Bill Text: CT SB00453 | 2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut Senate Bill 453 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: An Act Concerning State Party Federal Accounts.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-03-13 - Public Hearing 03/17 [SB00453 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00453-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 453*
*February Session, 2014*		LCO No. 2525
		02525_______GAE
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING STATE PARTY FEDERAL ACCOUNTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2014) (a) No treasurer of a federal account, as defined in section 9-601 of the general statutes, of a state party, shall make an expenditure that benefits a state central committee for the purposes of staff, office space or other permissible expenditure that exceeds fifty per cent of the total costs associated with such expenditure.

(b) Any such treasurer making an expenditure pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall itemize the expenditure and include the percentage of the total costs associated with such expenditure paid from the federal account as part of any statement filed pursuant to section 9-608 of the general statutes.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To limit and require itemization of expenditures made by a federal account of a state party that benefit a state central committee.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]