Assembly Bill A6542

                             
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                                   6542
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 14, 2023
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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  requiring  additional
   transferor  and  contributor  identification  information  in campaign
   receipt and expenditure statements

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of section 14-102 of the election law, as
 amended by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by  chapter
 9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  treasurer of every political committee which, or any officer,
 member or agent of any  such  committee  who,  in  connection  with  any
 election,  receives  or  expends  any  money  or other valuable thing or
 incurs any liability to pay money or its equivalent  shall  file  state-
 ments  sworn,  or subscribed and bearing a form notice that false state-
 ments made therein are punishable as a class A misdemeanor  pursuant  to
 section 210.45 of the penal law, at the times prescribed by this article
 setting forth all the receipts, contributions to and the expenditures by
 and  liabilities  of  the  committee,  and  of its officers, members and
 agents in its behalf. Such statements shall include the dollar amount of
 any receipt, contribution or transfer, or the fair market value  of  any
 receipt,  contribution  or  transfer,  which is other than of money, the
 name [and], address AND OTHER IDENTIFICATION of the transferor, contrib-
 utor or person from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or
 person is a political committee; the name  of  and  the  political  unit
 represented by the committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount
 of  every expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was
 made or the name of and the political unit represented by the  committee
 to  which  it was made and the date thereof, and shall state clearly the
 purpose of such expenditure.  THE REQUIREMENT TO INCLUDE OTHER IDENTIFI-
 CATION SHALL APPLY ONLY WITH RESPECT TO A TRANSFER OR CONTRIBUTION  FROM
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01777-02-3
              

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 ANY  ONE TRANSFEROR OR CONTRIBUTOR WHICH EITHER RESULTS IN THE AGGREGATE
 TRANSFERS OR CONTRIBUTIONS  FROM  THAT  ONE  TRANSFEROR  OR  CONTRIBUTOR
 EXCEEDING  THE  SUM  OF NINETY-NINE DOLLARS OR IS A TRANSFER OR CONTRIB-
 UTION  WHICH  OCCURS AFTER SUCH NINETY-NINE DOLLAR THRESHOLD IS REACHED.
 THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSFE-
 ROR OR CONTRIBUTOR SHALL BE HIS  OR  HER  FULL  NAME,  FULL  RESIDENTIAL
 ADDRESS,  INCLUDING ANY SUITE, FLOOR, OR APARTMENT, OCCUPATION, EMPLOYER
 AND EMPLOYER'S FULL BUSINESS ADDRESS, INCLUDING  ANY  SUITE,  FLOOR,  OR
 APARTMENT NUMBER.  THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO ANY
 PARTNERSHIP,  COMMITTEE, ASSOCIATION, CORPORATION, LABOR ORGANIZATION OR
 OTHER ORGANIZATION OR GROUP OF PERSONS SHALL BE ITS FULL NAME  AND  FULL
 BUSINESS  ADDRESS,  INCLUDING ANY SUITE, FLOOR, OR APARTMENT NUMBER. Any
 statement reporting a loan shall have attached  to  it  a  copy  of  the
 evidence  of  indebtedness, AND SHALL INCLUDE THE FULL BUSINESS NAME AND
 ADDRESS, INCLUDING ANY SUITE, FLOOR, OR APARTMENT NUMBER OF ANY  COMMER-
 CIAL  OR  BUSINESS  ENTITY  PROVIDING  THE LOAN, OR THE FULL NAME OF ANY
 PERSON PROVIDING  THE  LOAN,  INCLUDING  HIS  OR  HER  FULL  RESIDENTIAL
 ADDRESS,  INCLUDING  ANY  SUITE,  FLOOR OR APARTMENT NUMBER, OCCUPATION,
 EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYER'S FULL  BUSINESS  ADDRESS,  INCLUDING  ANY  SUITE,
 FLOOR,  AND  APARTMENT NUMBER.  Expenditures in sums under fifty dollars
 need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said  state-
 ments,  and receipts and contributions aggregating not more than ninety-
 nine  dollars,  from  any  one  contributor  need  not  be  specifically
 accounted  for  by  separate items in said statements, provided however,
 that such expenditures, receipts and contributions shall be  subject  to
 the other provisions of section 14-118 of this article.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.