Modifying certain election campaign finance provisions; clarifying the definitions of contribution, independent expenditure and ballot question; authorizing the state campaign finance and public disclosure board to issue advisory opinions on fair campaign practices and removing a certain opinion request data protection provision; extending certain late filing or reporting deadlines and increasing certain late filing fees, eliminating the personal service option for late filing notices of the board and second notice requirements; requiring the board to notify principals of overdue filing reports and increasing the fee; specifying a financial records retention requirement for lobbyists and principals; clarifying the prohibition on contributions from lobbyists, political committees or political funds during legislative session, extending the prohibition duration for candidates for governor or lieutenant governor and clarifying the imposition of civil penalties for violation; exempting candidates for federal office from the prohibition; modifying certain contribution transfer deposit requirements; authorizing candidates to rely on the presence or absence of registration numbers on contribution checks in determining the source of the contribution and imposing the civil penalty on the contributor rather than on the candidate for failure to comply with registration number requirements; requiring return of contributions over a certain amount not disclosing occupation; providing for the consideration of contributions from a joint account as joint contributions under certain conditions; modifying the deadline for filing campaign expenditure reports before primary elections, facilitating the reporting of last minute independent expenditures for special elections; clarifying the requirement to disclose independent expenditures made in support of a candidate; expanding certain preelection report requirements and facilitating the reporting of last minute contributions by eliminating the certified mail requirement and authorizing facsimile or electronic transmission; modifying certain independent expenditure notice requirements, eliminating the affidavit requirement; authorizing the payment of late campaign report filing fees from political committee or fund assets; authorizing candidates to petition the district court for immediate equitable relief against opponents failing to file timely reports; requiring board notice of and imposing late penalties for failure to file corrected reports; modifying the effect of opponent conduct for candidates with opponents not agreeing to be bound by expenditure limits for public subsidy receipt purposes, providing for candidate choice to be released from the limits; prohibiting independent expenditures by principal campaign committees to other candidates; eliminating the base year for maximum expenditure limits inflation adjustment purposes; increasing the limit on aggregate contributions; modifying multicandidate expenditures; expanding the authority of the board to require return of public subsidies under certain conditions; extending the civil fine for principal campaign committee acceptance of contributions in excess of the limits to the making of excess contributions; modifying the distribution of public subsidies, requiring the board to withhold payment under certain conditions, authorizing distribution checks to include financial institutions named by the candidate as additional payees; modifying the public subsidy match requirement for legislative special election candidates; accelerating the date for candidate submission of public subsidy agreements to the board; providing for the filing of spending limit agreements by candidates filling vacancies in nominations occurring after the agreement filing deadline; requiring principal campaign committees or party units to return to the board or destroy nonissued official public subsidy receipt forms; expanding certain remedy provisions and imposing civil penalties for certain violations; modifying the definition of major political party defining political party unit for general election purposes; reducing the dollar threshold for campaign financial reporting requirements purposes and authorizing aggregate contributions from political party units; including organizations under the false claim of support prohibition; removing party organizations within municipalities and precincts from the definition of major or minor party for income tax political contribution refund purposes; repealing a certain economic interest statement notice requirement of the board and a certain independent expenditures limit increase provision (rla)