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Ethics Commission approves streamlined campaign finance amendments and a budget request to boost audits and e-filing
Summary
The San Francisco Ethics Commission voted to adopt a package of campaign finance ordinance amendments to align local rules with state and federal case law, streamline third‑party reporting and change disclaimer requirements, and approved a budget request to add investigative and audit staff and accelerate electronic filing.
The San Francisco Ethics Commission voted to adopt a set of amendments intended to simplify local campaign finance rules, align certain provisions with recent case law and improve third-party reporting and disclaimers ahead of the next election cycle.
Deputy Director Jesse Minardi told commissioners staff proposed three primary changes: repeal of certain contribution and aggregate limits that are unenforceable under recent rulings; a streamlined set of reporting forms and thresholds for third parties (including a $1,000-per-candidate 24-hour reporting threshold for independent expenditures and a $1,000 member-communication threshold); and a set of disclaimer updates that generally defer to state law while adding three local augmentations (a…
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