Assembly Bill A8242

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Renders candidates ineligible to receive public matching funds when such candidate has been found in a prior election cycle to have misused public campaign funds

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A8242 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Add §14-203-a, El L

2025-A8242 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Renders candidates ineligible to receive public matching funds when such candidate has been found in a prior election cycle to have knowingly and willfully misused public campaign funds or committed fraud, conversion or unauthorized personal use of such funds; states that such ineligibility continues until the candidate has repaid such funds, satisfied civil penalties, and complied with orders imposed as a result of such prior misuse of public funds.

2025-A8242 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8242
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HOOKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN ACT to amend the  election  law,  in  relation  to  ineligibility  to
   receive public matching funds due to the prior misuse of public funds
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The election  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new  section
 14-203-a to read as follows:
   §  14-203-A.  INELIGIBILITY; PRIOR MISUSE OF PUBLIC FUNDS. 1. A CANDI-
 DATE SHALL BE INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE PUBLIC  MATCHING  FUNDS  UNDER  THIS
 TITLE IF SUCH CANDIDATE HAS BEEN FOUND IN A PRIOR ELECTION CYCLE TO HAVE
 KNOWINGLY  AND  WILLFULLY  MISUSED  PUBLIC  CAMPAIGN  FUNDS OR COMMITTED
 FRAUD, CONVERSION, OR UNAUTHORIZED PERSONAL USE OF SUCH FUNDS, AS DETER-
 MINED BY A FINAL ORDER OF THE STATE  BOARD  OF  ELECTIONS,  A  COURT  OF
 COMPETENT JURISDICTION, OR ANY OTHER LAWFUL ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY.
   2.  SUCH  INELIGIBILITY  SHALL CONTINUE UNLESS AND UNTIL THE CANDIDATE
 HAS FULLY REPAID  ANY  MISUSED  FUNDS,  SATISFIED  ALL  CIVIL  PENALTIES
 RELATED  TO SUCH MISUSED FUNDS, AND COMPLIED WITH ANY REMEDIAL OR RESTI-
 TUTION ORDERS IMPOSED AS  A  RESULT  OF  SUCH  PRIOR  MISUSE  OF  PUBLIC
 CAMPAIGN FUNDS OR FRAUD, CONVERSION OR UNAUTHORIZED PERSONAL USE OF SUCH
 FUNDS.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
 candidates participating in public financing beginning on and after  the
 first  of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become
 a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11872-01-5

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