Deletes the "housekeeping" exemption which exempts party and constituted committees from reporting monies received and expenditures made for so-called "housekeeping" functions, which are those related to maintaining a permanent headquarters and staff and carrying on activities not specifically related to promoting the candidacies of specific candidates. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for submission to the state board of elections by the county boards of elections of the master ballot layout for all elections for statewide office, constitutional amendments and all questions provided by law to be submitted to a statewide vote. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires county boards of elections to provide the state board of elections with votes cast for all nominations. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Authorizes the board of elections to cause absentee ballots received by it by common carrier to be cast and counted provided such ballot was sent not later than the day before the election and received by such board of elections not later than seven days following the day of election. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires concurrent resolutions or laws containing statewide ballot proposals to include the form of submission on the ballot to a vote of the people, which form to be limited to a short title of the subject matter in plain language, an abstract concisely stating the purpose and effect of the proposal and amortization period and total debt service where appropriate and the complete text abstract and text to be available for public inspection at the polling place; makes related provisions for non-statewide ballot proposals, with form and abstract to be prepared by the office of the counsel of the county, city, town or village. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires any entity, other than a natural person, which in connection with any election makes contributions or expenditures to or on behalf of more than one candidate, political committee or constituted committee in excess of $2000 in the aggregate per annum, to file a campaign contribution statement with the board of elections. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires Russian-English language translators at polls in New York city in districts where more than 5 percent of the citizens of voting age of such political subdivision are members of the Russian language minority. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that the state board of elections may impose civil penalties after an adjudicatory proceeding for the purpose of determining whether a violation of the election law has occurred, and expands upon the enforcement power of the state board of elections; authorizes village clerk to enforce requirements of article 14 of the election law; clarifies that corporate contribution limit of $5,000 per calendar year does not apply to contributions for the purpose of promoting or defeating a ballot issue. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to providing that public schools within a city having a population of million or more are not open for regular classes with their students on any primary election day. / Sponsor: AVELLA Committee: ELECTIONS

Relates to voter pre-registration. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: ELECTIONS

Enacts the "clean campaign finance act"; directs the state board of elections to contract with a certified public accountancy firm to review and audit a randomly selected 3% of the candidates who run for the state legislature during each general election; such review and audit shall analyze each candidate's compliance with the provisions of the election law. / Sponsor: LIBOUS Committee: ELECTIONS

Amends deadlines to facilitate timely transmission of ballots to overseas military voters for primary and general elections. / Sponsor: O'MARA Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for the submission to the people the question of whether or not to convene a constitutional convention for the sole and limited purposes of choosing a lieutenant governor in the event of a vacancy in office and for achieving real property tax law reform. / Sponsor: LAVALLE Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for the itemization of campaign expenditures. / Sponsor: BRESLIN Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that whenever a contiguous property of a college or university contains three hundred or more registrants, the polling place designated for such election district shall be on such contiguous property or at a location approved by the college or university. / Sponsor: OPPENHEIMER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires town caucuses of a political party to be convened no earlier than four weeks before the last day to file a certificate of a party nomination made at such caucus; provides that with a certificate of nomination there also be filed a list of enrolled members of the party who participated in such caucus, the minutes of the caucus, and a statement of where the notice of the caucus was published or posted. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Makes the suppression of voters a civil violation. / Sponsor: STEWART-COUSINS Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that a person shall be disqualified from an election for which the filing of an annual statement of financial disclosure is required if such person fails to make a timely filing of such financial disclosure statement; provides a method for the filling of vacancies which occur as a result of such disqualifications. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Requires voter approval for the abolition or modification of term limits for certain elected offices; requires resolution of local legislative body followed by a voter referendum; sets procedures. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides for the re-enfranchisement of voters with felony convictions by repealing certain provisions in the election law. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: ELECTIONS