Bill Text: CA SB265 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: committees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB265 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB265-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 265	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator La Malfa

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to amend Section 82013 of the Government Code, relating to
the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 265, as introduced, La Malfa. Political Reform Act of 1974:
committees.
   The existing Political Reform Act of 1974 defines a committee to
mean any person or combination of persons who, in a calendar year,
receives contributions or makes independent expenditures of $1,000 or
more, or makes contributions of $10,000 or more to, or at the behest
of, candidates or committees.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   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 82013 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   82013.  "Committee" means any person or combination of persons who
directly or indirectly does any of the following:
   (a) Receives contributions totaling one thousand dollars ($1,000)
or more in a calendar year.
   (b) Makes independent expenditures totaling one thousand dollars
($1,000) or more in a calendar year  ; or   .

   (c) Makes contributions totaling ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or
more in a calendar year to or at the behest of candidates or
committees.
   A person or combination of persons that becomes a committee shall
retain its status as a committee until such time as that status is
terminated pursuant to Section 84214.