Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF2868

Relating to elections; redefining expenditure and independent expenditure for
campaign financing purposes, providing for rebuttal of certain presumed
expenditures; prohibiting independent expenditures by political parties or party
units, releasing political parties agreeing not to make independent expenditures
as a condition of receiving a public subsidy from the prohibition while
remaining eligible for a public subsidy under certain conditions and specifying
certain notice requirements of political parties not agreeing to the
prohibition, subjecting political parties or party units violating the
prohibition to a civil fine; restricting state elections campaign fund party
account allocations to state committees of political parties signing and filing
spending limit agreements, requiring cancellation of the balance of the account
to the general fund; changing the deadline for candidate filing of spending
limit agreements and requiring and providing for filing of the agreements by
political parties, requiring state campaign finance and public disclosure board
notice to the commissioner of revenue, imposing a penalty on political party
chairs not signing an agreement and issuing income tax refund receipt forms,
prohibiting refunds for contributions to political parties not signing an
agreement, defining party unit for income tax refund purposes (ra)