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HOUSE BILL 1312
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Wang, McLean and Anderson.
Read first time January 25, 1991. Referred to Committee on State Government.
AN ACT Relating to special reports for campaign contributions; amending RCW 42.17.105 and 42.17.175; and prescribing penalties.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 42.17.105 and 1989 c 280 s 11 are each amended to read as follows:
(1)
Campaign treasurers shall prepare and deliver to the commission a special
report regarding any contribution or aggregate of contributions which:
(((a))) Exceeds five hundred dollars; (((b))) is from a
single person or entity; (((c))) and is received ((before a
primary or general election; and
(d)
Is received: (i) After the period covered by the last report required by RCW
42.17.080 and 42.17.090 to be filed before that primary; or (ii) within
twenty-one days preceding that general election)) during
a special reporting period.
(((2)))
Any political committee making a contribution or an aggregate of
contributions to a single entity which exceeds five hundred dollars shall
also prepare and deliver to the commission the special report if the
contribution or aggregate of contributions is made ((before a primary
or general election and: (a))) during a special reporting period.
For the purposes of subsections (1) through (7) of this section:
(a)
Each of the following intervals is a special reporting period: (i) The
interval beginning after the period covered by the last report required by
RCW 42.17.080 and 42.17.090 to be filed before ((that)) a primary
and concluding on the end of the day before that primary; ((or (b)
within)) and (ii) the interval composed of the twenty-one days
preceding ((that)) a general election; and
(b) An aggregate of contributions includes only those contributions received from a single entity during any one special reporting period or made by the contributing political committee to a single entity during any one special reporting period.
(2) If a campaign treasurer files a special report under this section for one or more contributions received from a single entity during a special reporting period, the treasurer shall also file a special report under this section for each subsequent contribution of any size which is received from that entity during the special reporting period. If a political committee files a special report under this section for a contribution or contributions made to a single entity during a special reporting period, the political committee shall also file a special report for each subsequent contribution of any size which is made to that entity during the special reporting period.
(3)
Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, the special report
required by this section shall be delivered in written form, including but not
limited to mailgram, telegram, or nightletter. The special report required of
a contribution recipient by subsection (1) of this section shall be
delivered to the commission within forty-eight hours of the time, or on the
first working day after((,)): The contribution exceeding five
hundred dollars is received by the candidate or ((campaign))
treasurer; the aggregate received by the candidate or treasurer first
exceeds five hundred dollars; or the subsequent contribution that must be
reported under subsection (2) of this section is received by the candidate or
treasurer. The special report required of a contributor by
subsection (((2))) (1) of this section ((and)) or
RCW 42.17.175 shall be delivered to the commission, and the candidate or
political committee to whom the contribution ((is)) or contributions
are made, within twenty-four hours of the time, or on the first working day
after((,)): The contribution is made; the aggregate of
contributions made first exceeds five hundred dollars; or the subsequent
contribution that must be reported under subsection (2) of this section is made.
(4) The special report may be transmitted orally by telephone to the commission to satisfy the delivery period required by subsection (3) of this section if the written form of the report is also mailed to the commission and postmarked within the delivery period established in subsection (3) of this section.
(5) The special report shall include at least:
(a) The amount of the contribution or contributions;
(b) The date or dates of receipt;
(c) The name and address of the donor;
(d) The name and address of the recipient; and
(e) Any other information the commission may by rule require.
(6) Contributions reported under this section shall also be reported as required by other provisions of this chapter.
(7) The commission shall publish daily a summary of the special reports made under this section and RCW 42.17.175.
(8) It is a violation of this chapter for any person to make, or for any candidate or political committee to accept from any one person, contributions reportable under RCW 42.17.090 in the aggregate exceeding fifty thousand dollars for any campaign for state-wide office or exceeding five thousand dollars for any other campaign subject to the provisions of this chapter within twenty-one days of a general election. This subsection does not apply to contributions made by, or accepted from, a major Washington state political party as defined in RCW 29.01.090.
(9) Contributions governed by this section include, but are not limited to, contributions made or received indirectly through a third party or entity whether the contributions are or are not reported to the commission as earmarked contributions under RCW 42.17.135.
Sec. 2. RCW 42.17.175 and 1985 c 359 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
Any
lobbyist registered under RCW 42.17.150, any person who lobbies, and any
lobbyist's employer making a contribution or an aggregate of contributions
to a single entity that exceeds five hundred dollars during a special
reporting period before a primary or general election, as such period is
specified in RCW 42.17.105(1), shall file ((a)) one or more
special reports for the contribution or aggregate of contributions and for
subsequent contributions made during that period under the same circumstances
and to the same extent that a contributing political committee must file such a
report or reports under RCW 42.17.105. Such a special report shall be filed
in the same manner provided under RCW 42.17.105 ((if the contribution
is made before a primary or general election and: (1) After the period covered
by the last report required by RCW 42.17.080 and 42.17.090 to be filed before
that primary; or (2) within twenty-one days preceding that general election))
for a special report of a contributing political committee.