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Senate advances sweeping campaign finance amendments including reporting deadline changes and foreign-contribution prohibition

Utah State Senate · February 11, 1997
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Summary

Senators debated and advanced first substitute S.B. 81, which tightens campaign-reporting deadlines (including a January 5 year-end filing), bars contributions by foreign nationals or foreign corporations, clarifies penalties and expands reporting requirements for legislative candidates.

First substitute S.B. 81 was presented as a package of changes to Utah's campaign-finance reporting laws, intended to improve transparency and to make enforcement work more practically. The sponsor summarized the major changes: (1) transform a postmarked-based deadline into a requirement that filings be received by the lieutenant governor's office on the due date; (2) add a September 15 interim report for legislative candidates in election years regardless of…

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