Bill Text: CA AB1148 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974: advertisements: disclosure.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 3650.). [AB1148 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1148-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1148	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 26, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brownley
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Fong)
   (Coauthor: Senator Hancock)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend  Section 84305.5   Sections
84305.5, 84502, 84503, 84506, and 84507  of  , and to add
Sections 84502.1, 84502.5, 84502.6, and 84506.5 to,  the
Government Code, relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1148, as amended, Brownley. Political Reform Act of 1974:
 slate mailers   advertisements: disclosure
 .
   The Political Reform Act of 1974 regulates mass mailings, known as
slate mailers, that support or oppose multiple candidates or ballot
measures for an election. The act requires that each slate mailer
identify the slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed
to support or oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the
slate mailer, and to contain other specified information in specified
formatting. The act requires that each candidate and each ballot
measure that has paid to appear in the slate mailer be designated by
an asterisk.
   This bill would instead require that a candidate or ballot measure
appearing in the slate mailer be designated by an asterisk if the
slate mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or
oppose one or more ballot measures that is sending the slate mailer
has received payment to include the candidate or ballot measure in
the slate mailer. 
   The act also regulates advertisements, which are defined as any
general or public advertisement that is authorized and paid for by a
person or committee for the purpose supporting or opposing a
candidate for elective office or a ballot measure or ballot measures.
The act places certain disclosure requirements on advertisements for
or against any ballot measure. The act places more specific
disclosure requirements on broadcast or mass mailing advertisements
that are paid for by independent expenditures that support or oppose
a candidate or ballot measure.  
   This bill would, instead, place certain disclosure requirements on
radio or television advertisements authorized by a candidate or the
candidate's agents that expressly advocate the election or defeat of
a clearly identified candidate or that solicit any contribution for
the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate.  
   The bill would also place certain disclosure requirements on radio
or television advertisements that are made by, or at the behest of,
a political party or political party committee.  
   Additionally, for broadcast, mass mailing, and online
advertisements that support or oppose a candidate, the bill would
require more specific disclosures if the advertisement is paid for by
an independent expenditure. If an advertisement supports or opposes
a ballot measure, the bill would impose the same disclosure
requirements applicable to advertisements that support or oppose a
candidate that are paid for by an independent expenditure, regardless
of whether the advertisement supporting or opposing the ballot
measure is paid for by an independent expenditure. The bill would
specify that the above-described disclosure requirements that are
applicable to mass mailing advertisements do not apply to slate
mailers. 
   Existing law makes a knowing or willful violation of the Political
Reform Act of 1974 a misdemeanor and subjects offenders to criminal
penalties.
   This bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating
additional crimes.
   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 84305.5 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   84305.5.  (a) A slate mailer organization or committee primarily
formed to support or oppose one or more ballot measures shall not
send a slate mailer unless the slate mailer complies with all of the
following:
   (1) The name, street address, and city of the slate mailer
organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one
or more ballot measures are shown on the outside of each piece of
slate mail and on at least one of the inserts included with each
piece of slate mail in no less than 8-point roman type, which shall
be in a color or print that contrasts with the background so as to be
easily legible. A post office box may be stated in lieu of a street
address if the street address of the slate mailer organization or the
committee primarily formed to support or oppose one or more ballot
measures is a matter of public record with the Secretary of State's
Political Reform Division.
   (2) At the top or bottom of the front side or surface of at least
one insert, or at the top or bottom of one side or surface of a
postcard or other self-mailer, there is a notice in at least 8-point
roman boldface type, which shall be in a color or print that
contrasts with the background so as to be easily legible, and in a
printed or drawn box and set apart from any other printed matter. The
notice shall consist of the following statement:




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|                 NOTICE TO VOTERS                |
|                                                 |
|                                                 |
|THIS DOCUMENT WAS PREPARED BY (name of slate     |
|                                                 |
|mailer organization or committee primarily       |
|formed to support                                |
|                                                 |
|or oppose one or more ballot measures), NOT AN   |
|OFFICIAL                                         |
|                                                 |
|POLITICAL PARTY ORGANIZATION. Appearance in this |
|                                                 |
|mailer does not necessarily imply endorsement of |
|others                                           |
|                                                 |
|appearing in this mailer, nor does it imply      |
|endorsement of, or                               |
|                                                 |
|opposition to, any issues set forth in this      |
|mailer. (Name of slate mailer organization or    |
|committee primarily formed to support or oppose  |
|one or more ballot measures) has been paid to    |
|include each candidate and ballot                |
|                                                 |
|measure that is designated by an       *.        |
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   (3) (A) Each candidate and each ballot measure for which the slate
mailer organization or committee primarily formed to support or
oppose one or more ballot measures has received payment to include
the candidate or ballot measure in the slate mailer is designated by
an *. A candidate or ballot measure for which the slate mailer
organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one
or more ballot measures has not received payment to include the
candidate or ballot measure in the slate mailer shall not be
designated by an *.
   (B) The * required by this paragraph shall be of the same type
size, type style, color or contrast, and legibility as is used for
the name of the candidate, or the ballot measure name or number and
position advocated, to which the * designation applies, except that
in no case shall the * be required to be larger than 10-point
boldface type. The designation shall immediately follow the name of
the candidate, or the name or number and position advocated on the
ballot measure, where the designation appears in the slate of
candidates and measures. If there is no slate listing, the
designation shall appear at least once in at least 8-point boldface
type, immediately following the name of the candidate, or the name or
number and position advocated on the ballot measure.
   (4) The name of a candidate appearing in the slate mailer who is a
member of a political party differing from the political party that
the mailer appears by representation or indicia to represent is
accompanied, immediately below the name, by the party designation of
the candidate, in no less than 9-point roman type, which shall be in
a color or print that contrasts with the background so as to be
easily legible. The designation shall not be required in the case of
candidates for nonpartisan office.
   (b) The name, street address, and city of the slate mailer
organization or committee primarily formed to support or oppose one
or more ballot measures, as required by paragraph (1) of subdivision
(a), and the notice required by paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) may
appear on the same side or surface of an insert in the slate mailer.
   SEC. 2.    Section 84502 of the  Government
Code   is amended to read: 
   84502.  "Cumulative contributions" means the cumulative amount of
contributions received by a committee beginning 12 months prior to
the date the committee made its first expenditure to qualify,
support, or oppose  the measure   a candidate
for elective office or a ballot measure or ballot measures  and
ending within seven days of the time the advertisement is sent to the
printer or broadcast station.
   SEC. 3.   Section 84502.1 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   84502.1.  For purposes of this section, the following terms have
the following meanings:
   (a) "Committee disclosure Web site" means either of the following:

   (1) An Internet Web site for a committee that follows the
disclosure requirements in subdivision (e) of Section 84506.
   (2) If the Internet Web site described in paragraph (1) does not
exist, the Secretary of State's Internet Web site.
   (b) "Disclosure name" means the name employed in common usage or
parlance to identify a person that is not an individual.
   (1) For persons for which an acronym is regularly used, the
acronym shall be used.
   (2) Suffixes identifying how the person, such as a corporation or
limited liability company, is organized shall not be used in the
disclosure name unless removing the suffix would result in confusion
with another person.
   (3) For committees that are sponsored by a person that is not an
individual, the disclosure name of the sponsoring person shall be
used instead of the disclosure name of the committee.
   (c) "Identifiable contribution" means the amount of the cumulative
contributions made by an identifiable funder to support or oppose a
candidate or ballot measure being voted on in an election.
   (d) "Identifiable funder" means either of the following:
   (1) All persons making cumulative contributions of at least fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000).
   (2) A committee receiving cumulative contributions from persons
making cumulative contributions to the committee of less than fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) if the total of all of the cumulative
contributions made to the committee by persons making cumulative
contributions of less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) totals at
least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
   (e) "Short disclosure name" means the shortest name employed in
common usage or parlance, or the acronym, that identifies a person
that is not an individual.
   (f) "Significant funder" means the identifiable funder having the
largest identifiable contribution of the top five identifiable
funders.
   (g) "Stand By Your Ad Statement" means a statement described in
Section 84506.5.
   (h) (1) "Top five identifiable funders" means the five
identifiable funders with the largest identifiable contributions,
sorted in decreasing order of size of the identifiable contributions.
In the event that multiple identifiable funders have identical
identifiable contributions, they shall be selected according to
chronological sequence based upon when the first contribution was
made. In the event that there are fewer than five identifiable
funders, "top five identifiable funders" means all identifiable
funders.
   (2) All identifiable funders that are employees of a person that
is not an individual shall be treated as if they were the person if
the person is also an identifiable funder, with all their
identifiable contributions being treated as contributions by the
person for purposes of calculating the person's identifiable
contributions.
   (i) "Top five identifiable funder text" means text listing the top
five identifiable funders. Except for the name of the last
identifiable funder in the top five identifiable funders, the name of
each identifiable funder in the top five identifiable funders shall
be followed by two spaces that shall be immediately followed by "~"
and then another two spaces. For purposes of this subdivision, "name"
means the name of the individual if the identifiable funder is an
individual or the disclosure name of the person if the identifiable
funder is not an individual. Unless otherwise specified, the top five
identifiable funder text shall always be shown in standard sentence
capitalization. 
   SEC. 4.    Section 84502.5 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   84502.5.  (a) A radio advertisement that expressly advocates the
election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or solicits
contributions in support of that purpose, shall, if the advertisement
is authorized by the candidate or an agent of the candidate, include
an audio statement in which the candidate identifies himself or
herself and states that the candidate has approved the message.
   (b) (1) A television advertisement that expressly advocates the
election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate, or solicits
contributions in support of that purpose, shall, if the advertisement
is authorized by the candidate or an agent of the candidate, include
a statement in which the candidate identifies himself or herself and
states that the candidate has approved the message.
   (2) The statement described in paragraph (1) shall be conveyed by
an unobscured, full-screen video of the candidate and only the
candidate making the statement or by a clearly identifiable
photographic or similar image of the candidate and only the candidate
that is accompanied by the candidate reading the statement in a
voice-over. The statement shall also appear in writing at the end of
the advertisement in a clearly readable manner with a reasonable
degree of color contrast between the background and the text of the
written statement. 
   SEC. 5.    Section 84502.6 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   84502.6.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 84503, a radio or television
advertisement that is made by, or at the behest of, a political
party or political party committee shall include the following audio
statement read in a clearly spoken manner by a representative of the
political party or political party committee: "(Name of the political
party or political party committee) is responsible for the content
of this advertisement."
   (b) For television advertisements, the statement described in
subdivision (a) shall be accompanied by an unobscured, full-screen
video of a representative of the political party or political party
committee and only that representative making the statement, or by a
clearly identifiable photographic or similar image of the
representative and only that representative that is accompanied by
the representative reading the statement described in subdivision (a)
in a voice-over. The statement shall also appear in writing on the
screen in a clearly readable manner with a reasonable degree of color
contrast between the background and the text of written the
statement.
   (c) For purposes of this section, if a required statement includes
text in parentheses, the text in the parentheses is meant to be a
description of what is required to be included in the statement.

   SEC. 6.    Section 84503 of the   Government
Code   is amended to read: 
   84503.   (a)     Any
  An  advertisement for or against  any
  a  ballot measure shall include a disclosure
statement  identifying any person whose cumulative
contributions are fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more 
 in a form that complies with Section 84506  . 
   (b) If there are more than two donors of fifty thousand dollars
($50,000) or more, the committee is only required to disclose the
highest and second highest in that order. In the event that more than
two donors meet this disclosure threshold at identical contribution
levels, the highest and second highest shall be selected according to
chronological sequence. 
  SEC. 7.    Section 84506 of the   Government
Code   is amended to read: 
   84506.  (a) A broadcast  or   ,  mass
mailing  , or online  advertisement supporting or opposing a
candidate or ballot measure, that is paid for by an independent
expenditure  ,  shall include a disclosure statement
 that identifies both of the following:   as
prescribed   by this section.  
   (1) The name of the committee making the independent expenditure.
 
   (2) The names of the persons from whom the committee making the
independent expenditure has received its two highest cumulative
contributions of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more during the
12-month period prior to the expenditure. If the committee can show,
on the basis that contributions are spent in the order they are
received, that contributions received from the two highest
contributors have been used for expenditures unrelated to the
candidate or ballot measure featured in the communication, the
committee shall disclose the contributors making the next largest
cumulative contributions of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more.
 
   (b) A television or video advertisement shall include all of the
following:  
   (1) A Stand By Your Ad Statement.  
   (2) A disclosure area with a white background that fills the
bottom 25 percent of the screen concurrently with the reading of the
Stand By Your Ad Statement and which includes both of the following:
 
   (A) Identification of the applicable individual reading the Stand
By Your Ad Statement in a black font equivalent to Arial Narrow that
is at least 4 percent of the height of the screen, in standard
sentence case capitalization, using the following text:  
   (i) If the advertisement is paid for by an individual or if the
significant funder of the advertisement is an individual, the
identification in the disclosure area shall read: "(Name of the
applicable individual) of (name of the state in which the applicable
individual resides)."  
   (ii) If the advertisement is paid for by a person that is not an
individual or if the significant funder is a person that is not an
individual, the identification in the disclosure area shall read: "
(Name of the applicable individual), the (title of the applicable
individual) of (disclosure name of the person paying for the
advertisement or the disclosure name of the person who is the
significant funder, as applicable)."  
   (B) (i) Immediately below the identification described in
subparagraph (A), a disclosure that starts, in italics, with "Top
Funders:" and is followed, in nonitalics, by top five identifiable
funder text.  
   (ii) Immediately following the text described in clause (i), a
statement that starts, in italics, with "Details at:" and is
followed, in italics, by the committee disclosure Web site. 

   (iii) The text described in clauses (i) and (ii) shall be in the
same size black font equivalent to Arial Narrow and at least 3
percent of the height of the screen in standard case capitalization.
 
   (3) The text described in paragraph (2) shall be vertically
centered in the disclosure area.  
   (4) If the advertisement is paid for in full by a person that is
not an individual, or a significant funder that is a person that is
not an individual, and that person has a logo, the logo shall be
shown in the bottom right of the disclosure area. The height and
width of the logo shall be at least 15 percent of the height and
width of the screen.  
   (c) A radio advertisement shall include all of the following:
 
   (1) A Stand By Your Ad Statement.  
   (2) If the radio advertisement is longer than 15 seconds and there
are a least two identifiable funders in the top five identifiable
funders, the Stand By Your Ad Statement shall be immediately followed
by a statement read in a clearly spoken manner as follows: "Other
major funding by (disclosure name of the identifiable funder having
the second largest identifiable contributions of the top five
identifiable funders)."  
   (3) The statements described in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be
immediately followed by a statement read in a clearly spoken manner
as follows: "Details at (committee disclosure Web site)."  
   (d) Except for slate mailers, any mass mailings or print
advertisement paid for by a committee or by any person spending over
one thousand dollars ($1,000) cumulatively on mass mailing or print
advertising during an election shall include all of the following:
 
   (1) A disclosure area that is the size of at least one-eighth the
surface area of one page of the mass mailing or print advertisement.
If the mass mailing or print advertisement includes pages of
different sizes, the disclosure area shall be on the largest page.
The disclosure area shall be set apart from the rest of the page by a
line that frames the disclosure area in the shape of a square or
rectangle and is darker than the background of the disclosure area.
The disclosure area shall have a solid background so that the color
contrast of the text in the disclosure area against the background of
the disclosure area has at least as much color contrast as the most
color contrasting text in the mass mailing or print advertisement.
The disclosure area shall include all of the following:  
   (A) A title that reads "Notice to Voters About Funders of This Ad."
The color of the text of the title must color contrast with the
color of the background in a font equivalent to Arial Narrow in a
point size no smaller than 14 point for pages smaller than 8.5 inches
by 11 inches and no smaller than 18 point for pages that are equal
to, or larger than, 8.5 inches by 11 inches.  
   (B) (i) Immediately below the title described in subparagraph (A),
a disclosure that starts, in italics, with "Top Funders:" and is
followed, in nonitalics, by the top five identifiable funder text.
 
   (ii) Immediately following the text described in clause (i), a
statement that starts, in italics, with "Details at:" and is
followed, in italics, by the committee disclosure Web site. 

   (iii) The text described in clauses (i) and (ii) shall be in the
same size black font equivalent to Arial Narrow and at least 3
percent of the height of the page in standard case capitalization.
 
   (2) If the mass mailing or print advertisement is paid for in full
by a person that is not an individual, or a significant funder that
is a person that is not an individual, and that person has a logo,
the logo shall be shown in the bottom right of the disclosure area.
The height and width of the logo shall be at least 10 percent of the
height and width of the page.  
   (3) If there is space below the bottom of the text required to be
in the disclosure area pursuant to paragraph (1), additional text may
be added with at least one blank line separating the additional text
from the required text. The additional text shall be in a font at
least one point smaller than the required text. The color contrast
between the additional text and the background of the disclosure area
shall not be more than the color contrast between the required text
and the background of the disclosure area.  
   (e) A committee disclosure Web site that is not the Secretary of
State's Internet Web site shall include a disclosure area of at least
250 pixels wide by 200 pixels tall, visible on the home page of the
committee disclosure Web site. The disclosure area shall have a white
background and a border, and shall include all of the following:
 
   (1) A title that reads "Funders of This Web Site." The text of the
title shall be black and in a font equivalent to Arial bold in a
point size no smaller than 9 point.  
   (2) Immediately below the title described in paragraph (1), a
disclosure that starts, in italics, with "Top Funders:" and is
followed, in nonitalics, by top five identifiable funder text. This
disclosure shall be in black and in a font equivalent to Arial in a
point size no smaller than 8 point.  
   (3) At least one blank line immediately following the disclosure
described in paragraph (2).  
   (4) Immediately following the blank line or lines required by
paragraph (3), a link to the Internet Web site maintained by the
Secretary of State that contains disclosures made by the committee
pursuant to this title for the current election cycle. The link shall
be labeled "Full funding info at Secretary of State's Web site." The
link shall be a standard blue underline link in a font equivalent to
Arial in a point size no smaller than 8 point.  
   (5) If there is space below the bottom of the text required to be
in the disclosure area pursuant to paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive,
additional text may be added with at least one blank line and a black
horizontal line separating the additional text from the link
required under paragraph (4). The additional text shall be black and
in a font that is no smaller than 8 point.  
   (f) Any online advertisement shall comply with all of the
following:  
   (1) All video online advertisements paid for, or created by, a
committee or any person spending over one thousand dollars ($1,000)
cumulatively on online advertising shall comply with the disclosure
requirements applicable to television or video advertisements
pursuant to subdivision (a).  
   (2) The commission shall promulgate rules for other online
advertising formats that require the disclosure in those online
advertisement formats, to the extent feasible, of the same type of
information required for other types of advertisements pursuant to
this section.  
   (b) 
   (g)  If an acronym is used to identify any committee
names required by this section, the names of any sponsoring
organization of the committee shall be printed on print
advertisements or spoken in broadcast advertisements. 
   (h) For purposes of this section, if a required statement includes
text in parentheses, the text in the parentheses is meant to be a
description of what is required to be included in the statement.

   SEC. 8.    Section 84506.5 is added to the  
Government Code   , to read:  
   84506.5.  (a) A Stand By Your Ad Statement in the form specified
in subdivisions (c), (d), (e), and (f) is required in an
advertisement only if required by Section 84506. A Stand By Your Ad
Statement is not required if, on the basis of criteria established in
regulations promulgated by the Commission, the advertisement is of
such short duration that including the statement in the advertisement
would constitute a hardship to the person paying for the
advertisement by requiring a disproportionate amount of the
advertisement's content to consist of the statement.
   (b) For purposes of this section, "applicable individual" means
the following:
   (1) If an advertisement is paid for in full by an individual or if
the significant funder is an individual, "applicable individual"
means the individual who paid for the advertisement or the
significant funder, respectively.
   (2) If an advertisement is paid for in full by a corporation or if
the significant funder is a corporation, the chief executive officer
of the corporation or, if the corporation does not have a chief
executive officer, "applicable individual" means the highest-
                                 ranking officer of the corporation.
   (3) If an advertisement is paid for in full by a labor
organization or if the significant funder is a labor organization,
"applicable individual" means the highest-ranking officer of the
labor organization.
   (4) If the advertisement is paid for by a person that is not an
individual, corporation, or labor organization, or if the significant
funder is a person that is not an individual, corporation, or labor
organization, "applicable individual" means the highest-ranking
official of that person.
   (c) If an advertisement is paid for in full by an individual, the
Stand By Your Ad Statement shall read: "I am (name of applicable
individual) of (name of state in which the applicable individual
resides). I paid for this message and approve it."
   (d) (1) If an advertisement is paid for in full by a person that
is not an individual, the Stand By Your Ad Statement shall read: "I
am (name of applicable individual), the (title of the applicable
individual) of (disclosure name of the person paying for the
advertisement), located in (name of the state that is the location of
the principal office of the person paying for the advertisement).
(Short disclosure name of the person paying for the advertisement)
paid for this message and approves it."
   (2) The statement described in paragraph (1) does not need to
include ", located in (name of the state that is the location of the
principal office of the person paying for the advertisement)" if the
name of the state is included in the name of the person.
   (e) If an advertisement is not paid for in full by an individual,
but the significant funder is an individual, the Stand By Your Ad
Statement shall be "I am (name of applicable individual) of (name of
state in which the applicable individual resides). I helped pay for
this message and I approve it."
   (f) (1) If an advertisement is not paid for in full by an
individual and the significant funder is a person that is not an
individual, the Stand By Your Ad Statement shall be "I am (name of
applicable individual), the (title of the applicable individual) of
(disclosure name of the person that is the significant funder),
located in (name of the state that is the location of the principal
office of the person that is the significant funder). (Short
disclosure name of the person that is the significant funder) helped
to pay for this message and approves it."
   (2) The statement described in paragraph (1) does not need to
include ", located in (name of the state that is the location of the
principal office of the person that is the significant funder)" if
the name of the state is included in the name of the person.
   (g) If an acronym is used to identify any committee names required
by this section, the names of any sponsoring organization of the
committee shall be printed on print advertisements or spoken in
broadcast advertisements.
   (h) (1) If a Stand By Your Ad Statement is transmitted through
radio, the statement shall be made by the applicable individual in a
clearly spoken manner in a pitch and tone substantially the same as
the non-Stand By Your Ad Statement portion of the advertisement.
   (2) If a Stand By Your Ad Statement is transmitted through
television or video, the statement shall be conveyed by an unobscured
view of either of the following that takes up the full screen,
except for the bottom 25 percent of the screen that contains the
disclosure area described in paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of
Section 84506:
   (A) A video of the applicable individual that is only of the
applicable individual reading the statement.
   (B) A clearly identifiable photograph or similar image that is
only of the applicable individual, accompanied by the applicable
individual making the statement in voice-over.
   (i) For purposes of this section, if a required statement includes
text in parentheses, the text in the parentheses is meant to be a
description of what is required to be included in the statement.

   SEC. 9.    Section 84507 of the   Government
Code   is amended to read: 
   84507.   Any   Unless Sections 84502.5,
84502.6, 84506, and 84506.5 provide otherwise, any  disclosure
statement required by this article shall be printed clearly and
legibly in no less than 10-point type and in a conspicuous manner as
defined by the  commission   Commission 
or, if the communication is broadcast, the information shall be
spoken so as to be clearly audible and understood by the intended
public and otherwise appropriately conveyed for the hearing impaired.

   SEC. 2.   SEC. 10.   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.   SEC. 11.   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.