Delaware House Bill 291

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)
Status: Introduced on January 17 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-15 - Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [HTML]

This Act requires that a candidates political committees contribution and expense report, provided to the Department of Elections, include the primary employer and job title of each person contributing to the committee. This Act also requires the Department of Elections to provide a telephone number and online form for reporting alleged campaign financing violations. The informant must provide their name and contact information to the Department. The information provided to the Department is not to be considered a public record under FOIA. This Act also allows reporting parties who unintentionally receive a prohibited contribution or make a prohibited expenditure to return or reimburse the contribution or pay the contribution to the State Treasurer. This Act also eliminates the ability of anyone who makes or accepts a prohibited campaign contribution from donating the money to a designated Title 30 charitable organization. The Act requires anyone who knowingly accepts an unlawful campaign contribution to pay the money to the State Treasurer for deposit to the General Fund.

An Act To Amend Title 15 Of The Delaware Code Relating To Campaign Contributions And Expenditures.

Rep. Eric Morrison [D]	Sen. Russ Huxtable [D]	Sen. Eric Buckson [R]	Sen. Kyle Gay [D]
Sen. Stephanie Hansen [D]	Sen. Sarah McBride [D]	Sen. Charles Paradee [D]	Rep. Paul Baumbach [D]
Rep. Jeff Hilovsky [R]	Rep. Edward Osienski [D]	Rep. Michael Smith [R]	Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-05-15		Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 5 On Its Merits
2024-04-18		Amendment HA 2 to HB 291 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-02-29		Amendment HA 1 to HB 291 - Introduced and Placed With Bill
2024-01-17		Introduced and Assigned to Administration Committee in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=140859
Text	https://legis.delaware.gov/json/BillDetail/GenerateHtmlDocument?legislationId=140859&legislationTypeId=1&docTypeId=2&legislationName=HB291