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Assembly Bill A11715

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting the amounts that may be loaned to candidates or political committees

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2025-A11715 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14-114, El L

2025-A11715 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits the amount of money that may be loaned to candidates and political committees; provides that outstanding loans shall be included in determining the aggregate amount of contributions until such loan is repaid.

2025-A11715 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11715
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 16, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Dinowitz) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to limitations on loans to
   candidates or political committees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph f of subdivision 1  of  section
 14-114  of  the  election  law, as amended by chapter 105 of the laws of
 2023, is amended to read as follows:
   (1) At the beginning of each fourth calendar year, commencing in nine-
 teen 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 AND LOAN LIMIT FIXED IN SUBDIVISION  SIX
 OF  THIS  SECTION  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  AND
 LOAN LIMIT. Each contribution limit as so adjusted shall be the contrib-
 ution limit, AND EACH LOAN LIMIT AS SO ADJUSTED SHALL BE THE LOAN LIMIT,
 in  effect  for  any  election  held  before  the next such [adjustment]
 ADJUSTMENTS.
   § 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 6 of section 14-114  of  the  election
 law  is relettered paragraph h and seven new paragraphs c, d, e, f, g, i
 and j are added to read as follows:
   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 PERSON, FIRM,
 ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATION, OTHER THAN A CONSTITUTED COMMITTEE, MAY MAKE
 A LOAN TO ANY CANDIDATE OR POLITICAL  COMMITTEE,  PARTICIPATING  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 LOAN
 FROM ANY PERSON, FIRM, ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATION, OTHER THAN A  CONSTI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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