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                                  4729--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. BIAGGI, BRISPORT, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and  when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on
   Elections  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the election law,  in  relation  to  eliminating  family
   contribution exceptions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 14-114 of  the  election  law,  as
 amended  by  section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. The following limitations apply to all contributions to  candidates
 for election to any public office or for nomination for any such office,
 or  for  election  to  any  party positions, and to all contributions to
 political committees working directly or indirectly with  any  candidate
 to  aid or participate in such candidate's nomination or election, other
 than any contributions to any party committee or constituted committee:
   a. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office,  no  contributor
 may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee, partic-
 ipating  in  the  state's  public  campaign financing system pursuant to
 title two of this article and no such candidate or  political  committee
 may accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggre-
 gate amount greater than eighteen thousand dollars divided equally among
 the  primary and general election in an election cycle[; provided howev-
 er, that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or accepted,  in
 the  aggregate, from any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother
 and sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in  the
 case  of  any  nomination  to  public office an amount equivalent to the
 product of the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the
 state, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and  in

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD08562-02-1

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 the  case  of  any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to
 the product of the number of registered voters in  the  state  excluding
 voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025].
   b.  In  any  other  election  for  party position or for election to a
 public office or for nomination for any such office, no contributor  may
 make  a contribution to any candidate or political committee participat-
 ing in the state's public campaign financing system  pursuant  to  title
 two  of  this  article  and no such candidate or political committee may
 accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the  aggregate
 amount  greater  than  election for party position, or for nomination to
 public office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the
 candidate's party in the district in which he is a candidate,  excluding
 voters  in  inactive status, multiplied by $.05, and (ii) in the case of
 any election for a public office, the product of  the  total  number  of
 registered  voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive status,
 multiplied by $.05, however in the case of a nomination within the  city
 of  New  York  for  the office of mayor, public advocate or comptroller,
 such amount shall be not less than four thousand dollars nor  more  than
 twelve  thousand dollars as increased or decreased by the cost of living
 adjustment described in paragraph c of this subdivision; in the case  of
 an  election within the city of New York for the office of mayor, public
 advocate or comptroller, twenty-five thousand dollars  as  increased  or
 decreased  by  the cost of living adjustment described in paragraph c of
 this subdivision; in the case of a  nomination  or  election  for  state
 senator,  ten  thousand  dollars,  divided equally among the primary and
 general election in an election cycle; in the case  of  an  election  or
 nomination  for  a member of the assembly, six thousand dollars, divided
 equally among the primary and general election in  an  election  cycle[;
 provided however, that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or
 accepted,  in  the aggregate, from any candidate's child, parent, grand-
 parent, brother and sister, and the spouse of any  such  persons,  shall
 not  exceed in the case of any election for party position or nomination
 for public office an amount equivalent to the number of enrolled  voters
 in  the  candidate's  party  in the district in which he is a candidate,
 excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.25 and in the  case
 of  any election to public office, an amount equivalent to the number of
 registered voters in the district, excluding voters in inactive  status,
 multiplied by $.25; or twelve hundred fifty dollars, whichever is great-
 er, or in the case of a nomination or election of a state senator, twen-
 ty  thousand  dollars,  whichever  is greater, or in the case of a nomi-
 nation or election of a member of  the  assembly  twelve  thousand  five
 hundred  dollars,  whichever  is greater, but in no event shall any such
 maximum exceed one hundred thousand dollars].
   c. In any election for a public office to be voted on by the voters of
 the entire state, or for nomination to any such office,  no  contributor
 may  make  a  contribution  to  any  candidate or political committee in
 connection with a candidate who is  not  a  participating  candidate  as
 defined in subdivision fourteen of section 14-200-a of this article, and
 no  such  candidate  or  political committee may accept any contribution
 from any contributor, which is in  the  aggregate  amount  greater  than
 eighteen thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general
 election  in  an  election  cycle[;  provided  however, that the maximum
 amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the  aggregate,  from
 any  candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the
 spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case  of  any  nomi-
 nation  to  public  office  an  amount  equivalent to the product of the

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 number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, exclud-
 ing voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the  case  of
 any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the product of
 the  number of registered voters in the state, excluding voters in inac-
 tive status, multiplied by $.025].
   d. In any nomination or election of a candidate who is not  a  partic-
 ipating  candidate  for  state  senator,  ten  thousand dollars, divided
 equally among the primary and general election in an election cycle;  in
 the  case of an election or nomination for a member of the assembly, six
 thousand dollars, divided equally among the primary and general election
 in an election cycle.
   e.(1) At the beginning of each fourth  calendar  year,  commencing  in
 nineteen  hundred  ninety-five,  the  state  board  shall  determine the
 percentage of the difference between the most recent  available  monthly
 consumer  price  index  for  all urban consumers published by the United
 States  bureau  of  labor  statistics  and  such  consumer  price  index
 published  for  the same month four years previously. The amount of each
 contribution limit fixed in this subdivision shall be  adjusted  by  the
 amount  of such percentage difference to the closest one hundred dollars
 by the state board which, not later than the first day  of  February  in
 each  such  year, shall issue a regulation publishing the amount of each
 such contribution limit. Each contribution limit as so adjusted shall be
 the contribution limit in effect for any election held before  the  next
 such adjustment.
   (2)  Provided,  however,  that  such  adjustments  shall not occur for
 candidates seeking statewide office, or the position of state senator or
 member of the assembly, whether such candidate does or does not  partic-
 ipate in the public finance program established pursuant to title two of
 this article.
   f.  Notwithstanding  any  other  contribution  limit  in this section,
 participating candidates as defined in subdivision fourteen  of  section
 14-200-a  of  this article may contribute, out of their own money, three
 times the applicable contribution limit to their own authorized  commit-
 tee.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as section 3 of part ZZZ of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, takes
 effect.