HCR 2007 — clean elections; unlawful contributions; rulemaking

HCR2007 - 532R - HS Ver       HouseSenate Engrossed House Bill         State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session       HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 2007       A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION   enacting and ordering the submission to the people of a measure relating to the citizens clean elections act.

AN ACT amending sections 16-948,16-948 16‑956 and 16-959,16‑956, Arizona Revised Statutes;

2.  Except2.  A for a bona fide payment to a political party in exchange for voter files, a payment made directly or indirectly to a political party.  Forparty. the purposes of this paragraph, "voter file" means a list that is compiled by a political party and that contains information relating to the people who live and vote in a particular district.

END_STATUTE Sec. 3.  Section 16-959, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-959.  Inflationary and other adjustments of dollar values A.  Every two years, the secretary of state shall modify the dollar values specified in the following parts of this article, in the manner specified by section 16‑905, subsection H  16‑931, to account for inflation:

section 16‑941, subsection A, paragraph 2 or subsection D;

section 16‑942, subsection B;

section 16‑945, subsection A, paragraphs 1 and 2;

section 16‑948, subsection C  D;

section 16‑955, subsection G;

and section 16‑961, subsections G and H.  In addition, the secretary of state shall make a similar inflation adjustment by modifying the dollar values in section 16‑949, subsection A to reflect cumulative inflation since the enactment of this article.  In addition, every two years, the secretary of state shall change the dollar values in section 16‑961, subsections G and H in proportion to the change in the number of Arizona resident personal income tax returns filed during the previous calendar year.

B.  Based on the results of the elections in any quadrennial election after 2002, and within six months after such election, the commission may adopt rules in a public meeting reallocating funds monies available to all candidates between the primary and general elections by selecting a fraction for primary election spending limits that is between one-third and one-half of the spending limits for the election as a whole.  For each office, the primary election spending limit shall be modified to be the sum of the primary and general spending limits times the selected fraction, and the general election spending limit shall be modified to be the same sum times one less the selected fraction.