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Committee creates working group to study centralizing local campaign finance filings
Summary
Senate File 828 would create a working group to study whether local candidate campaign finance reports should be filed centrally with the Campaign Finance Board; the committee adopted a fiscal amendment and ultimately re‑referred the bill to the Rules Committee.
Senate File 828, sponsored by Senator Sandra Bolden, would establish a working group to study whether local candidate campaign finance reports (counties, municipalities, school districts and other political subdivisions) should be filed centrally with the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board (CFB) rather than with the variety of local filing officers now handling the task. The State and Local Government Committee adopted an amendment to clarify membership and fiscal details, amended the fiscal assumptions and ultimately re‑referred the bill to the Rules Committee.
Bolden said the working group’s purpose is to evaluate where local campaign reports should be filed and…
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