Bill Text: AZ SB1184 | 2013 | Fifty-first Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced


Bill Title: Public officers; employees; promotional materials

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-28 - Referred to Senate ELEC Committee [SB1184 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2013-SB1184-Introduced.html

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: public officers; employees; promotional materials

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature

First Regular Session

2013

 

 

SB 1184

 

Introduced by

Senator Gallardo

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 38, chapter 3, article 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 38-504.01; relating to public officers and employees.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 



Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 38, chapter 3, article 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 38-504.01, to read:

START_STATUTE38-504.01.  Campaign season mailers; public expense; prohibition

A.  For a period of one year before an election, a public officer or employee shall not cause to be printed, mailed, broadcast, transmitted or otherwise conveyed to the public any promotional or informational material at public expense that features the face or voice of a person who is a candidate for any public office in this state at that election.

B.  A person is a candidate for public office if the person circulates a nomination petition to collect signatures, registers an exploratory committee as prescribed in title 16, chapter 6 or is the candidate named in a candidate campaign committee registration as prescribed in title 16, chapter 6.

C.  This section does not apply to otherwise lawful expenditures of citizens clean elections commission monies by a candidate. END_STATUTE

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