Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session
Relating to: the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes.
Elections — Campaign expense Elections — Officials
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, 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
Under this bill, for campaign finance purposes, a political action committee
includes a person, other than an individual, that spends more than $1,000 in a
12-month period on expenditures for express advocacy, expenditures made to
support or defeat a referendum, and contributions made to a candidate committee,
legislative campaign committee, or political party.
Current law provides that a political action committee is a person, other than
an individual, that either has express advocacy as its major purpose or spends more
than 50 percent of its total spending in a 12-month period on expenditures for
express advocacy, expenditures made to support or defeat a referendum, and
contributions made to a candidate committee, legislative campaign committee, or
political party.
Sponsors
Full history
- Aug 26, 2021 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Larson, Carpenter, Roys, Agard and Johnson; cosponsored by Representatives Anderson, Brostoff, Sinicki, Subeck, Hebl, Shankland, Ohnstad, Baldeh, Neubauer, Snodgrass, Cabrera, Milroy, Considine, Pope, Spreitzer, Conley, Shelton and Andraca
- Aug 26, 2021 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics
- Sep 13, 2021 · Senate
Representative Emerson added as a cosponsor
- Mar 15, 2022 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1