NY State Senate Bill 2023-S1503

Senate Bill S1503

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits candidates from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee

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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
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Delivered to Governor
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2023-S1503 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Elections
Law Section:: Election Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §14-112, El L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S5546
2011-2012: S1568
2013-2014: S2536
2015-2016: S2857
2017-2018: S4228
2019-2020: S3094
2021-2022: S3452

2023-S1503 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits candidates from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election.

2023-S1503 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S1503

SPONSOR: ADDABBO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the election law, in relation to prohibiting candidates
from authorizing more than one political committee for any one election

 
PURPOSE:

This bill is designed to increase the transparency of candidate
fundraising and expenditures by limiting to one the number of authorized
committees a candidate may have.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends Election Law section 14-112 subdivision 1 to require
that political committees supporting the election of a candidate must
file a sworn, verified statement by the committee treasurer and the
candidate stating that the candidate has authorized the committee to
support his or her election, or a sworn, verified statement by the
committee treasurer that the candidate has not authorized the committee

to support his election. It further amends subdivision 2 to prohibit a
candidate from authorizing more than one committee for any election, and
requires that if a candidate has more than one authorized committee on
December 1, 2012, within thirty days the candidate must disavow all but
one such committee in writing to the state board of elections.

Section 2: Provides that the Act takes effect sixty days after it
becomes a law.

 
EXISTING LAW:

Under the existing law, a candidate is not subject to any limit on the
number of committees he or she may have, and the treasurer of the
committee is only required to file a sworn, verified statement that the
candidate has authorized the political committee, or has not.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The current law encourages a candidate to have a multiplicity of commit-
tees and makes it easier to conceal the money raised and spent.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

S.3094 2019: - Referred to Senate Elections Committee.

S.3094 2020: - Referred to Senate Elections Committee.

S.3452 2021: - Referred to Senate Elections Committee.

S.3452 2022: - Referred to Senate Elections Committee.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect on the sixtieth day after becoming a law,
with provisions.

2023-S1503 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1503
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 prohibiting  candidates
   from  authorizing  more  than  one  political  committee  for  any one
   election

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 14-112 of the election law, as amended by section 8
 of  part  A  of  chapter  286 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   §  14-112.  [Political]  AUTHORIZED  COMMITTEE;  POLITICAL   committee
 authorization  statement.  1.  Any  political committee aiding or taking
 part in the election or nomination of any candidate, other than a  poli-
 tical  action  committee,  shall file, in the office in which the state-
 ments of such committee are to be filed pursuant to this article, either
 a sworn verified statement by the treasurer of such  committee  AND  THE
 CANDIDATE that [the] SUCH candidate has authorized the political commit-
 tee  to  aid  or  take  part  in his OR HER election or A SWORN VERIFIED
 STATEMENT BY THE TREASURER OF SUCH COMMITTEE that the candidate has  not
 authorized the committee to aid or take part in his OR HER election.
   2.  NO  CANDIDATE  MAY AUTHORIZE MORE THAN ONE POLITICAL COMMITTEE FOR
 ANY ONE ELECTION.  ANY CANDIDATE WHO, ON DECEMBER  FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND
 TWENTY-FOUR,  HAS  AUTHORIZED  MORE THAN ONE POLITICAL COMMITTEE FOR ANY
 ONE ELECTION SHALL, NOT LATER THAN THIRTY DAYS AFTER SAID DATE,  DISAVOW
 ALL  BUT  ONE  OF  SUCH  COMMITTEES,  IN  WRITING, TO THE STATE BOARD OF
 ELECTIONS. THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO THE AUTHORIZATION  OF  AN
 EXPLORATORY  COMMITTEE  BY AN ELECTED PUBLIC OFFICIAL. A MULTI-CANDIDATE
 COMMITTEE MAY NOT BE AN AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE.
   3. CAMPAIGN FUNDS  REMAINING  IN  ANY  DISAVOWED  COMMITTEE  SHALL  BE
 DISPOSED OF PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04231-01-3
 S. 1503                             2

 
   §  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 candidates and political committees of the applicable
 provisions of this act within thirty days  after  this  act  shall  have
 become a law.

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