Bill Text: NY A00729 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Limits a candidate for public office to one authorized committee per election; defines the term "multi-candidate committee" and provides that such a committee may not be authorized by a candidate.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to election law [A00729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00729-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          729
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Election Law
       AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to limiting a candidate to
         one authorized committee per election, per office
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section 14-100 of the election law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A. "MULTI-CANDIDATE COMMITTEE" MEANS A POLITICAL COMMITTEE WHICH HAS
    4  BEEN IN EXISTENCE FOR AT LEAST SIX MONTHS, HAS RECEIVED CONTRIBUTIONS OF
    5  MONEY FROM MORE THAN FIFTY PERSONS, HAS MADE CONTRIBUTIONS OF  MONEY  TO
    6  AT LEAST FIVE CANDIDATES IN NEW YORK STATE, MAKES ONLY MONETARY CONTRIB-
    7  UTIONS AND IS NOT AN AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE FOR ANY CANDIDATE.
    8    S  2. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by chapter 930 of
    9  the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   10    S 14-112.  Political committee authorization statement.  Any political
   11  committee aiding or taking part in the election  or  nomination  of  any
   12  candidate, other than by making contributions, shall file, in the office
   13  in  which  the  statements of such committee are to be filed pursuant to
   14  this article, either a sworn verified statement by the treasurer of such
   15  committee AND THE CANDIDATE that [the] SUCH candidate has authorized the
   16  political committee to aid or take part in his  OR  HER  election  or  A
   17  SWORN  VERIFIED  STATEMENT  BY  THE TREASURER OF SUCH COMMITTEE that the
   18  candidate has not authorized the committee to aid or take part in his OR
   19  HER election. NO CANDIDATE MAY AUTHORIZE MORE THAN ONE COMMITTEE FOR ANY
   20  ONE ELECTION. A MULTI-CANDIDATE  COMMITTEE  MAY  NOT  BE  AN  AUTHORIZED
   21  COMMITTEE.
   22    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04437-01-3