Bill Text: MS HB169 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Campaign finance reports; require those filed by all candidates to be available online.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-03-05 - Died In Committee [HB169 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2024-HB169-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2024 Regular Session
To: Apportionment and Elections
By: Representative Ladner
House Bill 169
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-805, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT ALL CAMPAIGN FINANCE STATEMENTS, REPORTS OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES, AND OTHER REPORTS REQUIRED TO BE FILED SHALL BE POSTED ONLINE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE; TO AMEND SECTION 23-15-815, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CONFORM; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 23-15-805, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-805. (a) Candidates for state, state district, and legislative district offices, and every political committee, which makes reportable contributions to or expenditures in support of or in opposition to a candidate for any such office or makes reportable contributions to or expenditures in support of or in opposition to a statewide ballot measure, shall electronically file all reports required under this article with the Office of the Secretary of State.
(b) Candidates for county
or county district office, and every political committee which makes reportable
contributions to or expenditures in support of or in opposition to a candidate
for such office or makes reportable contributions to or expenditures in support
of or in opposition to a countywide ballot measure or a ballot measure
affecting part of a county, excepting a municipal ballot measure, shall electronically
file all reports required by this section * * * with the * * *
Office of the Secretary of State.
(c) Candidates for
municipal office, and every political committee which makes reportable
contributions to or expenditures in support of or in opposition to a candidate
for such office, or makes reportable contributions to or expenditures in
support of or in opposition to a municipal ballot measure shall electronically
file all reports required by this article * * * with the * * * Office of the Secretary of State.
(d) (i) The
Secretary of State * * * shall make all reports
received under this subsection available for public inspection and copying and
shall preserve the reports for a period of five (5) years.
(ii) All reports required to be filed under subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section shall be filed online or via an alternate delivery method as prescribed by the Secretary of State.
SECTION 2. Section 23-15-815, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
23-15-815. (a) The Secretary of State shall prescribe and make available forms and promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement this article.
(b) The Secretary of State,
circuit clerks and municipal clerks shall, within forty-eight (48) hours after
the time of the receipt by the appropriate office of reports and statements
filed with it, make them available for public inspection, and copying at the expense
of the person requesting such copying, make them available online as
provided in Section 23-15-805 and keep such designations, reports and
statements for a period of * * * five (5) years from the date
of receipt.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1, 2025.
