SB 5270 - DIGEST

Modifies certain dates and timelines for primaries for general elections, elections for precinct committee officers, special elections and resolutions calling for them, adjustments to the division of election precincts or precinct boundaries, declarations of candidacy, and filling vacancies of the state's congress members.

Prohibits a state official or a person employed by or acting on behalf of a state official or legislator, during the period beginning on the date a special legislative session convenes and continuing through the date that session adjourns, from soliciting or accepting contributions to a public office fund, to a candidate or authorized committee, or to retire a campaign debt, from: (1) A registered lobbyist;

(2) A registered employer of a lobbyist; or

(3) A political committee sponsored by a lobbyist or lobbyist's employer.