1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to campaign finance; expanding a limitation on certain contributions during 
1.3 	a session of the legislature;amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.273, 
1.4 	subdivision 1; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.273, subdivisions 
1.5 	2, 3.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.273, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
1.8 		Subdivision 1.Contributions during legislative session. (a) A candidate for the 
1.9 	legislature or for constitutional office, the candidate's principal campaign committee, or a 
1.10 	political committee, a political fund, or a political party unit established by all or a part of 
1.11 	the party organization within a house of the legislature, must not solicit or accept a 
1.12 	contribution from a registered lobbyist, political committee, political fund, or an association 
1.13 	not registered with the board during a regular session of the legislature. the following times:
1.14 	(1) the period beginning the day after a state general election and ending at 11:59 p.m. 
1.15 	on the last day of the annual legislative session the following year;
1.16 	(2) the period beginning at 12:00 a.m. on the day an annual legislative session is scheduled 
1.17 	to convene in an even numbered year, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the day the annual session 
1.18 	adjourns sine die in that year; and
1.19 	(3) the period beginning at 12:00 a.m. on the day a special legislative session is scheduled 
1.20 	to convene, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the day the special session adjourns sine die.
1.21 	(b) A registered lobbyist, political committee, political fund, or an association not 
1.22 	registered with the board must not make a contribution to a candidate for the legislature or 
1.23 	for constitutional office, the candidate's principal campaign committee, or a political 
2.1 	committee or party unit established by all or a part of the party organization within a house 
2.2 	of the legislature during a regular session of the legislature that the recipient is prohibited 
2.3 	from accepting under paragraph (a).

2.4 	Sec. 2. REPEALER.
 2.5 	Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 10A.273, subdivisions 2 and 3, are repealed.

APPENDIX 

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 19-2913 

10A.273 CONTRIBUTIONS AND SOLICITATIONS DURING LEGISLATIVE SESSION.Subd. 2.Party unit solicitations. 
A political party unit must not solicit or receive at an event hosted by a candidate for the legislature or by a candidate for constitutional office a contribution from a lobbyist, political committee, political fund, or party unit during a regular session of the legislature. 

Subd. 3.Definition. 
For purposes of this section, a "regular session" starts at 12:00 a.m., on the first day of each annual session and ends at 11:59 p.m. on the last day of each annual session. For purposes of this section, regular session does not include a special session or the interim between the two annual sessions of a biennium.