What's happening
This bill requires additional identification information, including occupation and employer, for campaign contributions over $99 in New York.
Why it matters
Increases transparency in campaign finance. by requiring campaigns to report not just names and addresses, but also the occupation, employer, and employer address of individual donors who give over $99. This helps the public and regulators better understand the sources of political funding.
Helps identify influence from specific industries or organizations. , making it easier to track patterns such as large donations coming from certain business sectors, unions, or interest groups, and potentially identifying conflicts of interest or attempts at undue influence.
Closes loopholes in current disclosure requirements. by ensuring that the identities of those who make multiple small contributions that total over $99 are also disclosed, reducing the possibility of donors evading transparency by spreading out their donations.
Aligns New York with best practices seen in other states and federal campaign finance law. , potentially supporting efforts to curb corruption, increase accountability, and provide voters with more information about who is funding political campaigns.
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Require More Donor Information
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History
- Referred to election law
- Referred to election law
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Require Full Donor Disclosure
In Senate Committee · Elections · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2028
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 Assembly, 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 statements sworn, or subscribed and bearing a form notice that false statements 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, contributor 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 identification shall apply only with respect to a transfer or contribution from
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[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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 contribution which occurs after such ninety-nine dollar threshold is reached. The other identification required with respect to an individual transferor or contributor shall be his or her occupation, employer and employer's address. 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 address. Any statement reporting a loan shall have attached to it a copy of the evidence of indebtedness. Expenditures in sums under fifty dollars need not be specifically accounted for by separate items in said statements, 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 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
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