Subcommittee reviews 2156 amendments: $200 threshold raised to $250, mailing addresses removed from public reports

Representative Vicki Steiner, chair of the Government and Veterans Affairs subcommittee, called the subcommittee on House Bill 2156 to order and led a staff-led review of recent amendments to the bill.

The subcommittee focused on several substantive changes: raising the reportability threshold from $200 to $250 across the bill, removing donors' mailing addresses from public reports while retaining city and state, adding two expenditure categories ("political donations" and "volunteer appreciation"), clarifying petition/initiative committee language, and changing reporting timelines to eliminate overlapping reporting periods. "What I did is I just took it back to existing law to change a couple things that you'd suggested," Steiner said as she walked members through her amendment.

Dustin Richards, attorney with Legislative Council, explained how the statutory definition of "ultimate and true source" would be…