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Release Notes


Independent Expenditure Search Candidate Support or Oppose

  • Added new searches: Independent Expenditure - Search Candidate Support or Oppose.
  • Added note to help with searches.

Who Filed

  • Added columns “Declined Candidate First Name”, “Declined Candidate Middle Name”, “Declined Candidate Last Name” and “Declined Candidate Suffix”.

Expenditures Search

  • Changed to broad search with options to filter search results to improve usability.
  • Increased processing speed.
  • Filter Search Results with Go button.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Added Claim of Exemption(CF-05) from filing disclosure reports for the indicated election cycle.

Details of Individuals of Independent Expenditure Committees

  • Created a search to list Details of Individuals of Independent Expenditure Committees.

Public Campaign Finance Candidate List

  • Created a search to list political committees that have registered and/or applied for the Public Campaign Finance Program. The report will provide an aggregate amount of public funds provided to the committee and the aggregate amount of qualified campaign expenditures as disclosed by the committee. The Public Funds Received field will remain blank until public funds are disbursed which can occur as early as thirty days before the primary election.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Added new filter item, Disclosure Reported By, to show candidate and/or committee who submitted disclosures for selected candidate, committee or filer ID.
  • Moved Disclosure Reports to the left of the screen next to the filter.
  • In Disclosure Reports, Added sub heading under Filing Year to group disclosures by election and disclosure period.
  • In Disclosure Reports, sorted disclosure reports by filing date showing latest to oldest.

List of Filers

  • Added note explaining "Candidate" button.

Contributions and Expenditure Search

  • Added note to help with searches.

System Wide

  • Updated Home page with buttons for easy access to the searches. User can access searches from the home page buttons or the top navigation menu.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Improved Final Summary button performance and added a spinner to let the user know the system is processing.

Who Filed

  • Added Candidate Website Provided and Candidate Website columns showing candidate website if submitted.

List of Filers

  • Redesigned List of Filers to show larger result set and options to filter search results.
  • Included a candidate button for committees to view candidates associated to authorized committees in a separate grid.
  • Updated CSV to include candidate information for authorized committees. This includes registration and termination dates.

Who Filed

  • Added Who Filed search under the Ballot Access menu item to search for candidates who have filed ballot access documents with the State Board of Elections for the current election year.

Independent Expenditure

  • Added new searches: Independent Expenditure - Weekly Notice of Liabilities Incurred and Independent Expenditure - 24 Hour/Weekly Expenditure - PIDA.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Included disclosure types "24 Hour Notice", "Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Contribution/Loan", "Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Expenditure" and "Independent Expenditure Weekly Liabilities Incurred" for filers who have disclosed those reports.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Included disclosure types "Campaign Material" and "Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Expenditure - PIDA" for filers who have disclosed those reports. Added election type to the name of the link under Disclosure Reports.

Contributions Search

  • Included Non-Campaign Housekeeping Receipts names in Contribution search.

Expenditure Search

  • Included Transfers Out names in Expenditure search.
  • Included credit card and reimbursement detail names in Expenditure search.
  • Included Non-Campaign Housekeeping Expenses names in Expenditure search.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search, 24 Hour Notification, Contributions by Recipient

  • Optimized performance.

System Wide

  • Optimized performance.
  • Improved Accessibility.

Candidate/Committee Disclosures Search

  • Improved search by Filer ID and search by Candidate.

24 Hour Notice

  • Updated the Year parameter to only include years of submitted 24 Hour Notices.

Independent Expenditure Reports

  • Updated the Year parameter to only include years of submitted Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Notice of Contributions and Loans.
  • Updated the Year parameter to only include years of submitted Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Notice of Expenditures and Payments.

System Wide

  • Improved transition from screen to screen to remove artifacts.
  • Updated the Year parameter to only include years of submitted disclosure reports for all Searches on the Public Reporting System Site.

Candidate Committee Search

  • Added a Summary Report Button to open a dialog box to display the Full Summary of the Disclosure Report selected.

List of Filers

  • Date From and Date To parameters are now hidden unless a user selects Date Range from the Registered Within dropdown.

Bulk Download

  • Optimized performance.

NYSBOE Website

  • Added a Public Reporting System link under Campaign Finance News on the home page (index.html).
  • Added Public Reporting System and Campaign Finance Home as sub menus under Campaign Finance in the left navigation bar.

Aggregated Contributions and Expenditures by Office and District

  • Added Filer Registration and Termination Dates to the grid.

Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Notice of PIDA

  • Work in Progress.

Aggregated Contributions and Expenditures by Office and District

  • Included Candidates/Committees with zero contributions and zero expenditures that meet the search criteria.
  • Included Authorized Single Candidate and Authorized Multi Candidate Committees with no Non-Expenditure.

Independent Expenditure 24 Hour/Weekly Notice of Paid Internet and Digital Ads (PIDA)

  • New Page Development in progress.

24 Hour Notice

  • Defaulted Report Year to current year.
  • Search by All, Filer ID, Candidate, Committee or Office.
    • Search by All will display All 24 Hour Notices submitted in the Current Report Year descending.
    • Search by Candidate will display 24 Hour Notices submitted by the Candidate or their Authorized Committee.
    • Search by Committee will display 24 Hour Notices submitted by the Committee.
    • Search by Office will display 24 Hour Notices submitted by the Candidate or Committee associated to the Office and District selected and optional date range.
  • Filter Search Results by Date Range with Go button.

Contributions Search

  • Split into two searches: "Contributions Search by Contributor", "Contributions Search by Recipient".
  • Increased processing speed.
  • Changed to broad search with options to filter search results to improve usability.

Contributions Search by Contributor

  • Search by name.
  • Filter Search Results with Go button.

Contributions Search by Recipient

  • Search by Candidate, Committee or Office.
  • Search by Candidate will display contributions given to the Candidate or their Authorized Committee.
  • Search by Committee will display contributions given to the Committee.
  • Search by Office will display contributions given to the Candidate or Committee associated to the Office and District selected and optional date range.
  • Filter Search Results with Go button.

Help Menu

  • Added Filer Data Reference and Campaign Disclosure Data Reference.

Candidate/Committee Search

  • Fixed reported issues with Candidate search.

List of Filers, Contributions, Expenditures

  • Fixed County and Municipality search.

Independent Expenditure - Contributions/Loans

  • Added search by "All" to search all Independent Expenditure - Contributions/Loans by date range.
  • Added enter functionality for Filer ID, Contributor and Contribution Recipient search by.
  • If user enters from the field then a new select dropdown will appear with a list of names.

Independent Expenditure - Expenditures/Payments

  • Added search by "All" to search all Independent Expenditure - Expenditures/Payments by date range.
  • Added enter functionality for Filer ID, Expender and Expense Recipient search by.
  • If user enters from the field then a new select dropdown will appear with a list of names.

Contributions Search

  • Defaulted Filer Type and Committee Type select lists to All and removed the required asterisk.
  • Select Date is now optional.
  • Address Fields in the CSV are their own fields.
  • Added the filer ID to the recipient name in the search result grid.

Expenditure Search

  • Defaulted Filer Type and Committee Type select lists to All and removed the required asterisk.
  • Select Date is now optional.
  • Address Fields in the CSV are their own fields.
  • Added enter functionality for Candidate, Committee and Recipient search by.
  • If user enters from the field then a new select dropdown will appear with a list of names.
  • Added the filer ID to the Disburser name in the search result grid.

Contributions Search

  • Search by Contributor: Implemented First and Last Name Search.
  • Removed address from Select Contributor search results to only display unique names.
  • Made Select Date optional.
  • Results for the Contributor name selected will display in the grid.
  • Filer ID was added to the Recipient Field.