Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF1498

Relating to the financing of election campaigns; increasing spending limits for
constitutional officers and the additional allowable expenditures by and
contributions to winning candidates in contested primaries; modifying and
clarifying the provision providing for the release from spending limits of
candidates agreeing to be bound by the limits with opponents not agreeing,
providing for a notice of choice to the state campaign finance and public
disclosure board based on the conduct of an opponent in the state primary
election; modifying the calculation of expenditure limit inflation adjustments;
increasing the penalty for violating spending limits; providing for automatic
designation of income tax payments to the state elections campaign fund and
direction to the general account, authorizing taxpayer payment objection or
direction to a political party account; modifying the distribution of the
general and party accounts to candidates for constitutional office and providing
an open appropriation from the general fund to the general account of the state
elections campaign fund to cover the distributions; modifying the ineligibility
of unopposed constitutional office candidates for a public subsidy; modifying
certain public subsidy agreement and affidavit filing requirements and
increasing the match requirements for constitutional officers (rla)