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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 613
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 421
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT
Introduced by:
SEN. BERTHEL, 32nd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT
COMMISSION AND QUALIFYING CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE
CITIZENS' ELECTION PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 157 of the general statutes be amended to require that 1
the State Elections Enforcement Commission, when reviewing the 2
application of a candidate committee for a grant from the Citizens' 3
Election Fund, provide to the treasurer of such candidate committee (1) 4
a list of each contribution to the candidate committee that said 5
commission has not deemed a qualifying contribution, (2) an 6
explanation for each such contribution of why said commission has not 7
deemed it a qualifying contribution, and (3) an opportunity to either (A) 8
cure the defect with the contribution so that it will be deemed a 9
qualifying contribution and accepted toward successful application for 10
such grant, or (B) refund such contribution to the contributor. 11
Statement of Purpose:
To require the State Elections Enforcement Commission to advise of
defects in contributions in applications for Citizens' Election Program Proposed Bill No. 613
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grants and to afford campaign treasurers opportunities to cure such
defects or return contributions to contributors.