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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 1154

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Relating to: the definition of political action committee for campaign finance purposes.

Elections — Campaign expense Elections — Officials

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. 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

Introduced by: Carpenter (D) , Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Keyeski (D) , Larson (D) , Roys (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wall (D)

19 cosponsors

Arney (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , Brown (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Johnson (D) , Kirsch (D) , McCarville (D) , Miresse (D) , Moore Omokunde (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D) , Udell (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Larson, Carpenter, Wall, Roys, Dassler-Alfheim, Keyeski and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Tenorio, Miresse, Sinicki, Kirsch, Johnson, Udell, Moore Omokunde, Bare, Billings, Roe, Arney, Fitzgerald, Brown, McCarville, Stroud, Subeck, Palmeri and Stubbs

  2. Mar 19, 2026 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  3. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1