SB 976, as introduced, Vidak. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign statements.
Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures and imposing other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign committees. The act requires elected officers, candidates, committees, and slate mailer organizations to file various reports, including semiannual reports, preelection statements, and supplemental preelection statements.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the provision governing the filing of semiannual campaign statements.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 84200 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
(a) Except as provided in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3),
4elected officers, candidates, and committees pursuant to subdivision
5(a) of Section 82013 shall file semiannual statements each year no
P2 1later than July 31 for the period ending June 30, and no later than
2January 31 for the period ending December 31.
3(1) A candidate who, during the past sixbegin delete monthsend deletebegin insert months,end insert has
4filed a declaration pursuant to Section 84206 shall not be required
5to file a semiannual statement for that six-month period.
6(2) Elected officers whose salaries are less than two hundred
7dollars ($200) a month, judges,begin insert
andend insert judicialbegin delete candidates,end deletebegin insert candidatesend insert
8 and their controlled committees shall not file semiannual statements
9pursuant to this subdivision for any six-month period in which
10they have not made or received any contributions or made any
11expenditures.
12(3) A judge who is not listed on the ballot for reelection to, or
13recall from, any elective office during a calendar year shall not
14filebegin insert aend insert semiannualbegin delete statementsend deletebegin insert statementend insert pursuant to
this subdivision
15for any six-month period in that year if both of the following apply:
16(A) The judge has not received any contributions.
17(B) The only expenditures made by the judge during the calendar
18year are contributions from the judge’s personal funds to other
19candidates or committees totaling less than one thousand dollars
20($1,000).
21(b) All committees pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c) of Section
2282013 shall file campaign statements each year no later than July
2331 for the period ending June 30, and no later than January 31 for
24the period ending December 31, if they have made contributions
25or independent expenditures, including payments to a slate mailer
26organization, during the six-month period before the closing date
27of the statements.
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