Bill Text: NY S01085 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to campaign contributions by intermediaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-06 - PRINT NUMBER 1085C [S01085 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1085--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 6, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. RIVERA, ADDABBO, GIANARIS, KENNEDY, SERRANO, STAVI-
          SKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be  commit-
          ted  to  the  Committee  on  Elections  --  committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee  --  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 campaign contributions
          by intermediaries
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 14-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. "intermediary"  means  an  individual,  corporation,  partnership,
     4  political  committee,  labor  organization, or other entity which, other
     5  than in the regular course of business as a postal, delivery, or messen-
     6  ger service, delivers any contribution from another person or entity  to
     7  a candidate or an authorized committee.
     8    "Intermediary"  shall  not  include  spouses,  parents,  children,  or
     9  siblings of the person making such contribution.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 14-102 of the election law,  as  amended
    11  by  chapter  8  and as redesignated by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978, is
    12  amended to read as follows:
    13    1. The treasurer of every political committee which, or  any  officer,
    14  member  or  agent  of  any  such  committee  who, in connection with any
    15  election, receives or expends any  money  or  other  valuable  thing  or
    16  incurs  any  liability  to pay money or its equivalent shall file state-
    17  ments sworn, or subscribed and bearing a form notice that  false  state-
    18  ments  made  therein are punishable as a class A misdemeanor pursuant to
    19  section 210.45 of the penal law, at the times prescribed by this article
    20  setting forth all the receipts, contributions to and the expenditures by
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 1085--B                          2
     1  and liabilities of the committee,  and  of  its  officers,  members  and
     2  agents in its behalf. Such statements shall include the dollar amount of
     3  any  receipt,  contribution or transfer, or the fair market value of any
     4  receipt,  contribution  or  transfer,  which is other than of money, the
     5  name and address of the transferor, contributor, intermediary, or person
     6  from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor, intermediary, or
     7  person is a political committee; the name  of  and  the  political  unit
     8  represented by the committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount
     9  of  every expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was
    10  made or the name of and the political unit represented by the  committee
    11  to  which  it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
    12  purpose of such expenditure. An intermediary need not be reported for  a
    13  contribution  that was collected from a contributor in connection with a
    14  party or other candidate-related event held  at  the  residence  of  the
    15  person delivering the contribution, unless the expenses of such event at
    16  such  residence  for  such  candidate exceed five hundred dollars or the
    17  aggregate contributions received from that  contributor  at  such  event
    18  exceed  five  hundred dollars. Any statement reporting a loan shall have
    19  attached to it a copy of the evidence of indebtedness.  Expenditures  in
    20  sums under fifty dollars need not be specifically accounted for by sepa-
    21  rate  items in said statements, and receipts and contributions aggregat-
    22  ing not more than ninety-nine dollars, from any one contributor need not
    23  be specifically accounted for by  separate  items  in  said  statements,
    24  provided  however,  that  such  expenditures, receipts and contributions
    25  shall be subject to the other provisions of section 14-118 of this arti-
    26  cle.
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect June 1, 2018.