Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A7069

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to political contributions made by limited liability companies

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

2009-A7069 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5277
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง14-120, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A5916, S38
2013-2014: A112, S178
2015-2016: A2614, S2052

2009-A7069 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to political contributions made by limited liability companies.

2009-A7069 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7069

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 19, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. KAVANAGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Election Law

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  election law, in relation to contributions from
  limited liability companies

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 14-120 of the election law, as
added by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
  2. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, a partnership,  as
defined  in  section  ten of the partnership law, OR A LIMITED LIABILITY
COMPANY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWO OF THE LIMITED  LIABILITY
COMPANY  LAW,  may  be  considered a separate entity for the purposes of
this section, and as such may make contributions in  the  name  of  said
partnership  OR  LIMITED  LIABILITY  COMPANY  without  attributing  such
contributions to the individual members of the  partnership  OR  LIMITED
LIABILITY COMPANY provided that any such contribution made by a partner-
ship  OR  LIMITED  LIABILITY  COMPANY  to  a candidate or to a political
committee, shall not exceed[,] twenty-five hundred dollars. In the event
that such partnership OR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY contribution  to  any
such  candidate  or  political  committee  exceeds  twenty-five  hundred
dollars, the aggregate amount of such contribution shall  be  attributed
to  each  partner OR LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY MEMBER whose share of the
contribution exceeds ninety-nine dollars.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09470-01-9

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.