NY State Senate Bill 2021-S2546

Senate Bill S2546

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements

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Delivered to Governor
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2021-S2546 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Elections
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §14-102, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2011-2012: S6409
2013-2014: S941
2015-2016: S1360
2017-2018: S1218
2019-2020: S492
2023-2024: S2362

2021-S2546 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the filing of additional transferor and contributor identification information in campaign receipt and expenditure statements for the receipt of amounts over one hundred dollars, including the occupation, employer and employer's address in the case of an individual, and the full name and address of any partnership, committee, association, corporation, labor organization or group of persons.

2021-S2546 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2546

SPONSOR: RIVERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the election law, in relation to requiring additional
transferor and contributor identification information in campaign
receipt and expenditure statements

 
PURPOSE:

This bill would require a political committee to disclose a contribu-
tor's occupation, employer and full name and address.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill would amend subdivision 1 of section 14-102 of the
election law, as amended by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redes-
ignated by chapter 9 of the laws of 1978, to require a political commit-
tee to disclose additional information regarding contributors who give
$100 or more to a political committee. For individual contributors

giving $100 or more, the contributor's occupation, employer, and employ-
er's address would be required. For organizational contributors deline-
ated in the amended text, the additional information would be the full
name and address of the organization.

Section 2 of the bill establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Campaign fundraising practices are having a corrosive effect on the
public's confidence in the integrity of government. Too often, citizens
feel that their individual votes are of little consequence.  The cumula-
tive impact is a significant threat to the fundamental values of democ-
racy. A fundamental component of campaign finance laws is that campaign
committees must disclose the identity of contributors. The rationale is
that public awareness of who has contributed may reduce the possibility
of elected officials favoring contributors. Requiring that significant
contributors disclose their occupations and employers is necessary to
ensure that contributors are adequately identified and to provide the
public with additional information that may be useful in assessing where
a contributor's interests may lie-and how an elected official might
favor that contributor. The additional identification information
required by the bill is the same as is required under federal law for
contributions to federal political committees.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2013-2014: S941/ No Same as

2015-2016: S1360/ A7321 Pichardo

2017-2018: S1218/ A5898 Pichardo.

2019-2020: S492/A2028 Pichardo

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of December next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.

2021-S2546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2546
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections
 
 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  ASSEM-
 BLY, 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  state-
 ments  sworn,  or subscribed and bearing a form notice that false state-
 ments 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, contrib-
 utor 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 IDENTIFI-
 CATION SHALL APPLY ONLY WITH RESPECT TO A TRANSFER OR CONTRIBUTION  FROM
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD07237-01-1

 S. 2546                             2
 
 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 CONTRIB-
 UTION  WHICH  OCCURS AFTER SUCH NINETY-NINE DOLLAR THRESHOLD IS REACHED.
 THE OTHER IDENTIFICATION REQUIRED WITH RESPECT TO AN INDIVIDUAL TRANSFE-
 ROR OR CONTRIBUTOR SHALL BE HIS OR HER OCCUPATION, EMPLOYER AND  EMPLOY-
 ER'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 succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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