HF 664

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to elections; changing certain campaign 
  1.3             finance provisions; amending Minnesota Statutes 1998, 
  1.4             sections 10A.065, subdivision 1; 10A.25, subdivision 
  1.5             2; and 10A.27, subdivision 10. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 10A.065, 
  1.8   subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.9      Subdivision 1.  [REGISTERED LOBBYIST CONTRIBUTIONS; 
  1.10  LEGISLATIVE SESSION.] A candidate for the legislature or for 
  1.11  constitutional office, a candidate's principal campaign 
  1.12  committee, any other political committee with the candidate's 
  1.13  name or title, any committee authorized by the candidate, or a 
  1.14  political committee established by all or a part of the party 
  1.15  organization within a house of the legislature, shall not 
  1.16  solicit or accept a contribution on behalf of a candidate's 
  1.17  principal campaign committee, any other political committee with 
  1.18  the candidate's name or title, any committee authorized by the 
  1.19  candidate, or a political committee established by all or a part 
  1.20  of the party organization within a house of the legislature, 
  1.21  from a registered lobbyist, political committee, or political 
  1.22  fund during a regular session of the legislature.  The lobbyist, 
  1.23  political committee, or political fund shall not make the 
  1.24  contribution.  However, the party organization within a house of 
  1.25  the legislature may receive a member's dues during a regular 
  2.1   session of the legislature, even if the dues are paid from the 
  2.2   assets of the member's principal campaign committee. 
  2.3      Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 10A.25, 
  2.4   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  2.5      Subd. 2.  [MAXIMUM EXPENDITURES.] (a) In a year in which an 
  2.6   election is held for an office sought by a candidate, no 
  2.7   expenditures shall be made by the principal campaign committee 
  2.8   of that candidate, nor any approved expenditures made on behalf 
  2.9   of that candidate which expenditures and approved expenditures 
  2.10  result in an aggregate amount in excess of the following: 
  2.11     (1) for governor and lieutenant governor, running together, 
  2.12  $1,626,691; 
  2.13     (2) for attorney general, $271,116 $353,200; 
  2.14     (3) for secretary of state, state treasurer, and state 
  2.15  auditor, separately, $135,559 $186,400; 
  2.16     (4) for state senator, $40,669; 
  2.17     (5) for state representative, $20,335. 
  2.18     (b) If a special election cycle occurs during a general 
  2.19  election cycle, expenditures by or on behalf of a candidate in 
  2.20  the special election do not count as expenditures by or on 
  2.21  behalf of the candidate in the general election. 
  2.22     (c) The expenditure limits in this subdivision for an 
  2.23  office are increased by ten percent for a candidate who is 
  2.24  running for that office for the first time and who has not run 
  2.25  previously for any other office whose territory now includes a 
  2.26  population that is more than one-third of the population in the 
  2.27  territory of the new office. 
  2.28     Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 10A.27, 
  2.29  subdivision 10, is amended to read: 
  2.30     Subd. 10.  [PROHIBITED CONTRIBUTIONS.] A candidate who 
  2.31  accepts a public subsidy may not contribute to the candidate's 
  2.32  own campaign more than ten times the candidate's election year 
  2.33  contribution limit under subdivision 1, except that a candidate 
  2.34  who loses the general election may contribute up to 20 times the 
  2.35  candidate's election year contribution limit.