Assembly Bill A4174

2021-2022 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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2021-A4174 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S682
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
2017-2018: A4181, S88
2019-2020: A1827, S50
2023-2024: S896

2021-A4174 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A4174 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4174
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LAVINE, GRIFFIN, ASHBY -- 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.
                                                            LBD05584-01-1

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