SF 5 Senate Long Description
Relating to elections; clarifying the definitions of campaign +expenditure and independent expenditure and certain political committee or fund +registration form content requirements under campaign finance and public +disclosure requirements; prohibiting political committees, political funds, +principal campaign committees or party units making independent campaign +expenditures from terminating before the end of the election cycle; providing for +the formation of a nonpartisan nonprofit council to create a voluntary +code to discourage unfair negative attacks while encouraging debate on issues+ and candidates; requiring the campaign finance and public disclosure +board to convene a task force to establish a clean campaign council, +specifying task force membership representation options; authorizing the council to +establish a clean campaign advertising code, specifying certain content options +and providing for enforcement; authorizing the council to create a clean +campaign pledge and specifying certain agreement requirements of candidates +signing the pledge; clarifying the requirement to include committee names given +in campaign material disclaimers by committees registered with the board(mk)