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Treasurers and compliance experts back narrowing foreign-certification rule; PDC available for questions
Summary
House Bill 2,123’s proposed substitute would limit Washington’s foreign-certification requirement to larger activity; campaign treasurers urged eliminating or raising thresholds to reduce administrative burden, while staff and the PDC remained available to answer implementation questions.
OPR staff briefed House Bill 2,123 and the proposed substitute that would require candidates and committees to collect foreign-certification statements only when contributions or expenditures exceed an aggregate threshold (initially $5,500 in the substitute, with an amendment in the books changing the trigger to $6,000). Staff explained the substitute narrows the state requirement to match the practical risk tied to large independent expenditures and ballot…
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