New York A 11518: Relates to a limitation on contributions or expenditures

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A11518 Summary:

BILL NOA11518 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORRules (Lasher)

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Add Art 14 Title 3 §§14-300 - 14-305, El L

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Limits political contributions and expenditures; limits corporate contributions to independent expenditure committees.

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BILL NOA11518 

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05/28/2026referred to election law

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There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA11518 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11518

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 28, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lasher) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Election Law

 AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to campaign contribution
 and expenditure limitations

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Article 14 of the election law is amended by adding a new
 2 title 3 to read as follows:
 3 TITLE III
 4 CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS
 5 Section 14-300. Legislative findings and intent.
 6 14-301. Definitions.
 7 14-302. Aggregate contribution and expenditure limits.
 8 14-303. Contribution and expenditure limits from political
 9 committees.
 10 14-304. Corporate contribution limits to independent expenditure
 11 committees.
 12 14-305. Severability.
 13 § 14-300. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature finds that
 14 the Supreme Court's decisions in Citizens United v. FEC, 558 US. 310
 15 (2010), McCutcheon v FEC, 572 U.S. 185 (2014), Buckley v. Valeo, 424
 16 U.S. 1 (1976), and other campaign finance cases are wrongly decided. The
 17 legislature finds that the U.S. Constitution embodies the principle of
 18 democracy, the idea that all citizens are entitled to participate in
 19 self-government as political equals and that, with Citizens United and
 20 the other cases, the Court contravened this fundamental constitutional
 21 guarantee. The legislature finds that Citizens United and the other
 22 cases empower wealthy special interests to monopolize political
 23 discourse at the expense of the public; unconstitutionally disable the
 24 legislature from taking common-sense steps to reduce the appearance and
 25 reality of corruption, which includes undue access to and influence over
 26 government officials; and give rise to a distrust in government and
 27 citizen apathy that undermines the democratic operation of the political
 28 process.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15124-03-6

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 1 The legislature amends this article creating a new title to this arti-
 2 cle to enable the public at large to participate in the political proc-
 3 ess by reducing the undemocratic influence of special interests; to
 4 eliminate the appearance and reality of political corruption that inevi-
 5 tably arises when unlimited money is allowed to influence political
 6 outcomes; to restore public faith and participation in democracy; and to
 7 vindicate the U.S. Constitution's fundamental principle of democracy,
 8 which has been so callously disregarded by the Supreme Court.
 9 Therefore, the legislature declares that these amendments further the
 10 important and valid government interests of ensuring the constitu-
 11 tionally guaranteed political equality of all citizens, reducing the
 12 appearance and reality of political corruption, encouraging broad based
 13 public participation in democracy, and encouraging qualified candidates
 14 to run for office, while reducing candidates' and officeholders'
 15 fundraising burdens.
 16 § 14-301. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following
 17 terms shall have the following meanings:
 18 1. "Contribution" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined
 19 in subdivision nine of section 14-100 of this article.
 20 2. "Independent expenditure" shall have the same meaning as such term
 21 is defined in subdivision one of section 14-107 of this article.
 22 3. "Independent expenditure committee" shall have the same meaning as
 23 such term is defined in subdivision fifteen of