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SF 6 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 provisions +regulating the financing of election campaigns; prohibiting the state campaign +finance and public disclosure board from publishing home addresses or telephone +numbers on the web site; expanding principal 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 modifying the +spending limits for candidates for constitutional office and the legislature; +limiting independent expenditures by 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)