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Committee probes campaign-finance language, resists lowering PAC formation threshold to one person
Summary
Legislation would change campaign finance disclosure rules to capture individuals spending to influence elections; committee members expressed concern about a proposed change that would define a PAC as a single person and asked staff and the secretary of state to draft clearer definitions and thresholds.
Committee members reviewed suggested edits from the secretary of state’s office to the bill’s campaign finance provisions and discussed how to capture individuals, organizations or groups that spend money to influence elections without creating unintended new rules for political action committees.
The secretary of state proposed language — reviewed with the attorney general’s office — intended…
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