An Act To Require That Accelerated Campaign Finance Reports Be Completed by Both Clean Election and Nonparticipating Candidates
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0109
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: TUTTLE

Legislative Document 
No. 109 
H.P.85 
House of Representatives, January 11,2005 
An Act To Require That Accelerated Campaign Finance Reports Be 
Completed by Both Clean Election and Nonparticipating 
Candidates 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative TUTTLE of Sanford. 
Printed on recycled paper 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. I. 21·A MRSA §IOI7, sub·§3·B, as amended by PL 2003, c. 
628, Pt. B, §3, is further ~ended to read: 
3-B. 
Accelerated reporting schedule. 
Additional 
reports 
are 
required 
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A. 
In addition 
to 
other 
reports 
required by 
law, 
any 
candidate 
for 
Governor, 
State Senate or State 
House 
of 
Representatives 
who 
is 
not 
certified 
as 
a 
Maine 
Clean 
Election Act candidate under chapter 14 and who receives, 
spends or obligates more than 1% in excess of the primary or 
general election distribution 
amounts 
for 
a 
Maine 
Clean 
Election Act candidate in the same race shall file by any 
means acceptable to the commission, within 48 hours of that 
event, 
a 
report 
with 
the 
commission 
detailing 
the 
candidate's total 
campaign contributions, 
obligations 
and 
expenditures to date. 
B. 
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State Senate 
or State 
House of Representatives shall file the following additional 
reports 
detailing 
the 
candidate's 
total 
campaign 
contributions, obligations and expenditures to date, unless 
that candidate signs an affidavit by the date the report is 
due, attesting that the candidate has not received, spent or 
obligated an amount sufficient to require a 
report under 
paragraph A: 
(1) 
A report filed not later than 5 p.m. on the 42nd 
day before the date on which an election is held and 
complete as of the 44th day before that date; 
(2) 
A report filed no later than 5 p.m. on the 21st 
day before the date on which an election is held and 
complete as of the 23rd day before that date; and 
( 3 ) 
A report filed no later than 5 p.m. on the 12th 
day before the date on which an election is held and 
complete as of the 14th day before that date. 
C. 
A candidate 
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State Senate or State House 
of Representatives shall file with the commission an updated 
report that reports single expenditures in the following 
amounts that are made after the 14th day before an election 
and more than 24 hours before 5:00 p.m. on the date of that 
election: 
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(1) 
For a candidate for Governor, a single expenditure 
of $1,000; 
( 2 ) 
For a candidate for the state Senate, 
a single 
expenditure of $750; and 
( 3 ) 
For 
a 
candidate 
for 
the 
state 
House 
of 
Representatives, a single expenditure of $500. 
A report filed pursuant to this paragraph must be filed 
within 24 hours of the expenditure. 
The commission shall provide forms to facilitate compliance with 
this subsection. 
The commission shall notify a nonparticipating 
candidate with a 
Maine Clean Election Act opponent wi thin 48 
hours if an amount reported on any report under paragraph 
B 
exceeds 
1°0 
in 
excess 
of 
the 
primary 
or 
general 
electioJl 
distribution amounts for a Maine Clean Election Act candidate in 
the same race and no report has been received under paragraph A. 
SUMMARY 
This bill requires all Maine Clean Election Act candidates, 
to 
file 
campaign 
finance 
reports 
in 
accordance 
with 
the 
accelerated reporting schedule.