Bill Text: NY A00083 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the Bloomberg waiver for candidates in compliance with NYC's campaign finance board regulations regarding a voluntary personal spending limit; failure to set a voluntary limit waives the existing limitations on an opposing publicly funded candidate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to election law [A00083 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A00083-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 83 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to fair competition for publicly financed candidates by establishing the Bloomberg waiver The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 3-718 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as 3 separately added by local law numbers 58, 59 and 60 of the city of New 4 York for the year 2004, is amended to read as follows: 5 (iii) (A) file a written certification in such form as may be 6 prescribed by the campaign finance board, which sets forth his or her 7 acceptance of and agreement to comply with the terms and conditions of 8 this section and the rules promulgated hereby, which includes an affir- 9 mation that the candidate has a sufficient amount of personal funds to 10 fund his or her campaign; [and] 11 (B) that the campaign finance board shall propose to such candidate a 12 voluntary personal funds spending limit of not more than one hundred 13 twenty-five percent of such campaign finance board's recommended expend- 14 iture limit of the elected office contested; provided, however, that if 15 such limit is declined by such candidate, a Bloomberg waiver of the 16 existing limitations on an opposing, publicly funded candidate's ability 17 to raise and expend private funds may be granted by the campaign finance 18 board upon application, in a manner determined by such board, and upon a 19 showing of substantial financial disadvantage demonstrated by the 20 disparity in personal funds available; provided, however, that once such 21 waiver is granted, the financially disadvantaged candidate may not 22 expend a greater amount than the amount expended by the personally fund- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02622-01-9A. 83 2 1 ed opponent as reported to the state board of elections; except that the 2 limitations on matching funds shall not be modified; and 3 (C) the deadline for filing such certification for a primary, general, 4 or special election shall be the deadline date for filing written 5 certifications pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section 6 [3-703(1)(c)] 3-703 by candidates seeking nomination for election or 7 election to the same office in the same calendar year as candidates 8 seeking to file a certification pursuant to this subparagraph, and the 9 provisions of paragraph (c) of subdivision one of [such] section 10 [3-703(1)(c)] 3-703 relating to the occurrence of an "extraordinary 11 circumstance" shall apply to limited participating candidates; and 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to 14 elections occurring on or after such effective date.
