S 1367 — CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND LOBBYISTS – Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to revise reporting requirements for lobbyists and to revise campaign finance requirements for candidates.

13671367, As Amended BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AN ACT RELATING TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE AND LOBBYISTS;

and (ii) Is broadcasted, printed, mailed, delivered, made or dis- tributed within thirty (30) days before a primary election or sixty (60) days before a general anthe candidate's election;

or (vi) References to legislators and legislative candidates dur- ing the period while the legislature is in session and scheduled to meet before a primary election.

or (b) Any any person who receives contributions and or makes expenditures in an amount exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,0500) in the current or any previous calendar year for the purpose of support- ing or opposing one (1) or more candidates or measures, until reports are no longer required pursuant to section 67-6607, Idaho Code, and the reporting account with the secretary of state is terminated.

(1) Each candidate or the political trea- surer for each candidate who receives contributions or makes expenditures in an amount exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) in the current or any previ - ous calendar year , and each political committee or the political treasurer of each political committee, and each person transmitting electioneering communications shall file with the secretary of state a statement report of all contributions received and all expenditures and encumbrances made by or on behalf of the candidate,candidate or political committee, or personin transmittingthe transmission of electioneering communications according to the schedule provided in this section.

The statement report shall list the full name and complete address of each person who contributed an ag-aggregate gregate amount of more than fifty dollars ($50.00) and the amount con- tributed by that person.

andprovided, (b)however, Underthat expenditures,for the statement report shall include the name and address of each personelectioneering tocommunication, whom an expenditure or encumbrance was made in the ancontributions amountreported ofshall twenty-fiveinclude exceedingonly fiftythose dollarsgiven ($2550.00)for or more, and the amount, date, and purpose of eachmaking suchthe expenditure.electioneering communication;

Eachand (b) Under expenditures, the statement report shall include the name and address of each person to whom an expenditure or encumbrance was made in the an amount of twenty-five exceeding fifty dollars ($2550.00) or moremore, shalland bethe evidencedamount, bydate, anand invoice,purpose receipt,of oreach canceledsuch checkexpenditure; or an accurate copy thereof.

pro- vided, however, that for each electioneering communication, the expen - ditures reported shall include only those done for the purpose of mak - ing the electioneering communication .

Each expenditure or encumbrance in the amount of twenty-five exceeding fifty dollars ($2550.00) or more shall be evidenced by an invoice, receipt, or canceled check or an accu- rate copy thereof.

The statement report may list as a single item the total amount of expendituresexpen- ditures and encumbrances of fifty dollars ($50.00) or less than twenty-fivetwenty- five dollars ($25.00) without showing the exact amount of or requiring evidence of each such expenditure or encum-encumbrance. brance.

The notification shall be in addiaddi- - tion to the reporting of these contributions in the regular reports.

That Section 67-6610,67-6610 , Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

That Chapter 66, Title 67, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTIONSECTION, , to be known and des- ignated as Section 67-6610, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:

Within three (3) months after the date of each election, the secretary of state shall examine such statement report filed pursuant to this chapter for statewide, legislative, and judicial district offices or measures, and the county clerk shall in- spect each statement report filed for all local government offices or mea- sures for which the county is the home county, as defined in section 34-1401, Idaho Code;,Code; and, referring to the election, determine whether the statement report conforms to law.

, and, referring to the election, determine whether the statement report conforms to law.