Assembly Actions -
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Mar 28, 2014 |
print number 237a |
Mar 28, 2014 |
amend and recommit to elections |
Jan 08, 2014 |
referred to elections |
Jan 09, 2013 |
referred to elections |
Senate Bill S237A
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2013-S237 - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Elections
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§3-100, 3-102 & 3-104, El L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S7538
2011-2012: S876
2013-S237 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S237 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to providing for a state board of elections enforcement unit and counsel SUMMARY AND DESCRIPTION OF PROVISIONS: The bill creates a campaign finance enforcement unit within the State Board of Elections and makes the office of campaign finance enforcement counsel a four-year term. It also makes the office of special counsel the other legal unit at the SB0E - a four-year term, and codifies the requirement that the deputy in each unit be a member of the opposite political party than the counsel. The bill changes the way that campaign finance enforcement matters are processed at the SBOE by requiring three of the four S80E commissioners to vote to stop an investigation by the enforcement counsel, rather than requiring, as current law does, three votes to begin an investigation. The bill mandates that all votes to stop an investigation, or to act on the recommendation of the enforcement counsel after an
2013-S237 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 237 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SQUADRON -- 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 providing for a state board of elections enforcement unit and counsel THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3-100 of the election law, as amended by chapter 220 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 3. The commissioners of the state board of elections shall have no other public employment. The commissioners shall receive an annual sala- ry of twenty-five thousand dollars, within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation. The board shall, for the purposes of sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law, be a "state agency", and such commissioners shall be "officers" of the state board of elections for the purposes of such sections. Within the amounts made available by appropriation therefor, the state board of elections shall appoint two co-executive directors, [counsel] AN ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, A DEPUTY ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, A SPECIAL COUNSEL, A DEPU- TY SPECIAL COUNSEL, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, A DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPERATIONS, A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPERATIONS, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPER- ATIONS, A DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION and such other staff members as are necessary in the exercise of its functions, and may fix their compensation. [Anytime after the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand five which amended this subdivision, the] THE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2013-S237A (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Elections
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§3-100, 3-102 & 3-104, El L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
-
2009-2010:
S7538
2011-2012: S876
2013-S237A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S237A TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the election law, in relation to providing for a state board of elections enforcement unit and counsel SUMMARY AND DESCRIPTION OF PROVISIONS: The bill creates a campaign finance enforcement unit within the State Board of Elections and makes the office of campaign finance enforcement counsel a four-year term. It also makes the office of special counsel the other legal unit at the SBOE - a four-year term, and codifies the requirement that the deputy in each unit be a member of the opposite political party than the counsel. The bill changes the way that campaign finance enforcement matters are processed at the SBOE by requiring three of the four S80E commissioners to vote to stop an investigation by the enforcement counsel, rather than requiring, as current law does, three votes to begin an investigation. The bill mandates that all votes to stop an investigation, or to act on the recommendation of the enforcement counsel after an investigation, occur in public. The bill codifies an enforcement unit within the State Board of Elections (SBOE) with a mandate that at least 35 percent of the SBOE's annual budget be dedicated to the unit to promote increased
2013-S237A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 237--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SQUADRON, ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered print- ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections -- recommitted to the Committee on Elections in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to providing for a state board of elections enforcement unit and counsel THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3-100 of the election law, as amended by chapter 220 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: 3. The commissioners of the state board of elections shall have no other public employment. The commissioners shall receive an annual sala- ry of twenty-five thousand dollars, within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation. The board shall, for the purposes of sections seventy-three and seventy-four of the public officers law, be a "state agency", and such commissioners shall be "officers" of the state board of elections for the purposes of such sections. Within the amounts made available by appropriation therefor, the state board of elections shall appoint two co-executive directors, [counsel] AN ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, A DEPUTY ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE ENFORCEMENT COUNSEL, A SPECIAL COUNSEL, A DEPU- TY SPECIAL COUNSEL, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE SPECIAL COUNSEL, A DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPERATIONS, A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPERATIONS, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE DIRECTOR OF ELECTION OPER- ATIONS, A DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, A DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION, WHO SHALL BE A MEMBER OF A DIFFERENT MAJOR POLITICAL PARTY THAN THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INFORMATION and such other staff members as EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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