Requires the fair campaign code to require campaign literature and other mass media identify the person, political party or committee authorizing such material.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A4259
SPONSOR: Gunther
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the election law, in relation to media identification
requirements in the fair campaign code
 
PURPOSE:
To necessitate the fair campaign code to require campaign literature and
other mass media to identify the person, political party or committee
authorizing such media.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Amends Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-106 of the election law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Requiring that all campaign literature, media advertisements or broad-
casts, public speeches, press releases and other writing shall identify
the person, political party or committee authorizing such material will
promote a more transparent election process.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: A4133 referred to Election Law/S851 referred to Elections
2019-20: S.2512/A.6060A Elections Committee
2017-18: S.4171/A.850 Gunther Elections Comm
2015-16: S.2558/A.1029 Gunther - Elections Comm
2013-14: S.3814/A.1102 Gunther - Elections Comm
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
One hundred eightieth day after becoming law with provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4259
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ZEBROWSKI, STECK -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Election Law
AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to media identification
requirements in the fair campaign code
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3-106 of the election law, as
2 amended by chapter 8 of the laws of 1978 and as redesignated by chapter
3 9 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. In addition to the powers and duties elsewhere enumerated in this
5 article, the state board of elections, after public hearings, shall
6 adopt a "fair campaign code" setting forth ethical standards of conduct
7 for persons, political parties and committees engaged in election
8 campaigns including, but not limited to, specific prohibitions against
9 practices of political espionage and other political practices involving
10 subversion of the political parties and process, and requiring that all
11 campaign literature, media advertisements or broadcasts, public speech-
12 es, press releases and other writing shall identify the person, poli-
13 tical party or committee authorizing such material.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
18 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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