Modifies provisions relating to candidate committees

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Modifies provisions relating to candidate committees

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Senate Committee Substitute Print SCS/SB 976 - Current law requires any person who registers as a lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committee the person may have in existence.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Senate Committee Substitute Print SCS/SB 976 - Current law requires any person who registers as a lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committee the person may have in existence.
• This act allows any person who has registered as a lobbyist and also has a candidate committee for the purpose of seeking a county, municipal, or school board office to maintain the candidate committee, provided the person is not lobbying the county, municipality, or school board for which the candidate committee is designated to seek office.
• Nothing in this act shall prohibit a person from changing the designated office sought by his or her candidate committee, provided such person is never simultaneously registered to lobby the public office for which such person's committee is designated to seek office.
• This act is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1788 (2026).

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Official Summary Text

The following summaries of this bill are available:

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Senate Committee Substitute

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SCS/SB 976 - Current law requires any person who registers as a lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committee the person may have in existence. This act allows any person who has registered as a lobbyist and also has a candidate committee for the purpose of seeking a county, municipal, or school board office to maintain the candidate committee, provided the person is not lobbying the county, municipality, or school board for which the candidate committee is designated to seek office. Nothing in this act shall prohibit a person from changing the designated office sought by his or her candidate committee, provided such person is never simultaneously registered to lobby the public office for which such person's committee is designated to seek office.

This act is identical to a provision in the truly agreed to SS/SCS/HCS/HB 1871 (2026) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1788 (2026).
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Introduced

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SB 976 - Current law requires any person who registers as a lobbyist to dissolve any candidate committee the person may have in existence. This act allows any person who has registered as a lobbyist and also has a candidate committee for the purpose of seeking a county, municipal, or school board office to maintain the candidate committee, provided the person is not lobbying the county, municipality, or school board for which the candidate committee is designated to seek office.
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Current Bill Text

5436S.02C
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SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 976
AN ACT
To repeal section 105.465, RSMo, and to enact in lieu
thereof one new section relating to candidate
committees.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 105.465, RSMo, is repealed and one new
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 105.465,
to read as follows:
105.465. 1. Any person who registers as a lobbyist
shall dissolve his or her candidate committee. In the
course of dissolving such committee, such person shall not
disburse moneys from such committee, except for the purpose
of:
(1) Returning a contribution made to the candidate
committee to the entity responsible for making the
contribution to the committee;
(2) Donating moneys to a nonprofit entity qualified as
exempt from federal taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; or
(3) Transferring moneys to a political party committee.
2. Notwithstanding subsection 1 of this section to the
contrary, no person who registers as a lobbyist shall be
prohibited from maintaining a candidate committee designated
to seek election to a county, municipal, or school board
office, provided such person is not registered to lobby the
county, municipality, or school district for which that
person's candidate committee is designated to seek office.
Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a person from
changing the designated office sought by his or her

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candidate committee, provided such person is never
simultaneously registered to lobby the public office for
which such person's committee is designated to seek office.
A candidate committee maintained under this subsection shall
make no expenditures or disbursements except to support the
candidacy of the person maintaining the committee or for any
purpose authorized by subdivisions (1) to (3) of subsection
1 of this section.
3. For purposes of this section, the term "lobbyist"
shall have the same meaning given to such term under section
105.470, and the terms "committee", "candidate committee",
"contribution", "office", "public office", and "political
party committee" shall have the same meanings given to such
terms under section 130.011.