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1-House Engrossed campaign finance; candidate committee transfers State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HOUSE BILL 2623 An Act amending sections 16-913 and 38-545, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaign contributions and expenses. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
1+REFERENCE TITLE: campaign finance; candidate committee transfers State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2623 Introduced by Representative Weninger An Act amending sections 16-913 and 38-545, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaign contributions and expenses. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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7178 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Section 16-913, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE16-913. Candidate committee contribution limits; requirements A. A candidate committee shall not make contributions to a candidate committee for another candidate. B. A candidate committee may transfer unlimited contributions to any one or more other candidate committees for that same candidate under the following conditions: 1. A candidate committee for a city or town candidate shall not may transfer contributions to that same candidate's committee for a statewide or legislative office. 2. If a candidate committee for a city or town office transfers contributions to a candidate committee for a county office for that same candidate, the candidate committee for the county office shall not transfer contributions to a statewide or legislative candidate committee for that same candidate during the twenty-four months immediately following that transfer of contributions to the county candidate committee. 3. Contributions originally made to the transferring candidate committee are deemed to be contributions to the receiving candidate committee. On transfer, an individual's aggregate contributions to both candidate committees during the election cycle shall not exceed the individual's contribution limit for that candidate. For transfers from a city, town or county candidate's committee to a committee for a statewide or legislative OFFICE, the aggregate amount of contributions from an individual that are transferred shall not exceed the contribution limit for that statewide or legislative office as prescribed by section 16-941. C. A candidate committee shall not knowingly accept contributions in excess of the contribution limits prescribed by law. A candidate committee that unknowingly accepts an excess contribution shall refund or reattribute any excess contribution within sixty days after receipt of the contribution. A candidate committee may reattribute an excess contribution only if both of the following apply: 1. The excess contribution was received from an individual contributor. 2. The individual contributor authorizes the candidate committee to reattribute the excess amount to another individual who was identified as a joint account holder in the original instrument used to make the excess contribution. D. A candidate committee may accept contributions only from an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party. E. A candidate committee may make unlimited contributions to a person other than a candidate's committee. F. A candidate may contribute unlimited personal monies to the candidate's own candidate committee. END_STATUTE Sec. 2. Section 38-545, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read: START_STATUTE38-545. Local public officers financial disclosure; website posting a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any law, charter or ordinance to the contrary, every incorporated city or town or county shall by ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation adopt standards of financial disclosure that are consistent with the provisions of this chapter applicable to local public officers. B. The ordinance, rule, resolution or regulation adopted by the city, town or county pursuant to subsection A of this section shall require each local public officer's completed financial disclosure to be accessible by the public on the website for the city, town or county.END_STATUTE
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