BILL NUMBER: AB 2357	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Saldana

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 84400 of the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2357, as introduced, Saldana. Political Reform Act of 1974.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the regulation of
political campaign financing, including the reporting and disclosure
of campaign contributions and expenditures, and establishes the Fair
Political Practices Commission to enforce the provisions of the act.
Under the act, the Commission may not exempt any candidate or
committee from the reporting requirements of the act.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   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.  Section 84400 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   84400.  Notwithstanding any other provision of  the
 law, the  commission   Commission
 shall have no power to exempt any person, including any
candidate or committee, from any of the requirements imposed by the
provisions of this chapter.