Bill Text: NY S01392 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees or any costs for the actual defense of a candidate, public or party official, members of their immediate family or domestic partner in connection with a criminal action, investigation, or prosecution; restricts use of such funds for costs related to certain civil actions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01392-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1392

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. BROOKS, ADDABBO, SANDERS -- 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 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. Paragraphs (x) and (xi) of subdivision 3 of section 14-130
     2  of the election law, paragraph (x) as  amended  and  paragraph  (xi)  as
     3  added  by  chapter  136 of the laws of 2019, are amended and a new para-
     4  graph (xii) is added to read as follows:
     5    (x) travel expenses including automobile purchases or  leases,  unless
     6  used  for  campaign  purposes or in connection with the execution of the
     7  duties of public office or party position  and  usage  of  such  vehicle
     8  which  is  incidental  to such purposes or the execution of such duties;
     9  [and]
    10    (xi) childcare expenses, other than expenses incurred in the  campaign
    11  or in the execution of the duties of public office or party position[.];
    12  and
    13    (xii)  payment  of  any  attorney's  fees  or any costs for the actual
    14  defense of a candidate, public or party official, members of their imme-
    15  diate family, or domestic partner in connection with a criminal  action,
    16  investigation, or prosecution.  Such funds shall only be used exclusive-
    17  ly  for  costs  related  to civil actions instituted pursuant to article
    18  sixteen of this chapter.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03533-01-1