Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1302

Relating to the financing of election campaigns; providing for +administration
of the provisions regulating corporate political contributions by the+ campaign
finance and public disclosure board, transferring certain report +filing duties
from the secretary of state to the board; expanding the exception to +the
prohibition on gifts by lobbyists for plaques recognizing individual +services
to framed certificates; eliminating the criminal penalty for certain
contribution violations; expanding the freedom to associate and +communicate
with members of associations to association shareholders, employees +and
families in support of or in opposition to the election of particular
candidates; defining political office for corporate political +contributions
purposes; further defining the penalty for corporate representatives +illegal
political contributions and reducing the maximum term of imprisonment+ for the
violation, modifying the penalty for the same violation by +corporations;
expanding the authority of corporations to display campaign materials+ on the
premises and authorizing certain candidate recruitment and training; +expanding
the authority of employees to solicit political contributions to +candidates and
the authority of nonprofit corporations to provide administrative +support to
political committees to corporations and eliminating the limit; +providing for
the costs liability of persons intentionally making false or bad +faith
complaints or reports of alleged violations; requiring employee +consent for
labor organizations to use dues or fees for political purposes, +notice
requirement, requiring reduction of dues or fees for employees not +agreeing;
specifying certain renumbering and cross reference correction +instructions to
the revisor of statutes (ra)