Bill Text: AZ HB2182 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Campaign finance; candidate committee; transfers

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-22 - Senate JUD Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (6-1-0-0) [HB2182 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2018-HB2182-Engrossed.html

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House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-third Legislature

Second Regular Session

2018

 

 

HOUSE BILL 2182

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 16-913, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaign CONTRIBUTIONS and expenses.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Section 16-913, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-913.  Candidate committee contribution limits; requirements

A.  A candidate committee shall not make contributions to a candidate committee for another candidate.

B.  A candidate committee may transfer unlimited contributions to any one or more other candidate committees for that same candidate, under the following conditions:

1.  A candidate committee for a city or town candidate shall not transfer contributions to that same candidate's committee for a statewide or legislative office.

2.  If a candidate committee for a city or town office transfers contributions to a candidate committee for a county office for that same candidate, the candidate committee for the county office shall not transfer contributions to a statewide or legislative candidate committee for that same candidate during the twenty-four months immediately following that transfer of contributions to the county candidate committee.

3.  Except that contributions originally made to the transferring candidate committee are deemed to be contributions to the receiving candidate committee.  On transfer, an individual's aggregate contributions to both candidate committees during the election cycle shall not exceed the individual's contribution limit for that candidate and the reduced contribution limits prescribed by section 16-941, subsection B apply to the receiving candidate committee if the receiving candidate committee is for a candidate for statewide or legislative office.

C.  A candidate committee shall not knowingly accept contributions in excess of the contribution limits prescribed by law.  A candidate committee that unknowingly accepts an excess contribution shall refund or reattribute any excess contribution within sixty days after receipt of the contribution.  A candidate committee may reattribute an excess contribution only if both of the following apply:

1.  The excess contribution was received from an individual contributor.

2.  The individual contributor authorizes the candidate committee to reattribute the excess amount to another individual who was identified as a joint account holder in the original instrument used to make the excess contribution.

D.  A candidate committee may accept contributions only from an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.

E.  A candidate committee may make unlimited contributions to a person other than a candidate's committee.

F.  A candidate may contribute unlimited personal monies to the candidate's own candidate committee. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Effective date

Section 16-913, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, is effective from and after December 31, 2018.