Assigned to JUDE FOR COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1581
campaign finance reports; filing dates
Purpose
Modifies filing requirements for various campaign finance reports and adds a postprimary
report to the list of reports required to be filed as outlined.
Background
Statute requires a candidate committee for a statewide candidate to file a campaign finance
report during each calendar quarter comprising the 48-month period preceding the general election
for the office for which the candidate is seeking election. A candidate committee, other than a
statewide committee, must file a campaign finance report only during the four calendar quarters
comprising the 12-month period preceding the general election for the office for which the
candidate is seeking election.
Statute specifies that for a city or town candidate the year of the city's or town's second,
runoff or general election year for the office the candidate is seeking, however designated by the
city or town, is deemed the general election for that candidate (A.R.S. § 16-927).
A general election of representatives in congress, and of state, county, and precinct officers
must be on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the first even numbered year
after the year in which Arizona is admitted to statehood and biennially thereafter (Ariz. Const. art.
7 § 11).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires the quarterly report filed by a political action committee or political party in a
calendar quarter without an election to be filed not later than the fifteenth day, rather than the
third Monday, of the month after the calendar quarter.
2. Requires the preelection report filed by a political action committee or political party in a
calendar quarter with an election to be filed not later than 15 days, rather than 10 days, before
the election.
3. Requires a candidate committee for a statewide candidate to file campaign finance reports as
follows:
a) a quarterly report, filed no later than the fifteenth of the month after the calendar quarter,
that is filed for each calendar quarter every year, rather than every calendar quarter for the
48-month period preceding a general election; and FACT SHEET
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b) a postprimary report that is complete through the primary election and is filed no later than
15 days after the primary election.
4. Requires a candidate committee for a legislative, county, city or town candidate to file
campaign finance reports as follows:
a) an annual report that is filed no later than the January 15 for each year that is not the year
of the general election for the office the candidate is seeking;
b) a quarterly report, filed no later than the fifteenth of the month after the calendar quarter,
that is filed for each calendar quarter in the year of the general election for the office the
candidate is seeking; and
c) a postprimary report that is complete through the primary election and that is filed no later
than 15 days after the primary election.
5. Specifies that for a city or town candidate, the year of the city's or town's second, runoff or
general election for the office the candidate is seeking, however designated by the city or town,
is deemed the general election for that candidate.
6. Specifies that for a city or town candidate the year of the city's or town's first or primary
election for the office the candidate is seeking, however designated by the city or town, is
deemed the primary election for that office.
7. Makes conforming changes.
8. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 17, 2025
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