Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF0006

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)