The introduced measure would restrict how political committees use funds for candidates’ personal expenses and for certain spending shared with ballot question campaigns.
The introduced text would bar committees from using funds for candidates’ personal expenses and would limit certain spending and advertising between candidate and ballot question committees.
Committees would not be allowed to use committee funds for listed personal expenses or certain spending connected to another type of campaign. The restrictions cover candidate and ballot question committees, candidates, and their immediate families. They include personal expenses, debts, services, office needs, and certain goods, services, facilities, and advertisements shared between committees. Exceptions would apply to reportable campaign loans and reportable campaign services. A candidate or candidate committee could still state a position supporting or opposing a ballot question or initiative or referendum petition. Candidate committees could not use another committee's advertisement to obtain a lower advertising rate under the listed restriction. The introduced text gives no effective date. The measure was indefinitely postponed and is not in force based on the supplied status.
No hearings or votes scheduled.