House Journal: Page 1826: Wednesday, April 28, 1999

43   approves the action if the candidate had knowledge of

44   it and failed to file a statement of disavowal with
45   the commissioner or board and take corrective action
46   within seventy-two hours of the action.  A person,
47   candidate's committee or political committee taking
48   such action independently of that candidate's
49   committee shall notify that candidate's committee in
50   writing within twenty-four hours of taking the action.
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 1   The notification shall provide that candidate's
 2   committee with the cost of the promotion at fair
 3   market value.  A copy of the notification shall be
 4   sent to the board.
 5     Any person who makes expenditures or incurs
 6   indebtedness, other than incidental expenses incurred
 7   in performing volunteer work, in support or opposition
 8   to expressly advocate the nomination, election, or
 9   defeat of a candidate for public office shall notify
10   the appropriate committee and provide necessary
11   information for disclosure reports.
12     2.  If a person, other than a political committee,
13   makes one or more expenditures in excess of five
14   hundred dollars in the aggregate, or incurs
15   indebtedness in excess of five hundred dollars in the
16   aggregate, in any one calendar year for purposes of
17   supporting or opposing to expressly advocate the
18   passage or defeat of a ballot issue, the person shall
19   file a statement of activity within ten days of taking
20   the action exceeding the threshold.  The statement
21   shall contain information identifying the person
22   filing the statement, identifying the ballot issue,
23   and indicating the position urged by the person with
24   regard to the ballot issue.  The person shall file
25   reports indicating the dates on which the expenditures
26   or incurrence of indebtedness took place; a
27   description of the nature of the action taken which
28   resulted in the expenditures or debt; and the cost of
29   the promotion at fair market value.  For a local
30   ballot issue, the reports shall be filed five days
31   prior to any election in which the ballot issue
32   appears and on the first day of the month following
33   the election, as well as on the nineteenth day of
34   January, May, and July of each year in which the
35   ballot issue appears on the ballot and on the
36   nineteenth day of January and October of each year in
37   which the ballot issue does not appear on the ballot.
38   For a statewide ballot issue, reports shall be filed
39   on the nineteenth day of January, May, and July of
40   each year.  The reports shall be current to five days
41   prior to the filing deadline, and are considered

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