  committee  who,  in  connection  with  any
     6  election,  receives  or  expends  any  money  or other valuable thing or
     7  incurs any liability to pay money or its equivalent  shall  file  state-
     8  ments  sworn,  or subscribed and bearing a form notice that false state-
     9  ments made therein are punishable as a class A misdemeanor  pursuant  to
    10  section 210.45 of the penal law, at the times prescribed by this article
    11  setting forth all the receipts, contributions to and the expenditures by
    12  and  liabilities  of  the  committee,  and  of its officers, members and
    13  agents in its behalf. Such statements shall include the dollar amount of
    14  any receipt, contribution or transfer, or the fair market value  of  any
    15  receipt,  contribution  or  transfer,  which is other than of money, the
    16  name [and], address and other identification of the transferor, contrib-
    17  utor or person from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or
    18  person is a political committee; the name  of  and  the  political  unit
    19  represented by the committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount
    20  of  every expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was
    21  made or the name of and the political unit represented by the  committee
    22  to  which  it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
    23  purpose of such expenditure.  The requirement to include other identifi-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05598-01-9
        S. 492                              2
     1  cation shall apply only with respect to a transfer or contribution  from
     2  any  one transferor or contributor which either results in the aggregate
     3  transfers or contributions  from  that  one  transferor  or  contributor
     4  exceeding  the  sum  of ninety-nine dollars or is a transfer or contrib-
     5  ution which occurs after such ninety-nine dollar threshold  is  reached.
     6  The other identification required with respect to an individual transfe-
     7  ror  or contributor shall be his or her occupation, employer and employ-
     8  er's address. The other identification  required  with  respect  to  any
     9  partnership,  committee, association, corporation, labor organization or
    10  other organization or group of  persons  shall  be  its  full  name  and
    11  address. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy
    12  of  the  evidence  of  indebtedness.  Expenditures  in  sums under fifty
    13  dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said
    14  statements, and receipts and contributions  aggregating  not  more  than
    15  ninety-nine  dollars,  from any one contributor need not be specifically
    16  accounted for by separate items in said  statements,  provided  however,
    17  that  such  expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be subject to
    18  the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
    20  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.