Bill Text: NY S07607 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that any person, acting on behalf of a public officer, candidate or political committee, who solicits a contribution to a party committee or constituted committee for the benefit of a candidate to whom such direct contribution is unlawful, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-11 - REFERRED TO ELECTIONS [S07607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07607-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7607
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. LATIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
        AN ACT to amend the election law and  the  penal  law,  in  relation  to
          penalties  for unlawful campaign contributions to party or constituted
          committees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 14-126 of the election law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. Any person, acting on behalf of a public officer, candidate or  any
     4  authorized  or unauthorized political committee, who solicits a contrib-
     5  ution to any party committee or constituted committee for the benefit of
     6  a candidate to whom a direct contribution of such  amount  is  unlawful,
     7  shall be guilty of a class D felony.
     8    §  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 470.00 of the penal law, as amended by
     9  chapter 489 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    10    3. "Transaction" includes a payment,  purchase,  sale,  loan,  pledge,
    11  gift, transfer, or delivery, and with respect to a financial institution
    12  includes  a  deposit, withdrawal, transfer between accounts, exchange of
    13  currency, loan, extension of credit, purchase  or  sale  of  any  stock,
    14  bond,  certificate  of  deposit,  or other monetary instrument, use of a
    15  safe deposit box, or  any  other  payment,  transfer,  or  delivery  by,
    16  through,  or  to a financial institution, by whatever means effected, or
    17  any act prohibited by section 14-126 of the election  law,  except  that
    18  "transaction"   shall  not  include  payments  to  attorneys  for  legal
    19  services.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15345-01-6