E Relating to ethics in government; clarifying and simplifying certain provisions regulating lobbyist registration, conflicts of interest and campaign finance; clarifying or modifying certain definitions, eliminating the definitions of transfer of funds and office holder and defining political party unit; requiring the executive director of the campaign finance and public disclosure board to serve as the secretary of the board; specifying the filing date for scheduled filing dates falling on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday; clarifying and modifying certain lobbyist reporting requirements, eliminating certain solicitor reporting requirements; modifying certain notice requirements of the board; changing the word transfer to contribution in certain provisions regulating political funds; modifying certain political committee or fund organization statement content requirements; authorizing candidates, committees, funds or party units to refuse to accept contributions; modifying and clarifying certain campaign report filing date and content requirements; clarifying certain campaign spending limit provisions; eliminating the requirement for board publication of expenditure limits in nonelection years and a certain provision providing for increased limits on independent expenditures; eliminating the annual deadline and modifying the dollar amount rounding requirement under the provision providing for the calculation of spending limit inflation adjustments; modifying the date for board publication of expenditure limits in election years and requiring the revisor of statutes to code adjusted amounts; eliminating a certain limit on aggregate contributions; modifying the qualification of political parties for inclusion on income tax and property tax refund forms; clarifying public subsidy distribution requirements, increasing allocations from the general and party accounts of the state elections campaign fund for the offices of attorney general, secretary of state and state auditor and eliminating a certain board distribution reduction restriction and the ineligibility of unopposed candidates for a public subsidy; modifying certain requirements for receipt of special election subsidies and certain spending limit agreement, matching and public subsidy return requirements; defining minor political party for general elections purposes; specifying certain renumbering, cross reference and word change instructions to the revisor of statutes; repealing the political committee exception from the prohibition on contributions and solicitations during legislative session, the application of a certain provision regulating multicandidate political party expenditures, certain public subsidy return requirements, the requirement for legislative monitoring of the income tax checkoff, certain provisions imposing expenditure limits on congressional candidates and certain obsolete provisions (ra, ja)