Assembly Bill A9002

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the disclosure of the identities of political committees making certain expenditures for political communications

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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-A9002 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7313
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§14-107 & 14-126, El L (as proposed in S.4910 & A.4668)

2019-A9002 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the disclosure of the identities of political committees making certain expenditures for political communications.

2019-A9002 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9002
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ZEBROWSKI  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to disclosure of the iden-
   tities of political committees making certain expenditures  for  poli-
   tical communications
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 14-107 of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2019, amending the election law
 relating to disclosure of the identities of political committees  making
 certain expenditures for political communications, as proposed in legis-
 lative bills numbers S. 4910 and A. 4668, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Whenever any person makes an independent expenditure, such communi-
 cation  shall,  in a manner consistent with section 14-106 of this arti-
 cle, clearly state the name of the person who  paid  for,  or  otherwise
 published  or  distributed  the communication and state, with respect to
 communications regarding candidates,  that  the  communication  was  not
 expressly  authorized  or  requested  by any candidate, or by any candi-
 date's political committee or any of its agents; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT
 PARAGRAPHS THREE AND FOUR OF SECTION 14-106 OF THIS  ARTICLE  SHALL  NOT
 APPLY TO THE DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS UNDER THIS SECTION.
   §  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 14-126 of the election law, as amended
 by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the election law relating  to
 disclosure  of  the  identities  of  political committees making certain
 expenditures for political communications, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 4910 and A. 4668, is amended to read as follows:
   3.  Any  person  who falsely identifies or knowingly fails to identify
 any independent expenditure as required by subdivision  two  of  section
 14-107  of  this  article  or any political [committee] COMMUNICATION as
 required in section 14-106 of this article shall be subject to  a  civil
 penalty  up  to  one  thousand dollars or up to the cost of the communi-
 cation, whichever is greater, in a special proceeding  or  civil  action
 brought by the state board of elections chief enforcement counsel pursu-
 ant  to paragraph (a) of subdivision five of section 3-104 of this chap-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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