Bill Text: NY S00571 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Restricts form, amount and time of political contributions by lobbyists and the acceptance of such contributions by public officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ETHICS AND INTERNAL GOVERNANCE [S00571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00571-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           571

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Ethics and Internal Gover-
          nance

        AN ACT to amend the legislative law,  in  relation  to  restrictions  on
          political contributions from lobbyists

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Sections 1-u and 1-v of the legislative law, section 1-v as
     2  relettered by chapter 1 of the laws of 2005, are renumbered sections 1-w
     3  and 1-x and two new sections 1-u and 1-v are added to read as follows:
     4    § 1-u. Restrictions on political contributions by lobbyists. A  lobby-
     5  ist  shall not solicit, make or transmit a contribution or a request for
     6  a contribution from or to any person, including  a  political  committee
     7  for the benefit of a public official or party committee, for election to
     8  any  state  or  municipal corporation office; except that a lobbyist may
     9  make a political contribution up to two hundred fifty dollars per candi-
    10  date per election; provided however, that for state level  public  offi-
    11  cials,  such contribution may only be made between July first and Decem-
    12  ber thirty-first.
    13    § 1-v. Restrictions on acceptance of political contributions by public
    14  officials. A public official shall not  knowingly  accept,  solicit,  or
    15  transmit  a  contribution or a request for a contribution for himself or
    16  herself or any public official, political committee, or  candidate  from
    17  or  on  behalf  of any lobbyist regulated by this article, except that a
    18  public official may accept political contributions from a  lobbyist,  up
    19  to  two  hundred  fifty dollars per election; provided however, that for
    20  state level public officials, such contribution may only be made between
    21  July first and December thirty-first.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02003-01-3