Senate Amendment 1
S 593 - Session 119 (2011-2012)
Revise definitions of certain terms relating to campaigns
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    Senator SHEHEEN proposed the following amendment (JUD0593.001):
    Amend the bill, as and if amended, page 1, beginning on line 22, by striking SECTION 1 in its entirety and inserting therein the following:
/         SECTION     1.     A. Section 8-13-1300(6) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 76 of 2003, is further amended to read:
    "(6)     'Committee' means an association, a club, an organization, or a group of persons which, to influence the outcome of an, the major purpose of which is to support or oppose the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office, that receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars in the aggregate during an election cycle. It also means a person who, to influence the outcome of an elective office, makes:
        (a)     contributions aggregating at least twenty-five thousand dollars during an election cycle to or at the request of a candidate or a committee, or a combination of them; or
        (b)     independent expenditures aggregating five hundred dollars or more during an election cycle for the election or defeat of a candidate.
    'Committee' includes a party committee, a legislative caucus committee, a noncandidate committee, or a committee that is not a campaign committee for a candidate but that is organized for the purpose of influencing an election and has as its major purpose the support of or opposition to the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office and expends in excess of fifty percent of its available funds for that support or opposition."

B.     Section 8-13-1300(23) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 6 of 1995, is further amended to read:
    "(23)     'Noncandidate committee' means a committee that: (a) is not a campaign committee for a candidate but is organized to influence an election or to support or oppose a candidate or public official, (b) receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars in the aggregate during an election cycle, and (c) has as its major purpose the support of or opposition to the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office and expends in excess of fifty percent of its available funds for that support or opposition. 'Noncandidate committee' does not include political action committees that contribute solely only to federal campaigns."
C.     Section 8-13-1300(32) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 76 of 2003, is amended to read:
    "(32)     'Ballot measure committee' means:
        (a)     an association, club, an organization, or a group of persons which, to influence the outcome of a ballot measure,; which receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars in the aggregate during an election cycle; and which has as its major purpose the support of or opposition to the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office and expends in excess of fifty percent of its available funds for that support or opposition.
        (b)     a person, other than an individual, who, to influence the outcome of a ballot measure, makes contributions aggregating at least fifty thousand dollars during an election cycle to or at the request of a ballot measure committee; or
        (c)     a person, other than an individual, who, to influence the outcome of a ballot measure, makes independent expenditures aggregating two thousand five hundred dollars or more during an election cycle."
D.     Section 8-13-1300 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding an item to read:
    "(35)     'Independent expenditure committee' means an association, a club, an organization, a group of persons or a person, the major purpose of which is to support or oppose the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office, that makes independent expenditures in excess of five thousand dollars in the aggregate during an election cycle, and that has as its major purpose the support of or opposition to the nomination or election of a candidate to elective office and expends in excess of fifty percent of its available funds for that support or opposition."         /

    Renumber sections to conform.
    Amend title to conform.