CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 201Introduced by Assembly Member CervantesJanuary 14, 2019 An act relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 201, as introduced, Cervantes. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosure: mass text messages.The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. The act defines mass mailing to mean over two hundred substantially similar pieces of mail, and defines mass electronic mailing to mean sending more than 200 substantially similar pieces of electronic mail within a calendar month. The act prohibits a candidate or committee from sending a mass mailing or mass electronic mailing unless certain information regarding the source of the mailing is shown in or on the mailing, as specified. The act also prohibits a mass mailing from being sent at public expense if, among other things, the mailing features an elected officer affiliated with the agency that produces or sends the mailing, or includes the name, office, photograph, or other reference to the elected officer and is prepared or sent in cooperation, consultation, coordination, or concert with the elected officer.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 201Introduced by Assembly Member CervantesJanuary 14, 2019 An act relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 201, as introduced, Cervantes. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosure: mass text messages.The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. The act defines mass mailing to mean over two hundred substantially similar pieces of mail, and defines mass electronic mailing to mean sending more than 200 substantially similar pieces of electronic mail within a calendar month. The act prohibits a candidate or committee from sending a mass mailing or mass electronic mailing unless certain information regarding the source of the mailing is shown in or on the mailing, as specified. The act also prohibits a mass mailing from being sent at public expense if, among other things, the mailing features an elected officer affiliated with the agency that produces or sends the mailing, or includes the name, office, photograph, or other reference to the elected officer and is prepared or sent in cooperation, consultation, coordination, or concert with the elected officer.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20192020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill No. 201
Introduced by Assembly Member CervantesJanuary 14, 2019
Introduced by Assembly Member Cervantes
January 14, 2019
An act relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 201, as introduced, Cervantes. Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign disclosure: mass text messages.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. The act defines mass mailing to mean over two hundred substantially similar pieces of mail, and defines mass electronic mailing to mean sending more than 200 substantially similar pieces of electronic mail within a calendar month. The act prohibits a candidate or committee from sending a mass mailing or mass electronic mailing unless certain information regarding the source of the mailing is shown in or on the mailing, as specified. The act also prohibits a mass mailing from being sent at public expense if, among other things, the mailing features an elected officer affiliated with the agency that produces or sends the mailing, or includes the name, office, photograph, or other reference to the elected officer and is prepared or sent in cooperation, consultation, coordination, or concert with the elected officer.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
The Political Reform Act of 1974 provides for the comprehensive regulation of campaign financing and activities. The act defines mass mailing to mean over two hundred substantially similar pieces of mail, and defines mass electronic mailing to mean sending more than 200 substantially similar pieces of electronic mail within a calendar month. The act prohibits a candidate or committee from sending a mass mailing or mass electronic mailing unless certain information regarding the source of the mailing is shown in or on the mailing, as specified. The act also prohibits a mass mailing from being sent at public expense if, among other things, the mailing features an elected officer affiliated with the agency that produces or sends the mailing, or includes the name, office, photograph, or other reference to the elected officer and is prepared or sent in cooperation, consultation, coordination, or concert with the elected officer.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation establishing disclosure requirements for campaign-related mass text messages that include the name or image of a candidate for elective office or refer to a ballot measure.
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