Mississippi House Bill 1504

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 5 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act To Revise The Campaign Finance Laws; To Amend Section 23-15-801, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Definitions For Candidate Committee And Independent Expenditure-only Committee; To Amend Section 23-15-803, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide The Content Of The Statement Of Organization For A Candidate Committee; To Require Both Candidate Committees And Political Committees To Keep Detailed Accounts Of Funds Received Or Expended By The Committee; To Provide When Those Accounts May Be Viewed; To Amend Section 23-15-805, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That From And After January 1, 2027, Candidate Committees And Political Committees Shall File All Reports Through An Electronic Campaign Finance Filing System; To Amend Section 23-15-807, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Termination Report; To Clarify When Periodic Reports Shall Be Filed; To Provide When Municipal Candidates Shall File Periodic Reports; To Provide That From And After January 1, 2027, The Notification Required Of Certain Contributions Received Shall Be In Writing And May Be Transmitted Through The Electronic Campaign Finance Filing System; To Amend Section 23-15-809, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide Penalties For Candidates And Independent Expenditure-only Committees That Receive Contributions In Violation Of Corporate Contribution Limits; To Amend Section 23-15-811, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That Any Person Or Entity That Is Required To File A Campaign Finance Report And Is More Than Twenty Days Delinquent May Not Receive Any Contributions Or Make Expenditures Until The Required Report Is Filed; To Provide Fines For Violations; To Amend Section 23-15-813, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Revise The Penalties For Failure To File A Campaign Finance Disclosure Report; To Provide That Such Fines Shall Apply To Failure To File A Pre-election Report; To Provide An Increase In The Fine If The Candidate Committee Or Political Committee Has Been Previously Fine In The Last Four Years; To Amend Section 23-15-821, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That, Upon Filing A Termination Report, Campaign Contributions May Not Be Maintained In A Campaign Account; To Remove The Provision That Allowed Any Contributions Accruing To A Candidate's Or Officeholder's Campaign Account Before January 1, 2018, To Be Exempt From The Requirements Of The Section; To Create New Section 23-15-821.1, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Establish Corporate Contribution Limits; To Provide Civil Penalties For Violating The Corporate Contribution Limits; To Create New Section 23-15-823, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Prohibit Political Committees From Transferring Money To Other Political Committees; To Prohibit Candidates Or Their Representatives From Using More Than One Political Committee; To Prohibit Pre-checked Or Pre-marked Boxes For Contribution Amounts Or Authorizations For Recurring Contributions On Any Communication That Requests A Contribution; To Create New Section 23-15-825, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That, From And After January 1, 2027, The Secretary Of State Shall Randomly Select Certain Campaign Accounts For Audit; To Amend Section 23-15-897, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That The Publication Of Campaign Materials Shall Be Printed In A Manner In Which The Required Language Is Easy To Read; To Provide A Penalty For Failure To Comply With This Provision; To Create New Section 97-13-47, Mississippi Code Of 1972, To Provide That A Person Who Disseminates A Deep Fake Shall Be Guilty Of A Crime If The Person Knows Or Had Reason To Know That The Information Being Disseminated Is A Deep Fake And The Dissemination Occurs Within Ninety Days Of An Election, Was Disseminated Without The Consent Of The Depicted Individual, And Was Disseminated With The Intent To Injure A Candidate, Influence The Result Of An Election Or Deter Any Person From Voting; To Provide Definitions; To Provide The Sentencing For The Crime; To Provide A Cause Of Action For Injunctive Relief In Certain Situations; To Provide Defenses To The Crime; To Bring Forward Sections 23-15-815, 23-15-817, 23-15-819 And 25-61-12, Mississippi Code Of 1972, For The Purpose Of Possible Amendment; And For Related Purposes.

Campaign finance; revise various provisions of laws related to.

Rep. Brent Powell [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-05	House	Died In Committee
2024-02-19	House	Referred To Apportionment and Elections

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
23	15	801	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	803	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	805	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	807	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	809	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	811	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	813	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	815	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	817	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	819	New Code	See Bill Text
23	15	821	Amended Code	See Bill Text
23	15	897	Amended Code	See Bill Text
25	61	12	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2024/pdf/history/HB/HB1504.xml
Text	https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2024/html/HB/1500-1599/HB1504IN.htm