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SB291
V7MQ6PV-1
By Senators Givhan, Singleton, Butler
RFD: State Governmental Affairs
First Read: 03-Apr-25
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First Read: 03-Apr-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under the Fair Campaign Practices Act, political
parties are considered political action committees
(PACs). PAC-to-PAC transfers of funds are prohibited.
This bill would allow a political party and
local or other affiliated party organizations to
transfer funds among themselves.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to the Fair Campaign Practices Act; to amend
Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize transfers
among political parties and its affiliated party
organizations.
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
knowingly permit his or her name, or the entity's name, to be
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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) 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. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a political
action committee that is not a principal campaign committee
may make contributions, expenditures, or other transfers of
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may make contributions, expenditures, or other transfers of
funds to a principal campaign committee; 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.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (b), nothing shall
prohibit the transfer of funds between or among a political
party, a local party organization recognized pursuant to the
bylaws of that political party, and any affiliated entity
recognized pursuant to the bylaws of that political party. "
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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