Bill Text: NY S02097 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that any person, acting on behalf of a public officer, candidate or political committee, who solicits a contribution to a county or town committee for the benefit of a candidate to whom such direct contribution is unlawful, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02097 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02097-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2097
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 12, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. MURPHY, AKSHAR, CROCI, FUNKE, ROBACH, SERINO -- read
          twice  and  ordered  printed,  and when printed to be committed to the
          Committee on Elections
        AN ACT to amend the election law and  the  penal  law,  in  relation  to
          penalties  for  unlawful  campaign  contributions  to  county  or town
          committees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 14-126 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. Any person, acting on behalf of a public officer, candidate or  any
     4  authorized  or unauthorized political committee, who solicits a contrib-
     5  ution to a county or town committee for the benefit of  a  candidate  to
     6  whom  a  direct contribution of such amount is unlawful, shall be guilty
     7  of a class D felony.
     8    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 470.00 of the penal law, as  amended  by
     9  chapter 489 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    10    3.  "Transaction"  includes  a  payment, purchase, sale, loan, pledge,
    11  gift, transfer, or delivery, and with respect to a financial institution
    12  includes a deposit, withdrawal, transfer between accounts,  exchange  of
    13  currency,  loan,  extension  of  credit,  purchase or sale of any stock,
    14  bond, certificate of deposit, or other monetary  instrument,  use  of  a
    15  safe  deposit  box,  or  any  other  payment,  transfer, or delivery by,
    16  through, or to a financial institution, by whatever means  effected,  or
    17  any  act  prohibited  by section 14-126 of the election law, except that
    18  "transaction"  shall  not  include  payments  to  attorneys  for   legal
    19  services.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02325-01-7
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