Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB289 Compare Versions

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3	3	HAQ583-1
4	4	By Senator Givhan
5	5	RFD: State Governmental Affairs
6	6	First Read: 03-May-23
7	7	2023 Regular Session
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13	13	6 HAQ583-1 05/03/2023 PMG (L)tgw 2023-1859
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, political action committees
17	17	(PACs) are prohibited from making contributions to
18	18	other PACs, except that PACs may make contributions to
19	19	principal campaign committees, so long as the donor PAC
20	20	is not a principal campaign committee.
21	21	This bill would permit PACs to make
22	22	contributions to political parties so long as the donor
23	23	PAC is not a principal campaign committee.
24	24	A BILL
25	25	TO BE ENTITLED
26	26	AN ACT
27	27	Relating to political action committees; to amend
28	28	Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to permit PACs to make
29	29	contributions to political parties in certain circumstances.
30	30	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
31	31	Section 1. Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, is
32	32	amended to read as follows:
33	33	"§17-5-15
34	34	(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, acting for
35	35	himself or herself or on behalf of any entity, to make a
36	36	contribution in the name of another person or entity, or
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66	66	knowingly permit his or her name, or the entity's name, to be
67	67	used to effect such a contribution made by one person or
68	68	entity in the name of another person or entity, or for any
69	69	candidate, principal campaign committee, or political action
70	70	committee to knowingly accept a contribution made by one
71	71	person or entity in the name of another person or entity;
72	72	provided, however, that nothing in this chapter prohibits any
73	73	person from soliciting and receiving contributions from other
74	74	persons for the purpose of making expenditures to a candidate,
75	75	political campaign committee, political action committee, or
76	76	elected state or local official required to file reports
77	77	pursuant to Section 17-5-8.
78	78	(b)(1) It shall be unlawful for any political action
79	79	committee or tax exempt political organization under 26 U.S.C.
80	80	§ 527, including a principal campaign committee, or any person
81	81	authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such political
82	82	action committee or 527 organization, to make a contribution,
83	83	expenditure, or any other transfer of funds to any other
84	84	political action committee or 527 organization. It shall be
85	85	unlawful for any principal campaign committee or any person
86	86	authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such principal
87	87	campaign committee to make a contribution, expenditure, or
88	88	other transfer of funds to any other principal campaign
89	89	committee, except where the contribution, expenditure, or any
90	90	other transfer of funds is made from a principal campaign
91	91	committee to another principal campaign committee on behalf of
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123	123	political action committee that is not a principal campaign
124	124	committee may make contributions, expenditures, or other
125	125	transfers of funds to a principal campaign committeecommittees
126	126	and political parties ; and a separate segregated fund
127	127	established by a corporation under federal law, if the fund
128	128	does not receive any contributions from within this state
129	129	other than contributions from its employees and directors, is
130	130	not restricted by this subsection in the amount it may
131	131	transfer to a political action committee established under the
132	132	provisions of Section 17-5-14.1 by the same or an affiliated
133	133	corporation."
134	134	Section 2. This act shall become effective immediately
135	135	following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its
136	136	otherwise becoming law.
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