House of Representatives

SB 1286

clean elections; signature slips

Sponsors: Senators Jarrett, Petersen; Valadez;

Representative Hatch-Miller

 

DP

Committee on Retirement and Government Operations

DP

Committee on Judiciary

DPA

Caucus and COW

DPA

Third Read

This bill as introduced contains PROP 105 and Emergency clauses.

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As Passed the House

 

SB 1286 mandates campaign treasurers keep records of monies in separate accounts for succeeding elections and specifies that the money only be used for succeeding elections. 

 

History

The Citizens Elections Act was proposed by an initiative petition called Proposition 200 and approved by the Arizona voters on November 3, 1998.   This act created a campaign financing system that allows candidates, who voluntarily participate, to receive public financing for their election campaigns. 

 

A.R.S. §16-950 describes the steps that candidates must take in order to receive campaign funding.  The candidate must give the Secretary of State (SOS) a list of names that have made qualifying contributions ($5.00) to the candidate.  This money shall be deposited by the SOS into a fund.  The SOS will than select a random sample of 5% of the number of non-duplicative names on the list and fax them to the respective county recorder for the addresses on the slips.  Within 10 days, the county recorder shall provide a report to the SOS that identifies the disqualified slips that are unsigned, undated or that the recorder could not verify with the person who is registered to vote.  The SOS shall multiply the number of slips not disqualified by 20 and if the product is greater than 110% of the quantity required, the SOS shall approve the candidate for funds. 

 

Statute does not provide for the supplemental filing of contribution slips.

 

 

Provisions

·          Requires the treasurer of a political committee of a traditional candidate to keep records of monies transferred into a separate account for use by the candidate’s campaign committee for the subsequent election cycle and specifies that those monies may only be used for the subsequent election cycle.

 

·          Clarifies that the legislature intends to further the purposes of the clean elections act by granting approximately equal funding between participating and nonparticipating candidates by recognizing costs incurred by the traditional candidate.

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·          45th Legislature                 

·          Second Regular Session      3          May 9, 2002

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