Legislative Session number- 88

Bill Name: SF0661

5E Relating to campaign finance

ARTICLE 1 - POLICY CHANGES

Relating to
campaign finance and disclosure; defining and redefining certain terms;
modifying campaign finance and public disclosure board duties, expanding
investigative duties and enforcement of alleged violations, authorizing the
board to bring legal actions or negotiate settlements under certain conditions;
modifying filing requirements false statements and record keeping penalties,
specifying disposition of civil penalty fees; increasing the principal campaign
single committee candidate contribution aggregate and the association political
funds aggregate; expanding food and beverage exceptions; modifying associations
political fund commingling prohibitions, permitted disbursements, and first
registration requirements; establishing an initial registration with the board
structure for independent expenditure and ballot question political committees
and fund, filing and reporting requirements; modifying deposit requirements;
modifying certain campaign reporting requirements, specifying certain
contribution disclosure requirements; providing regulations for termination of
registration, voluntary inactive status political funds, administration
terminations of inactive committees and funds, and unpaid debt upon termination;
modifying certain spending and contribution limits amounts; modifying affidavit
of contributions requirements; modifying certain provisions relating to ethics
and election data; modifying the penalties for corporate political contributions
violations for individuals and corporations; specifying penalties for
individuals and corporations who knowingly violate corporate political
contribution laws; specifying certain complaints of unfair campaign practices
administrative remedy filing requirements; repealing certain provisions relating
to termination reports, dissolution of inactive committees and funds, and
spending limit in nonelection year

ARTICLE 2 - PUBLIC OFFICIAL

Expanding
the definition of public official under campaign finance and public
disclosure
law to include district, appeals, or supreme court justices and
county
commissioners; specifying that district court judges, appeals court judges and
Supreme Court justices are not required to comply with certain conflict of
interest and representation disclosure provisions included in the campaign
finance and public disclosure law; permitting the waiving of the requirement
that an official disclose the address of real property that constitutes the
secondary residence of the official


ARTICLE 3 - TECHNICAL CHANGES

Making
certain technical changes to the campaign finance and public
disclosure
law

ARTICLE 4 - CONFORMING CHANGES

Making certain conforming changes to
the campaign finance and public disclosure law
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