BILL NUMBER: SB 1349	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Hertzberg

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 84211.5 to the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1349, as introduced, Hertzberg. Political Reform Act of 1974:
campaign disclosure.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 generally requires elected
officials, candidates for elective office, and committees formed
primarily to support or oppose a candidate for public office or a
ballot measure, along with other entities, to file periodic campaign
statements. The act requires that these campaign statements contain
prescribed information related to campaign contributions and
expenditures of the filing entities.
   This bill would require the Secretary of State to develop a system
to identify filers of independent expenditure committee campaign
statements and major donor committee campaign statements that would
allow members of the public to search the Secretary of State's
database by filer to identify all expenditures or contributions made
by that filer.
   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: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 84211.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   84211.5.  The Secretary of State shall develop a system to
identify each filer of an independent expenditure committee campaign
statement or major donor committee campaign statement that allows the
public to search the Secretary of State's database by filer to
identify all expenditures or contributions made by that filer.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers
the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the meaning
of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government Code.