REFERENCE TITLE: campaign finance report; due date

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

SB 1355

 

Introduced by

Senators Livingston: Townsend

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 16-927, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaign CONTRIBUTIONS and expenses.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-927, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-927. Campaign finance reporting period

A. A political action committee and political party shall file a campaign finance report covering each reporting period as follows:

1. For a calendar quarter without an election, the political action committee or political party shall file a quarterly report. The quarterly report shall be:

(a) Filed not later than the fifteenth day third Monday in the month after the calendar quarter.

(b) Complete through the last day of the calendar quarter.

2. For a calendar quarter with an election, the political action committee or political party shall file a preelection and postelection report as follows:

(a) A preelection report shall be:

(i) Filed not later than ten days before the election.

(ii) Complete from the first day of the applicable calendar quarter through the seventeenth day before the election.

(b) A postelection report shall be:

(i) Filed not later than the fifteenth day after the applicable calendar quarter.

(ii) Complete from the sixteenth day before the election through the last day of the applicable calendar quarter.

B. A candidate committee shall file a campaign finance report only during the four calendar quarters comprising the twelve-month period preceding the general election for the office for which the candidate is seeking election, or for cities and towns, the city's or town's second, runoff or general election, however designated by the city or town. The reporting period for a candidate committee's first campaign finance report of the election cycle shall include the entire election cycle to date.

C. A committee shall file campaign finance reports until terminated. END_STATUTE