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SB1259 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
campaigns; protected
residential addresses
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1259
AN
ACT
amending sections 16-906 and 18-444,
Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaigns.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-906, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
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16-906.
Committee statement of organization; amendment; committee
limitation; alternate mailing address
A. A committee shall file a statement of organization
with the filing officer within ten days after qualifying as a committee.
B.
Except as provided in subsection H
of this section,
a statement of organization shall include the following
committee information:
1. The committee name, mailing address,
e-mail
email
address, website, if
any, and telephone number, if any, and the type of committee. The
committee name shall include:
(a) For a candidate committee, the candidate's first
or last name and, if the candidate has a candidate committee open for more than
one office, the office sought.
(b) For a political action committee that is
sponsored, the sponsor's name or commonly known nickname.
2. The name, mailing address,
e-mail
email
address, website, if any, and telephone number of any
sponsor.
3. The name, physical location or street address,
e-mail
email
address, telephone
number, occupation and employer of the committee's chairperson and
treasurer. For a candidate committee, the candidate may serve as
both chairperson and treasurer.
4. For a candidate committee for a partisan office,
the candidate's party affiliation.
5. A listing of all banks or other financial
institutions used by the committee.
6. A statement that the committee chairperson and
committee treasurer have read the filing officer's campaign finance and
reporting guide, agree to comply with this article and articles 1, 1.2, 1.3,
1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 of this chapter, and agree to accept all notifications
and service of process via the
e-mail
email
address provided by the committee.
C. A committee shall file an amended statement of
organization within ten days after any change in committee information.
D. On filing a statement of organization, the filing
officer shall issue an identification number to the committee.
E. A standing committee shall file a statement of
organization with the secretary of state and a copy of the statement in each
jurisdiction in which the committee is active.� Only the secretary of state
shall issue an identification number.
F. A candidate may have only one committee in
existence for the same office during the same election cycle.
G. On filing a statement of organization, a
political action committee or political party may perform any lawful activity,
including making contributions, making expenditures or conducting issue
advocacy, without establishing a separate committee for each activity or
specifying each activity in its statement of organization.
H. A person may provide an alternate
mailing address for the purposes of this section and may attest that the
person's residence is in the electoral district if the person's residential
address is both:
1. Required to be included pursuant
to subsection B of this section.
2. protected from public disclosure
pursuant to section 16-153.
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Sec. 2. Section 18-444, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
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18-444.
Duty to file financial disclosure statement; contents;
exceptions; alternate mailing address
A. In addition to other statements and reports
required by law, every public officer, as a matter of public record, shall file
with the secretary of state on a form prescribed by the secretary of state a
verified financial disclosure statement covering the preceding calendar year.�
Except as provided in subsection G of this section,
the
statement shall disclose:
1. The name and home or work address of the public
officer, whether the public officer's spouse is a member of the public
officer's household, the number of minor children who are members of the public
officer's household and all names and addresses under which each does business.
�
If disclosure of the identity of the public
officer's spouse or minor child would otherwise be required, a public officer
may comply with the identification requirement by using the term
"spouse" or "minor child", as applicable.
2. The name and address of each employer and of each
other source of compensation other than gifts amounting to more than
one thousand dollars
$1,000
received
during the preceding calendar year by the public officer and members of
his
the public officer's
household in
their own names, or by any other person for the use or benefit of the public
officer or members of
his
the public officer's
household, a description of
the services for which the compensation was received and the nature of the
employer's business. This paragraph
shall
does
not
be construed to
require the
disclosure of individual items of compensation that constituted a portion of
the gross income of the business from which the public officer or members of
his
the
public officer's
household derived compensation.
3. For a controlled business, a description of the
goods or services provided by the business, and if any single source of
compensation to the business during the preceding calendar year amounts to more
than
ten thousand dollars
$10,000
and is more than twenty-five percent of the gross income of the business,
the disclosure shall also include a description of the goods or services
provided to the source of compensation. For a dependent business the
statement shall disclose a description of the goods or services provided by the
business and a description of the goods or services provided to the source of
compensation from which the dependent business derived the amount of gross
income described in section 38-541, paragraph 4. If the source
of compensation for a controlled or dependent business is a business, the
statement shall disclose a description of the business activities engaged in by
the source of compensation.
4. The names and addresses of all businesses and
trusts in which the public officer or members of
his
the public officer's
household, or any other person for the use or benefit of the public officer or
members of
his
the public officer's
household, had an ownership or beneficial
interest of over
one thousand dollars
$1,000
at any time during the preceding calendar year, and the names and addresses of
all businesses and trusts in which the public officer or any member of
his
the
public officer's
household held any office or had a fiduciary
relationship at any time during the preceding calendar year, together with the
amount or value of the interest and a description of the interest, office or
relationship.
5. All Arizona real property interests and real
property improvements, including specific location and approximate size, in
which the public officer, any member of
his
the public officer's
household or a controlled or dependent business held legal title or a
beneficial interest at any time during the preceding calendar year, and the
value of any such interest, except that this paragraph does not apply to a real
property interest and improvements thereon used as the primary personal
residence or for the personal recreational use of the public
officer. If a public officer, any member of
his
the public officer's
household or a controlled or dependent business acquired or divested any such
interest during the preceding calendar year,
he
the public officer
shall also disclose that the transaction was made and the date it
occurred. If the controlled or dependent business is in the business
of dealing in real property interests or improvements, disclosure need not
include individual parcels or transactions as long as the aggregate value of
all parcels of such property is reported.
6. The names and addresses of all creditors to whom
the public officer or members of
his
the public officer's
household, in their own names or in the name of any other person, owed a debt
of more than
one thousand dollars
$1,000
or to whom a controlled business or a dependent business owed a debt of more
than
ten thousand dollars which
$10,000
that
was also more than thirty percent of the total business
indebtedness at any time during the preceding calendar year, listing each such
creditor.� This paragraph
shall
does
not
be construed to
require the disclosure of debts owed
by the public officer or any member of
his
the public officer's
household resulting from the ordinary conduct of a business other than a
controlled or dependent business
nor shall
or require the
disclosure
be required
of credit
card transactions, retail installment contracts, debts on residences or
recreational property exempt from disclosure under paragraph 5 of this
subsection, debts on motor vehicles not used for commercial purposes, debts
secured by cash values on life insurance or debts owed to
relatives. It is sufficient disclosure of a creditor if the name and
address of a person to whom payments are made is disclosed. If the
public officer, any member of
his
the public officer's
household or a controlled or dependent business incurred or discharged a debt
which
that
is reportable under this
subsection during the preceding calendar year, the report shall disclose that
the transaction was made and the date it occurred.
7. The identification and amount of each debt
exceeding
one thousand dollars
$1,000
owed at any time during the preceding calendar year to the public officer and
members of
his
the public officer's
household in their own names, or to any
other person for the use or benefit of the public officer or any member of
his
the
public officer's
household. The disclosure shall include the
identification and amount of each debt exceeding
ten thousand
dollars
$10,000
to a controlled business or
dependent business
which
that
was
also more than thirty percent of the total indebtedness to the business at any
time during the preceding calendar year.� This paragraph
shall
does
not
be construed to
require the
disclosure of debts from the ordinary conduct of a business other than a
controlled or dependent business.� If the public officer, any member of
his
the
public officer's
household or a controlled or dependent business
incurred or discharged a debt
which
that
is reportable under this subsection during the preceding year, the report shall
disclose that the transaction was made and the date it occurred.
8. The name of each source of any gift, or
accumulated gifts from a single source, of more than
five hundred
dollars
$500
received by the public officer and
members of
his
the public officer's
household in their own names during the
preceding calendar year, or by any other person for the use or benefit of the
public officer or any member of
his
the public officer's
household except gifts received by will or by virtue of intestate succession,
or received by way of distribution from any inter vivos or testamentary trust
established by a spouse or by an ancestor, or gifts received from any other
member of the household or relatives to the second degree of consanguinity.
9. A list of all business licenses issued to, held
by or in which the public officer or any member of
his
the public officer's
household had an interest at any time during the preceding calendar year,
including the name in which the license was issued, the type of business and
its location.
10. A list of all bonds, together with their value,
issued by this state or any political subdivision of this state and held at any
time during the preceding calendar year by the public officer or any member of
his
the
public officer's
household, which bonds issued by a single entity had a
value in excess of
one thousand dollars
$1,000
. If the public officer or any member of
his
the public officer's
household acquired or divested any bonds during the preceding calendar year
which
that
are reportable under this
paragraph, the fact that the transaction occurred and the date shall also be
shown.
11. The name of each meeting, conference or other
event where the public officer is participating in the public officer's
official capacity if travel-related expenses of
one thousand
dollars
$1,000
or more were incurred on behalf of
the public officer and the travel-related expenses are not paid by the public
officer.
B. If an amount or value is required to be reported
pursuant to this section, it is sufficient to report whether the amount or
value of the equity interest falls within:
1. Category 1,
one thousand dollars
$1,000
to
twenty-five thousand dollars
$25,000
.
2. Category 2, more than
twenty-five
thousand dollars
$25,000
to
one
hundred thousand dollars
$100,000
.
3. Category 3, more than
one hundred
thousand dollars
$100,000
.
C. This section does not require the disclosure of
any information that is privileged by law.
D. The statement required to be filed pursuant to
subsection A
of this section
shall be filed by all
persons who qualified as public officers at any time during the preceding
calendar year on or before January 31 of each year with the exceptions that a
public officer appointed to fill a vacancy
shall
, within
sixty days following
his
the public officer's
taking of such office,
shall
file a financial disclosure statement covering as
his
the public officer's
annual period the twelve month period ending with the last full month
prior to
before
the date of
his
the public officer's
taking office, and a public officer whose final term expires less than thirty-one
days into the immediately following calendar year may file the public officer's
final financial disclosure at the same time as the disclosure for the last
immediately preceding year.
E. The secretary of state shall prepare written
guidelines, forms and samples for completing the financial disclosure statement
required by this section.� A copy of the guidelines, forms and samples shall be
distributed to each public officer and shall be made available to each
candidate required to file a financial disclosure statement pursuant to section
38-543.
F. Beginning January 1, 2017, the statement required
to be filed in subsection D of this section may be filed by the public officer
in a form prescribed by the secretary of state that includes authorization for
future filings to be submitted in an electronic format. Any
subsequent filings required to be filed in subsection D of this section may be
filed in an electronic format as prescribed by the secretary of
state. Beginning January 1, 2017, any statements that are
required to be filed by a local public officer pursuant to an ordinance, rule,
resolution or regulation adopted pursuant to section 38-545 may be filed
in an electronic format as prescribed by the secretary of state.
g. A person may provide an alternate
mailing address for the purposes of this section and may attest that the
person's residence is in the electoral district if the person's residential
address is both:
1. Required to be disclosed pursuant
to subsection A of this section.
2. protected from public disclosure
pursuant to section 16-153.
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