BILL NUMBER: AB 2523	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act relating to local campaign contributions.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2523, as introduced, Mullin. Campaign contributions: local
elections.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 imposes limitations on
contributions to candidates for elective state office, statewide
elective office, and office of the Governor, as specified. The act
specifies that nothing in it prevents the Legislature or any other
state or local agency from imposing additional requirements on a
person if the requirements do not prevent the person from complying
with the act, and that nothing in it nullifies contribution
limitations or prohibitions by any local jurisdiction that apply to
elections for local elective office, as specified. The act requires a
local government agency that has enacted, enacts, amends, or repeals
an ordinance or other provision of law affecting campaign
contributions to file a copy of the action with the Fair Political
Practices Commission.
   Existing law authorizes a county, city, or district to limit
campaign contributions in local elections.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would impose limitations on campaign contribution
for local elections.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would impose limitations on campaign contributions
for local elections.