SB 75 Kentucky Senate · 2017 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to campaign finance. Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for "accept" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted.

Bill status signed all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Feb 2017
Senate Passage
Mar 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Feb 13, 2017 Signed Mar 27, 2017
Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
26
Key actions
5
Committee
5
Amendments
3
Mar 27, 2017
Signed into law
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122)
legislature
Mar 14, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Passed 52-43
legislature
Mar 14, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendments (1) and (3) ruled out of order
legislature
Mar 7, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendments (2) and (3) filed
legislature
Mar 6, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (1) filed
legislature
Feb 28, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
legislature
Feb 21, 2017
Committee
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
legislature
Feb 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
legislature
Feb 13, 2017
Committee
To State & Local Government (S)
legislature
Feb 13, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Taken from Committee on Committees (S)
legislature
Feb 13, 2017
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
legislature
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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