Bill Text: NY A00053 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the use of campaign funds to pay any settlement fees, fines or penalties for sexual harassment civil or criminal actions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to election law [A00053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00053-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           53

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to  the  use  of  campaign
          funds  to  pay  any  settlement  fees,  fines  or penalties for sexual
          harassment civil or criminal actions

          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 settlement  fees,  fines  or  penalties  assessed
    14  against  the  candidate  in  connection with a criminal or civil action,
    15  investigation, or prosecution involving allegations  of  sexual  harass-
    16  ment.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01688-01-1