Assembly Bill A2161

2023-2024 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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2023-A2161 (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:
2019-2020: A10237
2021-2022: A446

2023-A2161 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-A2161 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2161
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 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
 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04903-01-3
 A. 2161                             2
              

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