Bill Text: CA SB976 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: postgovernment employment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB976 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 976	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vidak

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2016

   An act to amend Section 84200 of the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 976, as introduced, Vidak. Political Reform Act of 1974:
campaign statements.
   Existing law, the Political Reform Act of 1974, provides for the
comprehensive regulation of campaign financing, including requiring
the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures and imposing
other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign
committees. The act requires elected officers, candidates,
committees, and slate mailer organizations to file various reports,
including semiannual reports, preelection statements, and
supplemental preelection statements.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
provision governing the filing of semiannual campaign statements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 84200 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   84200.  (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3),
elected officers, candidates, and committees pursuant to subdivision
(a) of Section 82013 shall file semiannual statements each year no
later than July 31 for the period ending June 30, and no later than
January 31 for the period ending December 31.
   (1) A candidate who, during the past six  months 
 months,  has filed a declaration pursuant to Section 84206
shall not be required to file a semiannual statement for that
six-month period.
   (2) Elected officers whose salaries are less than two hundred
dollars ($200) a month, judges,  and  judicial 
candidates,   candidates  and their controlled
committees shall not file semiannual statements pursuant to this
subdivision for any six-month period in which they have not made or
received any contributions or made any expenditures.
   (3) A judge who is not listed on the ballot for reelection to, or
recall from, any elective office during a calendar year shall not
file  a  semiannual  statements  
statement  pursuant to this subdivision for any six-month period
in that year if both of the following apply:
   (A) The judge has not received any contributions.
   (B) The only expenditures made by the judge during the calendar
year are contributions from the judge's personal funds to other
candidates or committees totaling less than one thousand dollars
($1,000).
   (b) All committees pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c) of Section
82013 shall file campaign statements each year no later than July 31
for the period ending June 30, and no later than January 31 for the
period ending December 31, if they have made contributions or
independent expenditures, including payments to a slate mailer
organization, during the six-month period before the closing date of
the statements.