Modifying certain election campaign finance and public disclosure requirements; reducing the time limit for first registrations of political or principal campaign committees, political funds or party units; regulating coordinated electioneering communication contributions and expenditures, defining electioneering communication and specifying certain reporting requirements; requiring reporting of independent expenditures in excess of certain amounts, time limits; requiring state campaign finance and public disclosure board notice to candidates signing spending limit agreements of release from expenditure limits due to receipt of reports of aggregate independent expenditures in excess of a certain limit; requiring reports to the board by individuals or associations making expenditures to encourage voter participation in the process; limiting aggregate independent expenditures by political party units signing spending limit agreements and participating in the political contribution refund program; limiting contributions to political party units and political committees and funds in excess of certain amounts, requiring return of excess amounts to the contributor or payments to the board for deposit in the state general fund, imposing a civil penalty for violation; requiring political party units to sign and file with the board agreements to comply with the independent expenditure limits as a condition of issuing political contribution refund receipts, duration; establishing a work group to study the feasibility of creating an online campaign finance reporting and public subsidy payment system and report to the legislature by a certain date, specifying certain work group membership requirements and requiring the board and the department of revenue to provide staff resources to the work group
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