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House passes wide-ranging campaign finance overhaul updating reporting, new committee types and modern practices
Summary
Lawmakers approved a comprehensive rewrite of campaign finance law to modernize reporting, recognize leadership committees and joint fundraising agreements, and require additional board reporting; the House passed the bill 77‑16 after floor amendments.
Lede The Louisiana House on May 20 approved a comprehensive overhaul of state campaign finance law to modernize disclosure, explicitly recognize contemporary campaign structures and tighten procedural safeguards for respondents to ethics complaints.
Nut graf House Bill 693, sponsored by Rep. Blake Wright, updates antiquated provisions, clarifies reporting obligations for leadership committees, joint‑fundraising agreements and independent‑expenditure entities, and requires the state ethics board to publish aggregated enforcement data. Supporters said…
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