STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9007 IN SENATE September 25, 2020 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the New York voter integrity fund; and to repeal section 92-t of the state finance law relating to the New York state campaign finance fund The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 92-t of the state finance law is REPEALED and a new 2 section 92-t is added to read as follows: 3 § 92-t. New York voter integrity fund. 1. There is hereby established 4 in the joint custody of the state comptroller and the commissioner of 5 taxation and finance a fund to be known as the New York voter integrity 6 fund. 7 2. Such fund shall consist of all revenues from the abandoned property 8 fund pursuant to section ninety-five of this article, from the general 9 fund, and from all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any 10 other fund or source pursuant to law. Such fund shall also receive 11 contributions from private individuals, organizations, or other persons 12 to fulfill the purposes of the voter integrity fund. 13 3. Moneys of the fund, following appropriation by the legislature, may 14 be expended for the purposes of making payments to the board of 15 elections for expenses related to conducting elections, including, but 16 not limited to, expenses related to personal protective equipment, poll 17 worker wages, pre-paid postage for absentee ballots, absentee ballot 18 envelopes, mail notification cards, absentee ballot applications and 19 absentee ballots. 20 4. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, if, in any 21 state fiscal year, the New York voter integrity fund lacks the amount of 22 money to pay all claims vouchered by the board of elections and certi- 23 fied or approved by the state board of elections, any such deficiency 24 shall be paid by the state comptroller, from funds deposited in the 25 general fund of the state not more than four working days after such 26 voucher is received by the state comptroller. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD17207-01-0

S. 9007 2 1 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 95 of the state finance 2 law, as added by section 6 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 3 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Notwithstanding any provision of this section authorizing the 5 transfer of any moneys in the abandoned property fund to the general 6 fund, the comptroller, after receiving amounts sufficient to pay claims 7 against the abandoned property fund, shall, based upon a certification 8 of the state board of elections pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdi- 9 vision, and at the direction of the director of the budget, transfer the 10 requested amount from remaining available monies in the abandoned prop- 11 erty fund to the [~~campaign finance~~] New York voter integrity fund estab- 12 lished by section ninety-two-t of this article. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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