E "Fair and Clean Elections Act"; authorizing imposition by the + state campaign finance and public disclosure board of civil penalties for certain +election law violations by candidates, specifying certain civil penalty limits and+ certain duties of the district court; prohibiting board publication of home +addresses or telephone numbers from reports or statements on the web site; +defining or recodifying the definitions of certain terms; regulating the +organization of political and principal campaign committees and party units, +requiring candidate formation of a single principal campaign committee for each+ office sought for contributions and public subsidies acceptance purposes; +requiring and providing for political funds under certain conditions, +prohibiting commingling and requiring a treasurer; regulating conduit funds; +specifying certain accounting requirements of treasurers and requiring and +providing for treasurers registration of committees or funds with the board; +placing certain restrictions on the acceptance and retention of contributions, +specifying certain deposit requirements and restrictions and certain reporting requirements; requiring registration numbers on contribution checks; prohibiting the earmarking of contributions, imposing criminal and +civil penalties for violation; regulating expenditures, specifying certain restrictions, providing for petty cash, requiring the disclosure of +independent expenditures; providing for the rendering of bills, charges or +claims; providing for campaign contribution and expenditure reports, +specifying certain time period, electronic filing, content and disclosure requirements; +providing for the treatment of independent expenditures, requiring and +providing for the filing of a notice of intent with the board; requiring the board to +exempt certain persons from disclosure requirements under certain +conditions, procedure; authorizing the board to impose a late filing fee for +failure to file, specifying certain board notice requirements; requiring and +providing for third party reimbursement and solicitor reports, authorizing petition+ to the district court for immediate equitable relief to enforce certain +filing requirement; specifying certain contribution limits for candidates +for constitutional office and the legislature, exempting certain +deliveries from bundling limits; prohibiting the acceptance of loans in excess of the contribution limits; regulating contributions to and from other +candidates and to principal campaign or political committees, funds or parties, +restricting transfers between party units; prohibiting contributions and +solicitations during regular legislative sessions, imposing a civil penalty for +violation and exempting legislative special election candidates from the +prohibition; imposing criminal and civil penalties for circumvention through +redirection; providing for political contribution refunds to income taxpayers, +specifying certain duties of the commissioner of revenue and providing a +standing appropriation to the commissioner for the refunds; imposing certain +voluntary spending limits on candidates for constitutional office and the +legislature for public subsidies receipt purposes, providing for release from +expenditure limits under certain opponent conditions; regulating multicandidate +political party expenditures; requiring and providing for the signing and +filing of spending limit agreements with the board for public subsidies receipt+ purposes, specifying certain qualifying contribution and affidavit +requirements; establishing a state elections campaign fund to be funded from the +state elections campaign checkoff and from court imposed surcharges, +limiting the amount of expenditures from the fund by the board; providing for the +payment of public subsidies by the board from the state elections campaign fund, specifying the public subsidy base and providing for inflation +adjustments; requiring the withholding of payments for failure to file campaign +finance reports and requiring the return of the subsidies under certain +conditions; authorizing certain carryforwards; imposing a civil penalty for +exceeding contribution or expenditure limits, providing for conciliation +agreements and civil actions; requiring and providing for the dissolution of +inactive committees and funds, specifying certain conditions for termination +and providing for the transfer of debts; providing for free broadcast or +audio clip time for political candidates participating in the public subsidy +program by public television and radio stations; exempting certain candidates +from the affidavit of candidacy filing fee; requiring the secretary of state +to publish a voters guide before the state primary and the state general +election, requiring the voters guide to include certain general and political +party, elected office, candidate and constitutional information, requiring +the cost of the guide to be paid from the state elections campaign fund; +requiring designation by the board as a participating candidate in the public +subsidy program for certain campaign materials or communications claims +purposes; making conforming amendments to certain statutory provisions; +providing transition provisions relating to the election cycle, contribution +and expenditure limits and carryforwards; repealing certain existing +provisions regulating the conduct of candidates for statewide office; specifying+ certain renumbering and notation instructions to the revisor of statutes(ra, ja)