AB 1431, as amended, Gonzalez. Campaign contributions: school district and community college district administrators.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 establishes certain limits on the amount of contributions that a person or group can make to a candidate for elective state office, or to a committee.
This bill would prohibit an administrator of a school district or community college district, as defined, from knowingly soliciting, accepting, or receiving a contribution for the campaign of an elected official of the district employing the administrator, or any candidate for an office of the school district or community college district employing the administrator. The bill would clarify that this prohibition does not apply to an administrator who is soliciting, accepting, or receiving a contribution for his or her own campaign for an office of a school district or community college district.begin insert The bill would also prohibit an elected official of a school district or community college district, or a candidate for an office of a school district or community college district, from requesting an administrator of the school district or community college district to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution for the campaign of that elected official or candidate.end insert
Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal penalties. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.
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: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 85705 is added to the Government Code,
2to read:
(a) As used in this section:
4(1) “Administrator of a community college district” includes
5the following:
6(A) Thebegin delete Superintendent, Chancellor, or Presidentend deletebegin insert superintendent,
7chancellor, or presidentend insert of a community college district.
8(B) A district level community college district official who
9reports directly to thebegin delete Superintendent, Chancellor, or Presidentend delete
10begin insert
superintendent, chancellor, or presidentend insert of a community college
11district.
12(2) “Administrator of a school district” includes the following:
P3 1(A) Thebegin delete Superintendentend deletebegin insert superintendentend insert of a school district.
2(B) A district level school district official who reports directly
3to thebegin delete Superintendent.end deletebegin insert superintendent.end insert
4(b) An administrator of a school district or community college
5district shall not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive a contribution
6for the campaign of an elected official of the school district or
7community college district employing the administrator, or any
8candidate for an office of the school district or community college
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district employing the administrator.
10(c) An elected official of a school district or community college
11district, or a candidate for an office of a school district or
12community college district, shall not request an administrator of
13the school district or community college district to solicit, accept,
14or receive a contribution for the campaign of that elected official
15or candidate.
16(c)
end delete
17begin insert(d)end insert This section does not prohibit an administrator of a school
18district or
community college district from soliciting, accepting,
19or receiving a contribution for his or her own campaign for an
20office of the school district or community college district.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
22Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
23the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
24district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
25infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
26for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of
27the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within
28the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
29Constitution.
The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers
31the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the
32meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government
33Code.
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