Bill Text: NY S07309 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Eliminates duplicate electronic filing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - signed chap.34 [S07309 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S07309-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7309 IN SENATE January 17, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to the elimination of duplicate electronic filing The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 14-105 of the election law, as added by a chapter 2 of the laws of 2019, amending the election law relating to satisfying 3 filing requirements, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3134 4 and A. 1740, is amended to read as follows: 5 § 14-105. Elimination of duplicate electronic filing. 1. Any candidate 6 or authorized political committee of a candidate required to file elec- 7 tronically with the state board of elections shall be deemed to have 8 satisfied such filing requirements upon making electronic filings with a 9 local campaign finance board, provided the state board of elections 10 determines: (i) the filing format, standards and review and audit of 11 filings of such campaign finance board meet or exceed the requirements 12 imposed by this article; and (ii) the campaign finance filing data of 13 such local campaign finance board is publicly available in a manner at 14 least substantially equivalent to the board of elections publication of 15 campaign finance filings; and (iii) such local campaign finance board 16 will provide the chief enforcement counsel of the state board of 17 elections notice of filing delinquencies and non-filings. 18 2. If the state board of elections permits filings with a local 19 campaign finance board to be deemed filings with the state board of 20 elections, such board shall provide a link on its website to the public 21 disclosure and search functions of the website of such local campaign 22 finance board. 23 3. A determination permitting filings with a local campaign finance 24 board to be deemed filings with the state board of elections shall be 25 revoked upon a determination that the local campaign finance board no 26 longer complies with any one or more of the criteria enumerated in para- 27 graphs (i), (ii) and (iii) of subdivision one of this section. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01923-02-9S. 7309 2 1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 2 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the election law 3 relating to satisfying filing requirements, as proposed in legislative 4 bills numbers S. 3134 and A. 1740, takes effect.