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House moves candidate disclosure date to late September, debates fines for late reporting
Summary
The House passed a first substitute to HB120 moving the candidate financial disclosure deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30 to provide voters more up‑to‑date information before mailed ballots are distributed; sponsors debated changing fine structure to a flat 15% (removing 'greater of $50 or 15%') and deferred deeper in‑session fixes to reporting of in‑kind contributions; the bill passed 66–4.
Representative Hall moved to suspend the constitutional three‑reading requirement and introduced the first substitute for HB120, a modification to election law that changes the candidate financial‑disclosure deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 30.
Hall said the change is intended to give voters more current information before mailed ballots are distributed roughly 30 days before Election Day. "This changes the reporting deadline from August 31 to September 30 so that the voters…
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