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                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 19, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. MAMDANI, GALLAGHER, GALEF, J. D. RIVERA, FORREST,
   MITAYNES,   BURKE,   EPSTEIN,   BURGOS,   JACKSON,   MEEKS,   SEPTIMO,
   GONZALEZ-ROJAS, CLARK, KELLES, DAVILA, BUTTENSCHON, ANDERSON  --  read
   once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Election Law -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  eliminating  family
   contribution exceptions
 
   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  section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, 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, partic-
 ipating  in  the  state's  public  campaign financing system pursuant to
 title two of this article and no such candidate or  political  committee
 may accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggre-
 gate amount greater than eighteen thousand dollars divided equally among
 the  primary and general election in an election cycle[; provided howev-
 er, 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  nomination  to  public office an amount equivalent to the

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

                                                            LBD08562-03-1

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 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  participat-
 ing  in  the  state's public campaign financing system pursuant to title
 two of this article and no such candidate  or  political  committee  may
 accept  any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggregate
 amount greater than election for party position, or  for  nomination  to
 public office, the product of the total 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 $.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, ten thousand dollars, divided equally  among  the  primary  and
 general  election  in  an  election cycle; in the case of an election or
 nomination for a member of the assembly, six thousand  dollars,  divided
 equally  among  the  primary and general election in an election cycle[;
 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 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 great-
 er, or in the case of a nomination or election of a state senator, twen-
 ty thousand dollars, whichever is greater, or in the  case  of  a  nomi-
 nation  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. 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  in
 connection  with  a  candidate  who  is not a participating candidate as
 defined in subdivision fourteen of section 14-200-a of this article, and
 no such candidate or political committee  may  accept  any  contribution
 from  any  contributor,  which  is  in the aggregate amount greater than
 eighteen thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general
 election in an election  cycle[;  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

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 spouse  of  any  such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any nomi-
 nation to public office an amount  equivalent  to  the  product  of  the
 number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, exclud-
 ing  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  inac-
 tive status, multiplied by $.025].
   d.  In  any nomination or election of a candidate who is not a partic-
 ipating candidate for  state  senator,  ten  thousand  dollars,  divided
 equally  among the primary and general election in an election cycle; in
 the case of an election or nomination for a member of the assembly,  six
 thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general election
 in an election cycle.
   e.(1)  At  the  beginning  of each fourth calendar year, commencing in
 nineteen hundred  ninety-five,  the  state  board  shall  determine  the
 percentage  of  the difference between the most recent available monthly
 consumer price index for all urban consumers  published  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  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) Provided, however, that  such  adjustments  shall  not  occur  for
 candidates seeking statewide office, or the position of state senator or
 member  of the assembly, whether such candidate does or does not partic-
 ipate in the public finance program established pursuant to title two of
 this article.
   f. Notwithstanding any  other  contribution  limit  in  this  section,
 participating  candidates  as defined in subdivision fourteen of section
 14-200-a of this article may contribute, out of their own  money,  three
 times  the applicable contribution limit to their own authorized commit-
 tee.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner as section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, takes
 effect.