Bills · 2009-2010 Regular Session

AB 42

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acceptance of certain political contributions by certain elective state officials, officials elect, and committees and providing a penalty.

Introduced, stopped here
Passes Assembly, not reached
Passes Senate, not reached
Governor signs, not reached
Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill prohibits any incumbent partisan elective state official, including the

governor and lieutenant governor, or his or her personal campaign or authorized

support committee, from accepting any political contribution for the purpose of

promoting his or her nomination or reelection to the office held by the official during

the period from January 1 of an odd-numbered year through the date of enactment

of the biennial budget act. The bill also prohibits an incumbent governor or

lieutenant governor, or an individual who has been elected to either of those offices

but who has not taken office, or his or her personal campaign or authorized support

committee, from accepting any political contribution for the purpose of promoting his

or her nomination or reelection to the office that the individual holds or to which the

individual has been elected during the period from the day after the date of the

general election through the succeeding first Monday in January. The prohibition

does not apply to contributions accepted by an incumbent official who is subject to

a recall election or by the official's personal campaign or authorized support

committee from the date on which the petition for a recall election is filed until the

date of the recall election. In addition, the bill prohibits a legislative campaign

committee from accepting any political contribution during the period from January

1 of an odd-numbered year through the date of enactment of the biennial budget act.

Violators are subject to a forfeiture (civil penalty) of treble the amount or value

of any unlawful contribution. Intentional violators are guilty of a misdemeanor and

may be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than six months or

both.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime,

the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a

report concerning the proposed penalty and the costs or savings that are likely to

result if the bill is enacted.

Votes

Suspending the rules (to take a vote immediately) needs a two-thirds majority — a higher bar than passing the bill, which needs a simple majority. That's why a suspension motion can show more Ayes than the passage vote that follows it. Glossary

Assembly: Refused to suspend rules to withdraw from committee on Elections and Campaign Reform and take up, Ayes 47, Noes 52

Failed 47–52 Apr 28, 2009 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

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