S-5037

   Amend Senate File 2306 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, before line 16 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  NEW SECTION.  68A.507  Contribution limits for candidates.
   1.  For the purposes of this section, “election campaign cycle” means the time period between elections for a particular office. Each primary, general, and special election is a separate election campaign cycle. Separate contribution limits for each type of election for a particular office, including primary, general, and special elections, apply in an election campaign cycle.
   2.  A person shall not make and a candidate, candidate’s committee, or anyone acting on behalf of any candidate or candidate’s committee shall not accept any contribution which will cause the total amount of the person’s contributions to a candidate or candidate’s committee to exceed the following amounts for an election campaign cycle:
   a.  From a candidate’s committee, two thousand dollars.
   b.  From a political committee that contributes to five or more candidates, five thousand dollars.
   c.  From a political committee that contributes to fewer than five candidates, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
   d.  From a national political party, state statutory political committee, or county statutory political committee, five thousand dollars.
   e.  From any other person, two thousand seven hundred dollars.
   3.  A person shall not make and a political committee shall not accept any contribution which will cause the total amount of the person’s contributions to a political committee to exceed five thousand dollars for an election campaign cycle.
   4.  A person shall not make and a state statutory political committee or county statutory political committee shall not accept any contribution which will cause the total amount of the person’s contributions to a state statutory political committee or county statutory political committee to exceed the following amounts for an election campaign cycle:
   a.  From a political committee that contributes to five or more candidates, five thousand dollars.
   b.  From a political committee that contributes to fewer than five candidates, ten thousand dollars.
   c.  From any other person other than a candidate committee, state statutory political committee, county statutory political committee, or national political party, ten thousand dollars.>
   2.  Title page, by striking lines 1 through 3 and inserting <An Act relating to the regulation of elections, including disclosure reports and campaign contributions.>

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NATE BOULTON