Bill Text: NY S05914 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the board of elections to maintain a database of all campaign finance disclosure report filers and to provide a means to search such database for active filers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S05914 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05914-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5914

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- 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 the board  of
          elections  to  maintain  a database of all campaign finance disclosure
          report filers and to provide a  means  to  search  such  database  for
          active filers

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

     1    Section 1. The election law is amended by adding a new section  14-123
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  14-123.  Database of campaign finance disclosure report filers. The
     4  board of elections shall maintain a database  of  all  campaign  finance
     5  disclosure  report  filers  on its website. The board of elections shall
     6  establish a means to limit a search of such database to  display  active
     7  filers only.
     8    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     9  law.  Effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of any  rule  or
    10  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
    11  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
    12  date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07929-01-9
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