Bill Text: NY S01503 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits candidates from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S01503 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01503-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1503

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections

        AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting  candidates
          from  authorizing  more  than  one  political  committee  for  any one
          election

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

     1    Section 1. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by section 8
     2  of  part  A  of  chapter  286 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    §  14-112.  [Political]  Authorized  committee;  political   committee
     5  authorization  statement.  1.  Any  political committee aiding or taking
     6  part in the election or nomination of any candidate, other than a  poli-
     7  tical  action  committee,  shall file, in the office in which the state-
     8  ments of such committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either
     9  a sworn verified statement by the treasurer of such  committee  and  the
    10  candidate that [the] such candidate has authorized the political commit-
    11  tee  to  aid  or  take  part  in his or her election or a sworn verified
    12  statement by the treasurer of such committee that the candidate has  not
    13  authorized the committee to aid or take part in his or her election.
    14    2.  No  candidate  may authorize more than one political committee for
    15  any one election.  Any candidate who, on December  first,  two  thousand
    16  twenty-four,  has  authorized  more than one political committee for any
    17  one election shall, not later than thirty days after said date,  disavow
    18  all  but  one  of  such  committees,  in  writing, to the state board of
    19  elections. This subdivision shall not apply to the authorization  of  an
    20  exploratory  committee  by an elected public official. A multi-candidate
    21  committee may not be an authorized committee.
    22    3. Campaign funds  remaining  in  any  disavowed  committee  shall  be
    23  disposed of pursuant to this article.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04231-01-3
        S. 1503                             2

     1    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     2  have become a law; provided, however, that the state board of  elections
     3  shall  notify  all candidates and political committees of the applicable
     4  provisions of this act within thirty days  after  this  act  shall  have
     5  become a law.