Lou Correa
- Democratic
Author
(1) 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, as defined, and imposing other reporting and recordkeeping requirements on campaign committees, as defined. The Fair Political Practices Commission administers and enforces the act. A violation of the act's provisions is punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would revise the definition of "contribution" to include certain payments made by a person to a multipurpose organization, as specified. This bill would require multipurpose organizations that meet specified criteria to comply with the registration and campaign reporting requirements of the act, as specified, including the disclosure of information relating to the organization's donors. This bill would require state ballot measure committees and state candidate committees that raise $1,000,000 or more for an election to maintain an accurate list of the committee's top 10 contributors. This bill would require a committee to provide accurate lists of these contributors to the Commission, and would require the Commission to post the top 10 contributor lists on its Internet Web site, as specified, and to post updates to those lists when prescribed events occur. The bill would require the Commission to provide copies of the top 10 contributor lists to the Secretary of State, at the Secretary of State's request, for purposes of posting those lists on the Secretary of State's Internet Web site. (2) The act requires a candidate or committee that receives contributions of $5,000 or more from any person to inform the contributor within 2 weeks that he or she may be subject to the act's reporting requirements. This bill would require that the candidate or committee inform the contributor within one week for a contribution of $10,000 or more received during the period in which late contribution reports must be filed. The bill would also require the notifications to reference the reporting requirements for multipurpose organizations. By expanding the scope of existing crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing law requires the Secretary of State to prepare a ballot pamphlet that includes specified information with respect to an election. This bill would require the Secretary of State to include in the ballot pamphlet a written explanation of the top 10 contributor lists required by the bill, including a description of the Internet Web sites where those lists would be available to the public. (4) 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. (5) 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 23 vote of each house and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute. The bill would delay the operative date of its provisions until July 1, 2014.
Approved by the Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 16, Statutes of 2014.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 3414.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
Urgency clause adopted.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 12. Page 4764.) Ordered to the Senate.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. (Page 4428.)
Ordered to third reading.
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, urgency clause adopted, passed, and ordered to the Senate.
In Assembly. Held at Desk.
Ordered to the Assembly.
Senate refused to concur in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 26. Noes 4. Page 2915.)
Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2915.)
Motion to reconsider made by Senator Correa.
Urgency clause refused adoption.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 3871.) Ordered to the Senate.
Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. (Ayes 50. Noes 23. Page 3622.)
Ordered to third reading.
From inactive file.
Notice of intention to remove from inactive file given by Assembly Member Atkins.
Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Atkins.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 30).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & R.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 1114.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1005.) (May 23).
Set for hearing May 23.
Placed on APPR. suspense file.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Set for hearing May 13.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 749.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E. & C.A.
Set for hearing April 30.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 3.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB27 | HTML |
| 12/03/12 - Introduced | |
| 04/09/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 05/06/13 - Amended Senate | |
| 07/02/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/07/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/21/13 - Amended Assembly | |
| 01/17/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 04/10/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/09/14 - Enrolled | |
| 05/14/14 - Chaptered |
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