Bill Text: CA AB1431 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Campaign contributions: school district and community college district administrators.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Vetoed) 2014-09-30 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1431 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1431-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1431	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 8, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gonzalez
   (Principal coauthor: Senator Hueso)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Garcia and Quirk-Silva)

                        JANUARY 6, 2014

   An act to add Section 85705 to the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1431, as amended, Gonzalez. Campaign contributions: school
district and community college district administrators.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 establishes certain limits on the
amount of contributions that a person or group can make to a
candidate for elective state office, or to a committee.
   This bill would prohibit an administrator of a school district or
community college district from knowingly soliciting, accepting, or
receiving a contribution for the campaign of an elected official of
the district employing the administrator, or any candidate for an
office of the school district or community college district employing
the  administrator, unless the contributor is represented by
the same exclusive representative as the administrator, as
specified.   administrator.  The bill would clarify
that this prohibition does not apply to an administrator who is
soliciting, accepting, or receiving a contribution for his or her own
campaign for an office of a school district or community college
district.
   Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political
Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal
penalties. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this
act for a specified reason.
   The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides
that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes
upon a 2/3 vote of each house and compliance with specified
procedural requirements.
   This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.

   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 85705 is added to the Government Code, to read:

   85705.  (a) An administrator of a school district or community
college district shall not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive a
contribution for the campaign of an elected official of the school
district or community college district employing the administrator,
or any candidate for an office of the school district or community
college district employing the  administrator, unless the
contributor is represented by the same exclusive representative as
the administrator within the meaning of Section 3543 or 3573.
  administrator. 
   (b) This section does not prohibit an administrator of a school
district or community college district from soliciting, accepting, or
receiving a contribution for his or her own campaign for an office
of the school district or community college district.
  SEC. 2.  No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to
Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because
the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school
district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or
infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty
for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the
Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the
meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California
Constitution.
  SEC. 3.  The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers
the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the meaning
of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government Code.