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Senate committee hears AG adviser on legal risks of lowering campaign‑finance reporting threshold to $500
Summary
The Senate Committee on Government Operations heard testimony from an Assistant Attorney General that lowering or removing the reporting threshold for independent-expenditure political committees raises unresolved constitutional questions and could invite litigation; other states set lower or no thresholds, committee members said.
Assistant Attorney General Leslie Welch told the Senate Committee on Government Operations on May 21, 2025, that lowering or removing the reporting threshold for independent‑expenditure political committees raises unsettled constitutional questions and could prompt legal challenges.
Welch, who described herself to the committee as the assistant attorney general and chief of the general counsel of the Administrative Law Division, said the area is "an evolving area of law" and that the Attorney General’s Office must be cautious in giving definitive constitutional advice because it both enforces…
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