"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 the 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; 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 amendment 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; modifying a throwback rule for the corporate franchise tax in determining the apportionment sales factor for tangible personal property outside the state; 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
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