HF 3597

as introduced - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to elections; campaign finance; increasing 
  1.3             spending limits for certain candidates for 
  1.4             constitutional office and for all candidates in 
  1.5             certain circumstances; amending Minnesota Statutes 
  1.6             2000, section 10A.25, subdivision 2. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2000, section 10A.25, 
  1.9   subdivision 2, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 2.  [AMOUNTS.] (a) In a year in which an election is 
  1.11  held for an office sought by a candidate, the principal campaign 
  1.12  committee of the candidate must not make campaign expenditures 
  1.13  nor permit approved expenditures to be made on behalf of the 
  1.14  candidate that result in aggregate expenditures in excess of the 
  1.15  following: 
  1.16     (1) for governor and lieutenant governor, running together, 
  1.17  $1,926,127; 
  1.18     (2) for attorney general, $321,023 $963,063; 
  1.19     (3) for secretary of state and state auditor, separately, 
  1.20  $160,514 $963,063; 
  1.21     (4) for state senator, $50,630; 
  1.22     (5) for state representative, $25,320. 
  1.23     (b) Notwithstanding the limits in paragraph (a), if a 
  1.24  candidate has an opponent in the primary, the principal campaign 
  1.25  committee of the candidate may make campaign expenditures or 
  1.26  permit approved expenditures to be made on behalf of the 
  2.1   candidate that result in aggregate expenditures as follows: 
  2.2      (1) up to the amount specified in paragraph (a) for the 
  2.3   office the candidate seeks before the date of the primary; and 
  2.4      (2) up to an additional equal amount between the date of 
  2.5   the primary and the general election. 
  2.6      (c) In addition to the amount in paragraph (a), clause (1), 
  2.7   a candidate for endorsement for the office of lieutenant 
  2.8   governor at the convention of a political party may make 
  2.9   campaign expenditures and approved expenditures of five percent 
  2.10  of that amount to seek endorsement.  
  2.11     (c) (d)  If a special election cycle occurs during a 
  2.12  general election cycle, expenditures by or on behalf of a 
  2.13  candidate in the special election do not count as expenditures 
  2.14  by or on behalf of the candidate in the general election. 
  2.15     (d) (e) The expenditure limits in this subdivision for an 
  2.16  office are increased by ten percent for a candidate who is 
  2.17  running for that office for the first time and who has not run 
  2.18  previously for any other office whose territory now includes a 
  2.19  population that is more than one-third of the population in the 
  2.20  territory of the new office.