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REFERENCE TITLE: initiative; referendum; campaign finance filings |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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HB 2284 |
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Introduced by Representative Leach
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AN ACT
amending sections 16-927 and 19-111, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to initiative and referendum.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-927, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-927. Campaign finance reporting period
A. A political action committee and political party shall file a campaign finance report covering each reporting period as follows:
1. For a calendar quarter without an election, the political action committee or political party shall file a quarterly report. The quarterly report shall be:
(a) Filed not later than the fifteenth day after the calendar quarter.
(b) Complete through the last day of the calendar quarter.
2. For a calendar quarter with an election, the political action committee or political party shall file a preelection and postelection report as follows:
(a) A preelection report shall be:
(i) Filed not later than ten days before the election.
(ii) Complete from the first day of the applicable calendar quarter through the seventeenth day before the election.
(b) A postelection report shall be:
(i) Filed not later than the fifteenth day after the applicable calendar quarter.
(ii) Complete from the sixteenth day before the election through the last day of the applicable calendar quarter.
B. For a political action committee that makes expenditures in support of or opposition to a statewide ballot measure, including in support of or opposition to the circulation of a petition for a statewide ballot measure, and in addition to the reports prescribed by subsection A of this section, the committee shall file A monthly campaign finance report beginning with and covering the first month in which the political action committee receives more than twenty-five thousand dollars in aggregate contributions. The committee shall file the monthly report on the fifth day of the month and shall be complete through the last day of the preceding month.
B. C. A candidate committee shall file a campaign finance report only during the four calendar quarters comprising the twelve‑month period preceding the general election for the office for which the candidate is seeking election, or for cities and towns, the city's or town's second, runoff or general election, however designated by the city or town. The reporting period for a candidate committee's first campaign finance report of the election cycle shall include the entire election cycle to date.
C. D. A committee shall file campaign finance reports until terminated.
Sec. 2. Section 19-111, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
19-111. Number for petition; training materials
A. A person or organization intending to propose a law or constitutional amendment by initiative petition or to file a referendum petition against a measure, item, section or part of a measure, before causing the petition to be printed and circulated, shall file with the secretary of state an application, on a form to be provided by the secretary of state, setting forth the person's name or, if an organization, its name and the names and titles of its officers, the person's or organization's address, the person's or organization's intention to circulate and file a petition, a description of no more than one hundred words of the principal provisions of the proposed law, constitutional amendment or measure and the text of the proposed law, constitutional amendment or measure to be initiated or referred in no less than eight point type, and applying for issuance of an official serial number. At the same time as the person or organization files its application, the person or organization shall file with the secretary of state its statement of organization. The secretary of state shall not accept an application for initiative or referendum without an accompanying statement of organization as prescribed by this subsection, and for a statewide referendum against a legislative enactment, shall not accept an application until after the legislative enactment is final. for the purposes of this subsection, a legislative enactment is final on the adjournment sine die of the legislative session in which the measure was enacted.
B. On receipt of the application, the secretary of state shall assign an official serial number to the petition, which number shall appear in the lower right‑hand corner of each side of each copy thereof, and issue that number to the applicant. The secretary of state shall assign numbers to petitions in numerical sequence, and a record shall be maintained in the secretary of state's office of each application received and of the numbers assigned and issued to the applicant.
C. The secretary of state shall make available to each applicant by electronic means a copy of the text of this article governing the initiative and referendum and all rules adopted by the secretary of state pursuant to this title. The secretary of state shall make available by electronic means a copy of the text of this article governing the initiative and referendum and all rules adopted by the secretary of state pursuant to this title to the county, city and town clerks who shall similarly furnish a copy to each applicant by electronic means. If a member of the public so requests, the secretary of state and the county, city and town clerks shall provide a copy in pamphlet form.
D. The secretary of state shall make available to each person or organization circulating a statewide initiative, referendum or recall petition a copy of circulator training materials created by the secretary of state. Circulator training materials may be provided on paper or in electronic format and shall also be available on the secretary of state's website. A person or organization circulating a statewide petition shall provide each circulator with the secretary of state's circulator training materials and shall collect and submit to the secretary of state each of its circulators' training materials receipts before the filing of completed petitions. Each person who is a statewide circulator shall acknowledge in writing receipt of the training materials before circulating a petition for signatures. Failure to provide circulator training materials or failure to submit circulators' training materials receipts is not grounds for removal of signatures or signature sheets. Notwithstanding section 19‑141, this subsection does not apply to initiative, referendum or recall petitions for cities, towns and counties.
E. The eight point type required by subsection A of this section shall not apply to maps, charts or other graphics.