AB 2044, as introduced, Harper. Recipient committee: threshold qualifications.
Existing law defines a “committee” under the Political Reform Act of 1974 by reference to amounts of moneys received in contributions, made in independent expenditures, or made in contributions by a person or persons on an annual basis.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 82013 of the Government Code is
2amended to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert “Committee” means any person or combination
4of persons who directly or indirectly does any of the following:
5(a)
end delete
6begin insert(1)end insert Receives contributions totaling two thousand dollars ($2,000)
7or more in a calendar year.
8(b)
end delete
P2 1begin insert(2)end insert Makes independent expenditures totaling one thousand
2dollars ($1,000) or more in a calendarbegin delete year; orend deletebegin insert year.end insert
3(c)
end delete
4begin insert(3)end insert Makes contributions totaling ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
5or more in a calendar yearbegin delete toend deletebegin insert
to,end insert or at the behestbegin delete ofend deletebegin insert of,end insert
candidates
6or committees.
7A
end delete
8begin insert(b)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertAend insert person or combination of persons that becomes a
9committee shall retain its status as a committee until such time as
10that status is terminated pursuant to Section 84214.
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