HF 2411 (LSB 6595YH (4) 91)

HOUSE FILE 2411

BY  TUREK

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to disclosure report due dates for certain candidates and committees.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 68A.402, subsection 2, paragraph a, Code 2026, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  Election year.  A candidate’s committee of a candidate for statewide office, the general assembly, or county office shall file reports in an election year as follows: during each calendar quarter, beginning with the first calendar quarter of the calendar year in which a contribution is accepted or an expenditure is made. Each report shall be filed not later than the fifteenth day after the last day of each calendar quarter, except that the report for the calendar quarter ending on December 31 of the calendar year shall be filed not later than January 31 of the following calendar year.
Report due:          Covering period:
May 19          January 1 through May 14
July 19          May 15 or Wednesday
           preceding primary
           election through July 14
October 19          July 15 through October 14
January 19 (next          October 15 or Wednesday
calendar year)           preceding general
           election through
           December 31
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill changes the disclosure report due dates for candidates for statewide office, the general assembly, or county office, and, by operation of law, state and county statutory political committees and other political committees, to 15 days after the end of each calendar quarter of an election year, beginning with the first calendar quarter of the calendar year in which a contribution is accepted or an expenditure is made. However, the report for the calendar quarter ending December 31 shall be filed not later than January 31 of the following calendar year.