Bill Text: NY A00736 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 736 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to party committee and constituted committee contribution and receipt limits; reduce the annual contribution limits to political parties or constituted committees from $62,500 to $25,000, which shall include contributions to party housekeeping accounts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to election law [A00736 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00736-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           736

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation  to  party  committee  and
          constituted  committee  contribution and receipt limits; and to repeal
          subdivision 3 of section 14-124 of the election law relating thereto

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 10 of section 14-114 of the
     2  election law, as added by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    a.  No  contributor  may make a contribution to a party or constituted
     5  committee and no such committee  may  accept  a  contribution  from  any
     6  contributor  which,  in the aggregate, is greater than [sixty-two] twen-
     7  ty-five thousand [five hundred] dollars per annum, which  shall  include
     8  all  monies  received  for the purposes of maintaining a permanent head-
     9  quarters and staff and for carrying on ordinary activities which are not
    10  for the express purpose of promoting the candidacy  of  specific  candi-
    11  dates.
    12    § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 14-124 of the election law is REPEALED.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00561-01-3