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Senate committee directs draft to restore $500 registration threshold for candidates and PACs
Summary
The Vermont Senate Government Operations Committee instructed legislative counsel to draft language restoring a $500 registration and reporting threshold for candidates and independent-expenditure political committees after debate about a bill that would have removed monetary triggers.
MONTPELIER — The Senate Government Operations Committee on May 23 instructed legislative counsel to draft changes restoring a $500 registration and reporting threshold for candidates and independent-expenditure political committees after members debated language in H.474 that would have removed monetary triggers.
The change under consideration would make the registration and reporting trigger equal for candidates and political action committees, rather than lowering some thresholds to zero as earlier versions of the bill proposed. Committee members said the adjustment is intended to balance transparency with enforceability and public understanding.
Leslie Wells, assistant attorney general and…
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