Assembly Bill A10237

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Decreases contribution limits

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10237 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§14-114 & 14-124, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A446
2023-2024: A2161

2019-A10237 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Reduces campaign contribution limits for candidates for election to a public office or party position to a maximum of $2,800.

2019-A10237 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10237
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 2, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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 decreasing contribution
   limitations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision 1 of section 14-114 of the election law, as
 amended by chapter 79 of the laws of 1992, paragraphs a and b as amended
 by chapter 659 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The following limitations apply to all contributions to  candidates
 for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office,
 or  for  election  to  any  party positions, and to all contributions to
 political committees working directly or indirectly with  any  candidate
 to  aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election, other
 than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee:
   a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office,  no  contributor
 may  make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, and no
 candidate or political committee may accept any  contribution  from  any
 contributor,  which is in the aggregate amount greater than:  (i) in the
 case of any nomination to public office, the product of the total number
 of enrolled voters in the candidate's  party  in  the  state,  excluding
 voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.005, but such amount shall be
 not  [less  than four thousand dollars nor] more than [twelve] TWO thou-
 sand EIGHT HUNDRED dollars as increased or  decreased  by  the  cost  of
 living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision, and (ii)
 in  the  case of any election to a public office, [twenty-five] NOT MORE
 THAN TWO thousand EIGHT HUNDRED dollars as increased or decreased by the
 cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision[;
 provided however, that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or
 accepted, in the aggregate, from any candidate's child,  parent,  grand-
 parent,  brother  and  sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall
 not exceed in the case of any nomination  to  public  office  an  amount
 equivalent to the product of the number of enrolled voters in the candi-

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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