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SF 2623 Senate Long Description

Relating to elections; defining certain additional terms and expanding the definitions of independent expenditure and lobbyist under the ethics in government act; prohibiting the state campaign finance and public disclosure board from publishing the home street addresses or telephone numbers of individuals in publishing reports or statements on the web site; expanding statement of organization form content requirements for principal campaign committees to the name of individuals authorized to accept contributions on behalf of the committee; requiring electronic filing of certain campaign reports and the board to publish campaign reports on the web site; requiring political committees or funds making independent expenditures relating to special elections to file reports on independent expenditures before the special primary and special election and a certain number of days after the special election cycle; expanding independent expenditure notice requirements, authorizing the filing of complaints for failure to file and imposing a penalty for filing false affidavits; requiring excess spending reports by treasurers of principal campaign committees of candidates not signing a spending limit agreement; applying spending limits to political parties and legislative party caucuses signing and filing agreements; increasing the spending limit for governor and lieutenant governor and modifying the limits for legislators, increasing limits by the sum of certain expenditures; providing for candidate choice to be bound by expenditure limits under certain conditions; prohibiting principal campaign committees from making independent expenditures on behalf of other principal campaign committees; limiting political party or party unit independent expenditures on behalf of endorsed candidates and imposing contribution and spending limits on political party caucuses as a condition of receiving a public subsidy; limiting multicandidate expenditures by political parties; imposing civil fines for exceeding certain expenditure and contribution limits; modifying the public subsidy for candidates for legislative special elections and certain spending limit agreement provisions; providing for the signing and filing of spending limit agreements by political parties and legislative party caucuses; increasing public subsidies for candidates agreeing to lower contribution limits; increasing spending limits and public subsidies to respond to independent expenditures and excess spending by nonparticipating candidates; providing for a public subsidies to political parties; requiring candidates to agree to participate in a certain number of debates as a condition of receiving a public subsidy; modifying the definition of major political party and defining party unit; increasing the maximum political contribution refund; repealing the income tax checkoff for election campaigns (ra)