Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0863

"Fair and Clean Elections Act"; authorizing imposition by the state campaign
finance and public disclosure board of civil penalties for certain election law
violations by candidates, specifying certain civil penalty limits and certain
duties of the district court; prohibiting board publication of home addresses or
telephone numbers from reports or statements on the web site; defining or
recodifying the definitions of certain terms; regulating the organization of
political and principal campaign committees and party units, requiring candidate
formation of a single principal campaign committee for each office sought for
contributions and public subsidies acceptance purposes; requiring and providing
for political funds under certain conditions, prohibiting commingling and
requiring a treasurer; regulating conduit funds; specifying certain accounting
requirements of treasurers and requiring and providing for treasurers
registration of committees or funds with the board; placing certain restrictions
on the acceptance and retention of contributions, specifying certain deposit
requirements and restrictions and certain reporting requirements; requiring
registration numbers on contribution checks; prohibiting the earmarking of
contributions, imposing criminal and civil penalties for violation; regulating
expenditures, specifying certain restrictions, providing for petty cash,
requiring the disclosure of independent expenditures; providing for the
rendering of bills, charges or claims; providing for campaign contribution and
expenditure reports, specifying certain time period, electronic filing, content
and disclosure requirements; providing for the treatment of independent
expenditures, requiring and providing for the filing of a notice of intent with
the board; requiring the board to exempt certain persons from disclosure
requirements under certain conditions, procedure; authorizing the board to
impose a late filing fee for failure to file, specifying certain board notice
requirements; requiring and providing for third party reimbursement and
solicitor reports, authorizing petition to the district court for immediate
equitable relief to enforce the filing requirement; specifying certain
contribution limits for candidates for constitutional office and the
legislature, exempting certain deliveries from bundling limits; prohibiting the
acceptance of loans in excess of the contribution limits; regulating
contributions to and from other candidates and to principal campaign or
political committees, funds or parties, restricting transfers between party
units; prohibiting contributions and solicitations during regular legislative
sessions, imposing a civil penalty for violation and exempting legislative
special election candidates from the prohibition; imposing criminal and civil
penalties for circumvention through redirection; providing for political
contribution refunds to income taxpayers, specifying certain duties of the
commissioner of revenue and providing a standing appropriation to the
commissioner for the refunds; imposing certain voluntary spending limits on
candidates for constitutional office and the legislature for public subsidies
receipt purposes, providing for release from expenditure limits under certain
opponent conditions; regulating multicandidate political party expenditures;
requiring and providing for the signing and filing of spending limit agreements
with the board for public subsidies receipt purposes, specifying certain
qualifying contribution and affidavit requirements; providing for the payment of
public subsidies by the board from the state elections campaign fund, specifying
the public subsidy base and providing for inflation adjustments; requiring the
withholding of payments for failure to file campaign finance reports and
requiring the return of the subsidies under certain conditions; authorizing
certain carryforwards; imposing a civil penalty for exceeding contribution or
expenditure limits, providing for conciliation agreements and civil actions;
requiring and providing for the dissolution of inactive committees and funds,
specifying certain conditions for termination and providing for the transfer of
debts; providing for free broadcast or audio clip time for political candidates
participating in the public subsidy program by public television and radio
stations; exempting certain candidates from the affidavit of candidacy filing
fee; requiring the secretary of state to publish a voters guide before the state
primary and the state general election, requiring the voters guide to include
certain general and political party, elected office, candidate and
constitutional amendment information, requiring the cost of the guide to be paid
from the state elections campaign fund; requiring designation by the board as a
participating candidate in the public subsidy program for certain campaign
materials or communications claims purposes; making conforming amendments to
certain statutory provisions; modifying a throwback rule for the corporate
franchise tax in determining the apportionment sales factor for tangible
personal property outside the state; providing transition provisions relating to
the election cycle, contribution and expenditure limits and carryforwards;
repealing certain existing provisions regulating the conduct of candidates for
statewide office; specifying certain renumbering and notation instructions to
the revisor of statutes
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