Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF0649

Relating to elections; clarifying the definitions of campaign expenditure and
independent expenditure and certain political committee or fund registration
form content requirements under campaign finance and public disclosure
requirements; prohibiting political committees, political funds, principal
campaign committees or party units making independent campaign expenditures from
terminating before the end of the election cycle; providing for the formation of
a nonpartisan nonprofit council to create a voluntary code to discourage unfair
negative attacks while encouraging debate on issues and candidates; requiring
the campaign finance and public disclosure board to convene a task force to
establish a clean campaign council, specifying task force membership
representation options; authorizing the council to establish a clean campaign
advertising code, specifying certain content options and providing for
enforcement; authorizing the council to create a clean campaign pledge and
specifying certain agreement requirements of candidates signing the pledge;
clarifying the requirement to include committee names given in campaign material
disclaimers by committees registered with the board
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