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HAQ583-1
By Senator Givhan
RFD: State Governmental Affairs
First Read: 03-May-23
2023 Regular Session
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SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, political action committees
(PACs) are prohibited from making contributions to
other PACs, except that PACs may make contributions to
principal campaign committees, so long as the donor PAC
is not a principal campaign committee.
This bill would permit PACs to make
contributions to political parties so long as the donor
PAC is not a principal campaign committee.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to political action committees; to amend
Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to permit PACs to make
contributions to political parties in certain circumstances.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"§17-5-15
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, acting for
himself or herself or on behalf of any entity, to make a
contribution in the name of another person or entity, or
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knowingly permit his or her name, or the entity's name, to be
used to effect such a contribution made by one person or
entity in the name of another person or entity, or for any
candidate, principal campaign committee, or political action
committee to knowingly accept a contribution made by one
person or entity in the name of another person or entity;
provided, however, that nothing in this chapter prohibits any
person from soliciting and receiving contributions from other
persons for the purpose of making expenditures to a candidate,
political campaign committee, political action committee, or
elected state or local official required to file reports
pursuant to Section 17-5-8.
(b)(1) It shall be unlawful for any political action
committee or tax exempt political organization under 26 U.S.C.
§ 527, including a principal campaign committee, or any person
authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such political
action committee or 527 organization, to make a contribution,
expenditure, or any other transfer of funds to any other
political action committee or 527 organization. It shall be
unlawful for any principal campaign committee or any person
authorized to make an expenditure on behalf of such principal
campaign committee to make a contribution, expenditure, or
other transfer of funds to any other principal campaign
committee, except where the contribution, expenditure, or any
other transfer of funds is made from a principal campaign
committee to another principal campaign committee on behalf of
the same person.
(2) Notwithstanding the foregoingsubdivision (1), a
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political action committee that is not a principal campaign
committee may make contributions, expenditures, or other
transfers of funds to a principal campaign committeecommittees
and political parties ; and a separate segregated fund
established by a corporation under federal law, if the fund
does not receive any contributions from within this state
other than contributions from its employees and directors, is
not restricted by this subsection in the amount it may
transfer to a political action committee established under the
provisions of Section 17-5-14.1 by the same or an affiliated
corporation."
Section 2. This act shall become effective immediately
following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its
otherwise becoming law.
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