The NY PCF Weekly Report is filed by Committees participating in the Public Campaign Finance Program. Filers will have the option to submit weekly matching claims during the weekly matching claim periods, which are typically close to the election. The Weekly Claim schedule will be published on the calendar of scheduled payment dates and published on the PCFB website.
Important Notes:
- We recommend upon completion of generating your report, that you save it as a PDF for your records or to compare to other reports. This must be done at the time of generation, or you will not be able to save it as a PDF without generating it. You can also download the e-filing for your records as well.
- NY efiling does not support the concept of splits or memos for Monetary Contribution. Typically states want to see where the money originated/ended up, so we itemize receipt splits as cash-impact transactions, and do not itemize the whole/parent transaction.
- According to the PCFB Handbook, any contribution made by a partnership, LLP or sole proprietorship will not be matched with public funds. Therefore, those transactions are excluded from this report. They will be on the CF-01 or 24-Hour Report.
- The NY import is quite finicky and has strict data requirements. In addition, the NY site does not work on Chrome, use Firefox. Please see the helpfile about Common Validation Errors for additional information related to issues encountered when uploading files to the NY site.
- If you want to see the efile (.csv) before uploading to the NY site, it is imperative that after downloading, you open the file in Notepad or Notepad++, NOT Excel, Numbers, or similar (right click – open with Notepad or Notepad++).
- Please see the helpfile about Transaction Method Rules.
Report Parameters:
- Date Range: please use the appropriate dates as found on the PCFB Website.
- Current Election: Please select the current election as appropriate from the drop down. Make sure that the date associated with your election matches a NY election date.
- Previous General Election Date: Please supply the most recent General (November) Election Date. This is typically used for per-cycle aggregate calculations.
- Report Due Date: Please supply date the Weekly Report is due. This can be found on the PCFB Website.
- All Caps: This will generate your entire report in ALL CAPS
- Sort Order: Please select the sort order as appropriate.
Line-by-Line Description
Schedule A: Monetary Contributions from Individuals
- Transaction Types: Monetary Contribution, Enforceable Pledge Payment
- Entity Types: Individual
- Matching-funds fields for Schedule A: For each applicable transaction, review and complete the matching-funds fields as needed:
- Submitting for Matching Funds?
- Contributor In District?
- Contributor a Minor?
- Contributor a Vendor?
- Contributor a Lobbyist?
Only mark these fields when they apply to the transaction. It is important that these fields are checked as appropriate as they can drive how a transaction is reported.
Schedule I: Loans Received
- Transaction Types: Loan Received
- Entity Types: -all-
Schedule J: Loan Repayments
- Transaction Types: Loan Received Repayment
- Entity Types: -all-
Schedule K: Liabilities / Loans Forgiven
- Transaction Types: Loan Received Balance Reduction, Accrued Expense Balance Reduction (excluding transactions with tag Third Party Repayment.)
- Entity Types: -all-
Schedule M: Contributions Refunded
- Transaction Types: Refunded Contribution, Monetary Contribution with Is Reversal checked
- NOTE: For reversed contributions, these transactions will generate on a separate Schedule M PDF and will need to be manually entered into the NY site since they do not support uploads of reversed transactions.
- Entity Types: Individuals – the original contribution must have Submitting for Matching Funds? checked
Filing the report
After generating the report, download the e-file from ISP and log in to your state account to import the file.
