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                                   5491
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2019
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 Introduced  by M. of A. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to contributions to candi-
   dates and political committees
 
   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] SIX thou-
 sand 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]  SUCH  public  office, [twenty-five] SIX thousand
 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, grandparent, brother and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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 candidate's party in the state,
 excluding  voters  in  inactive  status, multiplied by $.025, and in the
 case of any election for a public office, an amount  equivalent  to  the
 product of the number of registered voters in the state excluding voters
 in inactive status, multiplied by $.025.
   b.  In  any  other  election  for  party position or for election to a
 public office or for nomination for 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 election for party position, or  for  nomination  to  public
 office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the candi-
 date's  party  in  the  district  in  which he is a candidate, excluding
 voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.05, and (ii) in the  case  of
 any  election  for  a  public office, the product of the total number of
 registered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive  status,
 multiplied  by $.05, however in the case of a nomination within the city
 of New York for the office of mayor,  public  advocate  or  comptroller,
 such  amount  shall be not less than four thousand dollars nor more than
 twelve thousand dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of  living
 adjustment  described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in the case of
 an election within the city of New York for the office of mayor,  public
 advocate  or  comptroller,  twenty-five thousand dollars as increased or
 decreased by the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph  c  of
 this  subdivision;  in  the  case  of a nomination OR ELECTION for state
 senator, four thousand dollars [as increased or decreased by the cost of
 living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision;  in  the
 case  of  an  election for state senator, six thousand two hundred fifty
 dollars as increased or decreased  by  the  cost  of  living  adjustment
 described  in  paragraph  c  of  this  subdivision];  in  the case of an
 election or nomination  for  a  member  of  the  assembly,  [twenty-five
 hundred]  TWO THOUSAND dollars [as increased or decreased by the cost of
 living adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision;  but  in
 no event shall any such maximum exceed fifty thousand dollars or be less
 than  one  thousand  dollars]; provided however, that the maximum amount
 which may be so contributed or accepted,  in  the  aggregate,  from  any
 candidate's  child,  parent,  grandparent,  brother  and sister, and the
 spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any election
 for party position or nomination for public office an amount  equivalent
 to  the  number  of  enrolled  voters  in  the  candidate's party in the
 district in which he  is  a  candidate,  excluding  voters  in  inactive
 status,  multiplied  by  $.25  and in the case of any election to public
 office, an amount equivalent to the number of registered voters  in  the
 district,  excluding  voters  in inactive status, multiplied by $.25; or
 twelve hundred fifty dollars, whichever is greater, or in the case of  a
 nomination  or  election  of  a  state senator, twenty thousand dollars,
 whichever is greater, or in the case of a nomination or  election  of  a
 member  of  the assembly twelve thousand five hundred dollars, whichever
 is greater, but in no event shall any such maximum  exceed  one  hundred
 thousand dollars.
   c. At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in [nine-
 teen hundred ninety-five] TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-SIX, the state board shall
 determine  the  percentage  of  the  difference  between the most recent
 available monthly consumer price index for all urban consumers published

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 by the United States bureau of labor statistics and such consumer  price
 index  published for the same month four years previously. The amount of
 each contribution limit fixed AND EXPRESSLY IDENTIFIED FOR ADJUSTMENT in
 this  subdivision  shall  be  adjusted  by the amount of such percentage
 difference to the closest one hundred dollars by the state board  which,
 not  later than the first day of February in each such year, shall issue
 a regulation publishing the amount of each such contribution limit. Each
 contribution limit as so adjusted shall be  the  contribution  limit  in
 effect for any election held before the next such adjustment.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.