Campaign finance reporting-time limits.

2016
STATE OF WYOMING
16LSO-0389
Introduced
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0119

Campaign finance reporting-time limits.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Zwonitzer, Dn. and Lindholm

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to elections; modifying time limit requirements for filing campaign reports as specified; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1
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W.S. 22
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106
(
a)(i)
,
(b)(i) and (h)(ii),
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107(b) and 22
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108(b) are amended to read:

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106
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Filing of campaign reports.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided in subsections (g) and (j) of this section and in addition to other statements required by this subsection:

(i)

Every candidate shall file a fully itemized statement of contributions
at least seven
(7)

thirty (30)
days before any primary, general or special election with information required by this subsection current
to any day from the eighth

day up to the fourteenth

day before the election

up to forty-eight (48) hours prior to filing the statement
;

(b)

Reports of itemized statements of contributions and statements of contributions and expenditures, and statements of termination shall be made with the appropriate filing officers specified under W.S. 22
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107 and in accordance with the following:

(i)

Except as otherwise provided in this section, any political action committee, candidate's campaign committee, or any political action committee formed under the law of another state that contributes to a Wyoming political action committee or to a candidate's campaign committee, any organization making an independent expenditure under W.S. 22
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102(k), and any other organization supporting or opposing any ballot proposition which expends any funds in any primary, general or special
election shall file an itemized statement of contributions
at least seven
(7)

thirty (30)
days before the election current
to any day from the eighth

day up to the fourteenth

day before the election
up to forty-eight (48) hours prior to filing the statement

and shall also file a statement of contributions and expenditures within ten (10) days after a primary, general or special election;

(h)

In addition to any other report required by this section, an organization required by W.S. 22
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110(c) to report expenditures shall report as follows:

(ii)

The report shall be filed
at least seven (7)

thirty (30)
days before the next primary, general or special election with information current
to a
ny day from the eighth day up to the fourteenth

day before the election

up to forty-eight (48) hours prior to filing the statement
;

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Where statements to be filed.

(b)

Statements required to be filed
at least seven
(7)
thirty (30)
days before any primary, general or special election and statements required to be filed after any
primary, general or special election shall be filed electronically.

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Failure of candidate or committee to file statement.

(b)

A candidate who fails to file the statement of contributions required by the
seventh
thirtieth
day before the election shall have his name printed on a list drafted by the appropriate filing office specified under W.S. 22
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107. The list shall immediately be posted in the filing office and made available to the public.

Section 2.
This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constitution.

(END)

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