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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 2132 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 822 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2021 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 2132 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION |
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| 11 | 11 | | AND ELECTIONS |
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| 14 | 14 | | Introduced by: |
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| 15 | 15 | | SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. |
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| 16 | 16 | | REP. MASTROFRANCESCO, 80th Dist. |
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| 21 | 21 | | AN ACT CONCERNING CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND PHOTO |
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| 22 | 22 | | IDENTIFICATION FOR VOTING. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 24 | 24 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 26 | 26 | | That general statutes be amended to (1) require that, if the treasurer 1 |
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| 27 | 27 | | of a candidate committee submits a contribution as part of an 2 |
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| 28 | 28 | | application for a grant under the Citizens' Election Program and the 3 |
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| 29 | 29 | | State Elections Enforcement Commission accordingly deems such 4 |
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| 30 | 30 | | contribution not to be a qualifying contribution, said commission shall 5 |
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| 31 | 31 | | return such contribution to such committee and such treasurer shall in 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | turn refund such contribution to the contributor, (2) require said 7 |
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| 33 | 33 | | commission to, prior to the day of an election, dismiss or issue a decision 8 |
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| 34 | 34 | | on any complaint filed with said commission alleging violation of any 9 |
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| 35 | 35 | | law relating to such election, (3) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, 10 |
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| 36 | 36 | | provide that no appropriation from the General Fund may be made to 11 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the Citizens' Election Fund until all outstanding reports required by law 12 |
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| 38 | 38 | | to be submitted by said commission to the intended recipients are so 13 |
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| 39 | 39 | | submitted, (4) provide that said commission shall be within the Office 14 Proposed Bill No. 822 |
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| 42 | 42 | | LCO No. 2132 2 of 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | of State Ethics, (5) permit treasurers of candidate committees to accept 15 |
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| 45 | 45 | | contributions through mobile applications, and (6) require the Secretary 16 |
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| 46 | 46 | | of the State to establish and implement procedures for auditing 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | statements signed by electors who do not present certain preprinted 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | forms of identification prior to voting at a polling place. 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 50 | 50 | | To (1) require that statements signed by electors, in lieu of presenting |
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| 51 | 51 | | certain identification at the polls, be audited for accuracy, and (2) make |
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| 52 | 52 | | several changes regarding campaign finance. |
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