Campaign finance-organizations.

WORKING DRAFT
2010
STATE OF
WYOMING
10LSO-0293

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0068

Campaign finance-
organizations
.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Illoway and Brown and Senator(s) Case

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
campaign finance;
repealing restrictions o
n
organizations mak
ing
independent expenditures to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate; conforming state law to a United State
s
Supreme Court ruling;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 22
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25
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102(a)
,
(b) and by creating a new subsection (k)
is
amended to read:

22
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25
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102.

Contribution of funds or election assistance restricted; limitation on contributions; right to communicate; civil penalty.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, no organization of any kind including a corporation, partnership, trade union, professional association or civic, fraternal or religious group or other profit or nonprofit entity except a political party, political action committee or candidate's campaign committee organized under W.S. 22
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25
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101, directly or indirectly through any officer, member, director or employee, shall contribute funds, other items of value or election assistance to
aid, promote or prevent the nomination or election of
any candidate or group of candidates
.

or to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party.

No person shall solicit or receive a payment or contribution from an organization prohibited from making contributions under this subsection.

(b)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, only a natural person, political party, or a political action committee or a candidate's campaign committee organized under W.S. 22
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25
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101 shall contribute funds or election assistance
in order to aid, promote or prevent the nomination or election of

directly to
any candidate or group of candidates
.
, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party.

No person shall solicit or receive a political payment or contribution from any source other than a natural person, political party, political action committee or candidate's campaign committee organized under W.S. 22
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25
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101.

(k)

The prohibitions in this section shall not be construed to prohibit any
organization of any kind including a corporation, partnership, trade union, professional association or civic, fraternal or religious group or other profit or nonprofit entity
from exercising its first amendment rights to make independent expenditures for speech expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate.

Section 2.

This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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