Bill Text: AZ SB1422 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Public officers; employees; promotional materials
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-05 - Referred to Senate ELEC Committee [SB1422 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2014-SB1422-Introduced.html
REFERENCE TITLE: public officers; employees; promotional materials |
State of Arizona Senate Fifty-first Legislature Second Regular Session 2014
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SB 1422 |
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Introduced by Senator Gallardo; Representative Quezada
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AN ACT
amending Title 38, chapter 3, article 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 38-504.01; relating to public officers and employees.
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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:
38-504.01. Campaign season mailers; public expense; prohibition
A. For a period of one year before an election, a public officer or employee may 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.