E Modifying certain election campaign finance and public disclosure provisions; clarifying the definition of public official relating to certain persons authorized to adopt, amend or repeal rules; eliminating the criminal penalty and imposing a civil penalty for members of the board of campaign finance and public disclosure disclosing certain confidential information and eliminating the requirements for the board to report public findings of probable cause relating to complaints to the appropriate law enforcement authorities; imposing a civil penalty for false statements in campaign reports and for failure to report material changes or corrections; requiring the board to notify persons failing to comply with the requirement and authorizing board imposition of late filing fees for failure to comply after notice and imposition of a civil penalty for failure to comply after a second notice; modifying a certain provision regulating penalties for failure to comply with lobbyist registration requirements, eliminating the criminal penalty and subjecting violators to a civil penalty; expanding certain lobbyist reporting requirements and modifying late filing penalties; modifying certain reporting requirements of principals; modifying the penalties for failure of public officials to disclose representation of clients in board actions, for late filing of economic interest statements and for violation of certain political committee or fund or party unit organization, registration, recordkeeping, reporting, contribution or expenditure requirements or restrictions, eliminating certain criminal penalties and providing for the imposition of civil penalties, prohibiting the lending of money for noncampaign purposes; designating the persons responsible for filing campaign reports for principal campaign or political committees, political funds or party units without a treasurer; authorizing candidates with opponents failing to timely file certain reports to petition the district court for immediate equitable relief to enforce filing requirements; prohibiting independent expenditures by principal campaign committees; modifying the provision providing for the effect on candidates under spending limit agreements of the conduct of opponents without the agreements, defining opponents for primary election purposes as candidates appearing on the ballot of the same party; modifying the dollar amount rounding requirements in calculating inflationary increases in spending limits; prohibiting political committee or fund contributions prohibited from acceptance by candidates and aggregate contributions in excess of the limits, penalty; subjecting contributions from dissolving principal campaign committees to certain limits imposed on political parties, exception, written statement requirement relating to intent to dissolve and terminate registration, authorizing board imposition of a civil penalty for failure to dissolve, requiring contributions from terminating principal campaign committees not accepted by another principal campaign committee to be forwarded to the board for deposit in the general account of the state elections campaign fund; modifying certain penalties for unregistered association statement violations; expanding the prohibition on contributions or solicitations during regular legislative sessions, increasing the penalty for violation and clarifying the exception from the prohibition for legislative special elections; authorizing the imposition of a civil penalty for circumvention; modifying and clarifying a certain provision providing for designation of income tax payments after the primary election, eliminating a certain agreement requirement; expanding certain spending limit agreement requirements; modifying the affidavit of contributions filing requirement and the requirement for chief administrative officers of public pension plans to transmit copies of economic interest statements filed by governing board members and officers to the campaign finance and public disclosure board; providing a transitional provision for candidates signing and filing spending limit agreements for a certain election cycle, providing for the signing of a new spending limit agreement at a later date (mk, ja)