House Journal: Page 1827: Wednesday, April 28, 1999

42   timely filed if mailed bearing a United States postal

43   service postmark on or before the due date.  Filing
44   obligations shall cease when the person files a
45   statement of discontinuation indicating that the
46   person's financial activity in support of or in
47   opposition to expressly advocate the passage or defeat
48   of the ballot issue has ceased.  Statements and
49   reports shall be filed with the commissioner
50   responsible under section 47.2 for conducting the
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 1   election at which the issue is voted upon, except that
 2   reports on a statewide ballot issue shall be filed
 3   with the board.
 4     3.  A person taking action involving the making of
 5   an expenditure or incurrence of indebtedness in
 6   support or opposition to expressly advocate the
 7   passage or defeat of a ballot issue independently of a
 8   political committee shall, within seventy-two hours of
 9   taking the action, notify in writing any political
10   committee which advocates the same position with
11   regard to the ballot issue as the person taking the
12   action.  The notification shall provide the political
13   committee with the cost of the promotion at fair
14   market value.  A copy of the notification shall be
15   sent to the board.  It shall be presumed that a
16   benefited committee approves the action if the
17   committee fails to file a statement of disavowal with
18   the commissioner or board and takes corrective action
19   within ten days of the action.  Action approved by a
20   committee shall be reported as a contribution by the
21   committee.
22     Sec. 9.  Section 56.14, subsection 1, paragraph a,
23   Code 1999, is amended to read as follows:
24     1.  a.  A person who causes the publication or
25   distribution of published material designed to promote
26   or defeat expressly advocate the nomination, or
27   election, or defeat of a candidate for public office
28   or the passage or defeat of a constitutional amendment
29   or public measure shall include conspicuously on the
30   published material the identity and address of the
31   person responsible for the material.  If the person
32   responsible is an organization, the name of one
33   officer of the organization shall appear on the
34   material.  However, if the organization is a committee
35   which has filed a statement of organization under this
36   chapter, only the name of the committee is required to
37   be included on the published material.  Published
38   material designed to promote or defeat expressly
39   advocate the nomination, or election, or defeat of a
40   candidate for public office or the passage or defeat

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