Assembly Bill A4181

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of campaign funds for attorney's fees

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  • 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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2017-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S88
Current Committee:
Assembly Election Law
Law Section:
Election Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14-130, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S5094
2015-2016: A9331, S338
2019-2020: A1827, S50
2021-2022: A4174, S682
2023-2024: S896

2017-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the use of campaign funds to pay attorney's fees.

2017-A4181 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4181
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Election Law
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the election law, in relation to the use of campaign
   funds to pay attorney's fees
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 14-130 of the election law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. NO CAMPAIGN FUNDS SHALL BE USED TO PAY ATTORNEY'S FEES OR ANY COSTS
 OF DEFENDING AGAINST ANY CIVIL  OR  CRIMINAL  ACTION,  INVESTIGATION  OR
 PROSECUTION  FOR  ALLEGED  VIOLATIONS OF STATE OR FEDERAL LAW ALLEGED TO
 HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY A CANDIDATE, PUBLIC OR PARTY OFFICIAL, MEMBERS OF
 THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY OR DOMESTIC PARTNER UNLESS  SUCH  EXPENDITURE  IS
 USED  EXCLUSIVELY FOR COSTS RELATED TO CIVIL ACTIONS INSTITUTED PURSUANT
 TO ARTICLE SIXTEEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have  become a law; provided, however, that the state board of elections
 shall notify  all  registered  campaign  committees  of  the  applicable
 provisions  of  this  act  within  thirty days after this act shall have
 become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05306-01-7

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