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SF 90 Senate Long Description

Providing for election campaign finance reform; stating legislative findings relating to the use of private money to finance campaigns and the intent of the provisions to provide for clean money campaigns funded without special interest money; defining or redefining certain terms under the ethics in government act and under certain general elections provisions; prohibiting the state campaign finance and public disclosure board from publishing home addresses or telephone numbers on the web site; expanding political campaign committee registration content requirements; requiring electronic filing of certain campaign reports and board publication of campaign reports on the web site within a certain number of days of the report due date; expanding and modifying certain independent expenditure report filing and notice requirements; requiring excess spending reports by candidates not signing spending limit agreements; clarifying the application of spending limits and increasing spending limits for candidates for constitutional office and the legislature; modifying certain requirements for candidates choosing not to be bound by expenditure limits and providing for the release of candidates from expenditure limits under certain conditions; limiting independent expenditures by principal campaign committees and political parties and imposing contribution and spending limits on political party caucuses as a condition of candidate or party caucus receipt of a public subsidy; limiting political party multicandidate expenditures; reducing certain contribution and spending limits; imposing civil fines for exceeding certain contribution or expenditure limits; modifying the special election subsidy for candidates for legislative office; modifying certain spending limit agreement requirements of candidates and imposing agreement requirements on political parties and party caucuses as a condition of receiving a public subsidy; requiring principal campaign committees or party units to return to the board or destroy nonissued official refund receipt forms and imposing criminal penalties for unlawful issuance of the forms; 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; requiring candidate participation in a certain number of public debates for public subsidy eligibility purposes; increasing the maximum political contribution refund; contribution and expenditure limits transitional provision; repealing the income tax election campaign checkoff (mk)