STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3292

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DINOWITZ, L. ROSENTHAL, GALLAGHER, ROZIC, SIMON,
          KELLES, MAMDANI, STECK -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Election Law

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to matchable contributions
          under the public campaign financing program

          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 11 of section 14-200-a of  the
     2  election  law,  as  added  by section 4 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the
     3  laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "matchable contribution" means a contribution not less  than  five
     5  dollars  and  [not  more  than]  up  to two hundred fifty dollars of any
     6  contribution over such amount, for a candidate for public office  to  be
     7  voted on by the voters of the entire state or for nomination to any such
     8  office,  a  contribution  for  any  covered  elections  held in the same
     9  election cycle, made by a natural person who is a resident in the  state
    10  of  New  York  to  a  participating  candidate,  and for a candidate for
    11  election to the state assembly or state senate or for nomination to  any
    12  such  office,  a contribution for any covered elections held in the same
    13  election cycle, made by a natural person who is also a resident of  such
    14  state  assembly  or  state  senate district from which such candidate is
    15  seeking nomination or election, that has been reported in  full  to  the
    16  PCFB  in  accordance  with sections 14-102 and 14-104 of this article by
    17  the candidate's authorized committee and  has  been  contributed  on  or
    18  before  the  day  of the applicable primary, general, runoff, or special
    19  election. Any contribution, contributions, or a portion  of  a  contrib-
    20  ution determined to be invalid for matching funds by the PCFB may not be
    21  treated as a matchable contribution for any purpose.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03046-01-3