House Journal: Page 1825: Wednesday, April 28, 1999

44     2.  A political committee shall not be established

45   to support or oppose expressly advocate the
46   nomination, election, or defeat of only one candidate
47   for office, except that a political committee may be
48   established to support or oppose expressly advocate
49   the passage or defeat of approval of a single judge
50   standing for retention.
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 1     Sec. 6.  Section 56.6, subsection 1, paragraph d,
 2   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
 3     d.  Committees for municipal and school elective
 4   offices and local ballot issues shall file their first
 5   reports five days prior to any election in which the
 6   name of the candidate or the local ballot issue which
 7   they support or oppose expressly advocate appears on
 8   the printed ballot and shall file their next report on
 9   the first day of the month following the final
10   election in a calendar year in which the candidate's
11   name or the ballot issue appears on the ballot.  A
12   committee supporting or opposing expressly advocating
13   the nomination, election, or defeat of a candidate for
14   a municipal or school elective office or the passage
15   or defeat of a local ballot issue shall also file
16   disclosure reports on the nineteenth day of January
17   and October of each year in which the candidate or
18   ballot issue does not appear on the ballot and on the
19   nineteenth day of January, May, and July of each year
20   in which the candidate or ballot issue appears on the
21   ballot, until the committee dissolves.  These reports
22   shall be current to five days prior to the filing
23   deadline and are considered timely filed if mailed
24   bearing a United States postal service postmark on or
25   before the due date.
26     Sec. 7.  Section 56.12A, unnumbered paragraph 1,
27   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
28     The state and the governing body of a county, city,
29   or other political subdivision of the state shall not
30   expend or permit the expenditure of public moneys for
31   political purposes, including supporting or opposing
32   expressly advocating the passage or defeat of a ballot
33   issue.
34     Sec. 8.  Section 56.13, subsections 1, 2, and 3,
35   Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
36     1.  Action involving a contribution or expenditure
37   which must be reported under this chapter and which is
38   taken by any person, candidate's committee or
39   political committee on behalf of a candidate, if known
40   and approved by the candidate, shall be deemed action
41   by the candidate and reported by the candidate's
42   committee.  It shall be presumed that a candidate

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