Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB40%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=40
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 02:30:33+00:00

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(c) (1) A person, including a political committee, who makes or contracts to make independent expenditures aggregating $1,000 or more for any statewide, legislative or multicounty judicial candidate or $500 or more for any county office, single-county judicial candidate, committee supporting or opposing a candidate on the ballot in more than one county, or any municipal candidate on a municipal election ballot, after the fifteenth day, but more than twelve hours, before the date of an election, shall file a report on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, describing the expenditures within twenty-four hours: Provided, That a person making expenditures in the amount of $1,000 or more for any statewide or legislative candidate on or after the fifteenth day but more than twelve hours before the day of any election shall report such expenditures in accordance with §11-15-2b of this code and shall not file an additional report as provided herein.
(5) “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, committee, association and any other legal entity, organization or group of individuals, including, but not limited to, an organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and any political organization under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, other than a political committee with an account established under this article that complies with the contribution limits and source prohibitions of this article with respect to accounts established for that purpose.
(c) When a person receives a covered transfer of $10,000 or more, the recipient shall notify the contributor that the contributor must submit the information required in subsection (d) of this section within forty-eight hours of the transfer: Provided, That if the contributor and the recipient of the covered transfer are affiliates then this subsection only applies to transfers of $50,000 or more. The recipient of the covered transfer may not make a covered transfer of funds or a campaign-related disbursement until it receives the information required by subsection (d) of this section from the contributor. If the contributor of the covered transfer fails to send the information required by subsection (d) of this section, then the recipient shall return the covered transfer funds to the contributor or immediately transfer the funds into another account that is not used to campaign-related expenditures in this state.
(e) If a person makes a campaign-related disbursement that is an independent expenditure regulated by §11-15-2 of this code, then it shall disclose in the filing required by §11‑15-2 of this code, all of the information required by §11-15-2 of this code and all of the information received pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this section from any covered transfer received in the twenty-four months prior to the campaign-related disbursement. If a person makes a campaign-related disbursement that is an electioneering communication regulated by §11‑15‑2b of this code, then it shall disclose in the filing required by §11-15-2b of this code, all of the information required by §11-15-2 of this code and all of the information received pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this section from any covered transfer received in the twenty-four months prior to the campaign-related disbursement.
(f) Any person who willfully fails to comply with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $1,000 and not more than $100,000, or confined in jail for not more than one year, or both fined and confined.

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