Source: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB402%20SUBENG.htm&yr=2005&sesstype=4X&i=402
Timestamp: 2018-03-17 15:22:45
Document Index: 775769306

Matched Legal Cases: ['§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§3', '§434']

Engrossed Version House Bill 402 History
HB402 SUBENG
A Bill to repeal §3-8-5c of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto two new sections, designated §3-8-1a and §3-8-2b; and to amend and reenact §3-8-2, §3-8-4, §3-8-5a, §3-8-7, §3-8-8 and §3-8-12 of said code, all relating to regulating elections; defining terms; requiring candidates and persons making electioneering communications to keep and make available for inspection records of campaign-related contributions and spending; requiring persons who engage in electioneering communications to file financial statements with Secretary of State; contents of statement and filing requirements; penalties for filing delinquent or incomplete financial statements; granting the Secretary of State legislative and emergency rule-making authority; clarifying that electioneering communications made in coordination with a candidate or political party are considered contributions to such candidate or political party; increasing penalty for violations of prohibitions on corporate contributions to candidates or for electioneering communications; requiring political organizations to register with the Secretary of State prior to soliciting or accepting contributions; prohibiting political organizations from accepting contributions in excess of one thousand dollars before the primary and general elections; and making it unlawful to create more than one political organization with the intent to avoid or evade contribution limitations.
(a) Except for: (1) Candidates for party committeemen committeeman and committeewomen committeewoman; in primary and other elections and (2) federal committees required to file under the provisions 2 U.S.C. §434, all candidates for nomination or election and all persons or organizations of any kind advocating supporting, aiding or opposing a the nomination, election or defeat of any candidate shall keep for a period of six months records of receipts and expenditures which are made for political purposes. All of the receipts and expenditures are subject to regulation by the provisions of this article. Verified financial statements of the records and expenditures shall be made and filed as public records by all candidates and by their financial agents, representatives or any person acting for and on behalf of any candidate and by the treasurers of all political party committees.
(o) The limitations on contributions established by subsection (g) this section do not apply to contributions made for the purpose of supporting or opposing a ballot issue, including a constitutional amendment.