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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 640
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2480
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
SEN. LESSER, 9
th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND
CAMPAIGN FINANCE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 155 of the general statutes be amended to (1) define 1
"social media platform", (2) require that each social media platform that 2
displays an electioneering communication promoting the success or 3
defeat of any candidate provide a copy of such communication to the 4
State Elections Enforcement Commission along with the name of a 5
single point of contact for such communication, and (3) provide that, for 6
any such communication created by the social media platform and 7
displayed on such platform during the ninety-day period immediately 8
prior to a primary or election, there shall be a rebuttable presumption 9
that such communication is a contribution. 10
Statement of Purpose:
To regulate social media platforms for campaign finance purposes.