Bill Text: CA SB2 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Political Reform Act of 1974.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-04-10 - Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member V. Manuel Pérez. [SB2 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SB2-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 2	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senators Lieu and Yee

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 2, as introduced, Lieu. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign
disclosures.
   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. 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 declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would strengthen the Political Reform Act of 1974
and the campaign disclosure requirements within that act to increase
penalties for failing to properly disclose campaign contributions,
tighten the disclosure requirements on mass mailings, and campaign
messages presented through television, and other forms of media, and
close the loophole associated with campaign contributions from
multipurpose groups and nonprofit organizations.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would strengthen the Political Reform Act of 1974
and the campaign disclosure requirements within that act to increase
penalties for failing to properly disclose campaign contributions,
tighten the disclosure requirements on mass mailings and campaign
messages presented through television, and other forms of media, and
close the loophole associated with campaign contributions from
multipurpose groups and nonprofit organizations.