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      Pennsylvania special election reporting: 15th district (2018)

FEC Record: ReportingPennsylvania special election reporting: 15th district (2018)June 11, 2018 Pennsylvania will hold a Special General Election on November 6, 2018, to fill the 15th congressional district House seat vacated by Representative Charles Dent. Under state law, parties can nominate candidates by conventions/caucuses. The state deadline
    for political parties to file nomination certificates is September 17, 2018. Filing schedule for candidates Candidate committees involved in the Special General Election (11/06/18) must follow this reporting schedule:
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 Please note that the FEC does not have authority to extend filing deadlines, even when they fall on weekends. Additional details are available at https://transition.fec.gov/pages/report_notices/2018/pa15.shtml    [PDF]. Filing schedule for PACs and party committees Quarterly-filing PACs and party committees that participate in this election generally follow the schedule outlined above, but
    do not file 48-hour notices for last-minute contributions. PACs and party committees that file monthly must continue to file according to their regular filing schedule. Additional details are available in the Federal Register notice. Filing electronically Reports filed electronically must be received and validated by the Commission by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the applicable
    filing deadline. Electronic filers who instead file on paper or submit an electronic report that does not pass the Commission’s validation program by the filing deadline will be considered nonfilers and may be subject to enforcement actions, including
    administrative fines. Timely filing for paper filers Registered and certified mail Pre-election reports sent by registered or certified mail must be postmarked on or before the mailing deadline to be considered
    timely filed; other reports must be postmarked by the filing deadline. A committee sending its reports by certified or registered mail should keep its mailing receipt with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) postmark as proof of mailing because the USPS
    does not keep complete records of items sent by certified or registered mail. Overnight mail Reports filed via overnight mail will be considered timely filed if the report is received by the delivery service on or before the mailing/filing
    deadline. “Overnight mail” includes Priority or Priority Express Mail having a delivery confirmation, or an overnight service with which the report is scheduled for next business day delivery and is recorded in the service’s online tracking system.
    A committee sending its reports by Priority Mail or Priority Express Mail, or by an overnight delivery service, should keep its proof of mailing or other means of transmittal of its reports. Other means of filing Reports sent by other means—including first class mail and courier— must be received by the FEC before the Commission’s
    close of business on the filing deadline. (If the deadline falls on a weekend or federal holiday, such filers should plan accordingly and file reports by the close of business on the last business day before the filing deadline.) Forms are available for downloading and printing at the FEC’s website at https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/forms/. 48-hour contribution notices A participating candidate’s principal campaign committee must file a 48-hour notice    each time it receives a contribution of $1,000 or more per source from October 18 through November 3 for the Special General Election. 24- and 48-hour reports of independent expenditures Political committees and other persons must file 24-hour reports of independent expenditures    that aggregate $1,000 or more from October 18 through November 4 for the Special General Election. This requirement is addition to that of filing 48-hour reports of independent expenditures that aggregate $10,000 or more with respect to an election
    up to and including the 20th day before an election. The 48-hour reporting requirement applies to independent expenditures that aggregate at or above $10,000 prior to October 18. Electioneering communications The 60-day electioneering communications period for the Special
    General Election runs from September 7 through November 6. Disclosure of lobbyist bundling activity Campaign committees, party committees and leadership PACs that are otherwise required to file reports in connection with the special elections must simultaneously file FEC Form 3L if they receive two or more bundled contributions from any lobbyist/registrant or lobbyist/registrant PAC that aggregate in excess of $18,200 during the special election reporting periods.
 Citations Statute 52 U.S.C. 30104(a)
    Filing requirements Regulations 11 CFR 100.19
    Timely filed reports; electronically filed reports 11 CFR 100.29(a)
    Definition of electioneering communication 11 CFR 104.4(b)(2) and (c) and
    109.10(c) and (d)
    Reports of independent expenditures made at any time up to and including the
20th day before an election and those made less than 20 days, but more than 24
hours before the day of an election 11 CFR 104.5(a),
(c), (e), (f), (h), and (i)
    Filing dates for candidates; filing dates for committees that are not
authorized committees of candidates; date of filing; 48-hour notice of
contributions; special election reports; retaining proof of mailing 11 CFR 104.18(a)(2) and
    (e)
    Mandatory electronic filing and validation program 11 CFR 104.22(a)(5)(v) and
    (b)
    Disclosure of bundling by lobbyist/registrants and lobbyist/registrant PACs
for runoffs and special elections; reporting requirement 11 CFR 110.17(e)(2) and
    (f)
    Lobbyist/registrant and lobbyist/registrant PAC contribution bundling
disclosure threshold
 Resources Pennsylvania 15th district special election prior notice [PDF]2018 reporting datesPennsylvania 15th district special election compliance pageFederal Register notice [PDF]
 Author
          Katherine CarothersSr. Communications Specialist


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