AB 2594, as introduced, Gordon. Political Reform Act of 1974: committees.
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 defines “committee” to include a person or combination of persons who receives contributions, makes independent expenditures, or makes contributions to or at the behest of candidates or committees, as specified.
This bill would revise the definition of “committee” to include specific names for each type of committee.
The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2⁄3 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements.
This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.
Vote: 2⁄3. 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:
“Committee” means any person or combination of
4persons who directly or indirectly does any of the following:
5(a) Receives contributions totaling two thousand dollars ($2,000)
6or more in a calendarbegin delete year.end deletebegin insert year (end insertbegin insert“Recipient Committee”).end insert
7(b) Makes independent expenditures totaling one thousand
8dollars ($1,000) or more in a calendarbegin delete year;end deletebegin insert
year (“end insertbegin insertIndependent
9Expenditure Committee”);end insert or
10(c) Makes contributions totaling ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
11or more in a calendar year to or at the behest of candidates or
12begin deletecommittees.end deletebegin insert committees (“end insertbegin insertMajor Donor Committee”).end insert
13A person or combination of persons that becomes a committee
14shall retain its status as a committee until such time as that status
15is terminated pursuant to Section 84214.
The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers
17the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the
18meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government
19Code.
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