What's happening
This bill requires party committees' non-candidate funds to be kept in separate accounts and restricts their use for political communications involving specific candidates.
Why it matters
Limits potential circumvention of campaign finance rules. by requiring party committees to keep non-candidate funds in separate accounts, making it harder to redirect these funds for candidate-specific advocacy.
Ensures greater transparency and accountability. in how party committees spend money, as non-candidate funds can no longer be used for communications that mention, show, or feature specific candidates or elected officials.
Narrows the scope of party committee spending. to truly non-candidate activities, potentially reducing the influence of large, unrestricted donations on electoral campaigns and limiting indirect support for candidates.
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Who cares
Party committees and constituted committees
The bill would restrict transfers from their segregated accounts to other party or constituted committees’ segregated accounts for non-candidate expenditures only.
Party committee treasurers and staff
They would need to ensure these funds do not pay for political communications naming, depicting or using the voice of a clearly identified candidate or elected official.
Candidates and elected officials
The bill would bar these accounts from funding political communications that identify them and clarify that activities expressly opposing specific candidates do not qualify for the contribution and receipt limit exemption.
Headline styles
Limit Party Committee Spending
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to election law
- Referred to election law
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1412
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, D'URSO, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARNWELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 14-124 of the election law, as amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 286 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
3. The contribution and receipt limits of this article shall not apply to monies received and expenditures made by a party committee or constituted committee to maintain a permanent headquarters and staff and carry on ordinary activities which are not for the express purpose of promoting or opposing the candidacy of specific candidates; provided that such monies described in this subdivision shall be deposited in a segregated account and shall not be transferred or contributed, unless such transfer or contribution is to the segregated account of another party committee or constituted committee to be used only for non-candidate expenditures. Provided, further, that such monies may not be used to pay for any political communication that includes or references the name, likeness or voice of any clearly identified candidate or elected official.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01680-01-9
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