Legislative Session number- 82

Bill Name: SF3384

E Modifying certain election campaign finance and public disclosure provisions;
clarifying the definition of public official relating to certain persons
authorized to adopt, amend or repeal rules; eliminating the criminal penalty and
imposing a civil penalty for members of the board of campaign finance and public
disclosure disclosing certain confidential information and eliminating the
requirements for the board to report public findings of probable cause relating
to complaints to the appropriate law enforcement authorities; imposing a civil
penalty for false statements in campaign reports and for failure to report
material changes or corrections; requiring the board to notify persons failing
to comply with the requirement and authorizing board imposition of late filing
fees for failure to comply after notice and imposition of a civil penalty for
failure to comply after a second notice; modifying a certain provision
regulating penalties for failure to comply with lobbyist registration
requirements, eliminating the criminal penalty and subjecting violators to a
civil penalty; expanding certain lobbyist reporting requirements and modifying
late filing penalties; modifying certain reporting requirements of principals;
modifying the penalties for failure of public officials to disclose
representation of clients in board actions, for late filing of economic interest
statements and for violation of certain political committee or fund or party
unit organization, registration, recordkeeping, reporting, contribution or
expenditure requirements or restrictions, eliminating certain criminal penalties
and providing for the imposition of civil penalties, prohibiting the lending of
money for noncampaign purposes; designating the persons responsible for filing
campaign reports for principal campaign or political committees, political funds
or party units without a treasurer; authorizing candidates with opponents
failing to timely file certain reports to petition the district court for
immediate equitable relief to enforce filing requirements; prohibiting
independent expenditures by principal campaign committees; modifying the
provision providing for the effect on candidates under spending limit agreements
of the conduct of opponents without the agreements, defining opponents for
primary election purposes as candidates appearing on the ballot of the same
party; modifying the dollar amount rounding requirements in calculating
inflationary increases in spending limits; prohibiting political committee or
fund contributions prohibited from acceptance by candidates and aggregate
contributions in excess of the limits, penalty; subjecting contributions from
dissolving principal campaign committees to certain limits imposed on political
parties, exception, written statement requirement relating to intent to dissolve
and terminate registration, authorizing board imposition of a civil penalty for
failure to dissolve, requiring contributions from terminating principal campaign
committees not accepted by another principal campaign committee to be forwarded
to the board for deposit in the general account of the state elections campaign
fund; modifying certain penalties for unregistered association statement
violations; expanding the prohibition on contributions or solicitations during
regular legislative sessions, increasing the penalty for violation and
clarifying the exception from the prohibition for legislative special elections;
authorizing the imposition of a civil penalty for circumvention; modifying and
clarifying a certain provision providing for designation of income tax payments
after the primary election, eliminating a certain agreement requirement;
expanding certain spending limit agreement requirements; modifying the affidavit
of contributions filing requirement and the requirement for chief administrative
officers of public pension plans to transmit copies of economic interest
statements filed by governing board members and officers to the campaign finance
and public disclosure board; providing a transitional provision for candidates
signing and filing spending limit agreements for a certain election cycle,
providing for the signing of a new spending limit agreement at a later date (mk,
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