Sen. Matt Murphy

Filed: 3/13/2009

 

 


 

 


 
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AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1662

2     AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 1662 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
 
4     "Section 5. The Election Code is amended by changing
5 Section 9-3 as follows:
 
6     (10 ILCS 5/9-3)  (from Ch. 46, par. 9-3)
7     Sec. 9-3. Every state political committee and every local
8 political committee shall file with the State Board of
9 Elections, and every local political committee shall file with
10 the county clerk, a statement of organization within 10
11 business days of the creation of such committee, except any
12 political committee created within the 30 days before an
13 election shall file a statement of organization within 24 hours
14 via facsimile transmission or electronic mail 5 business days.
15 A political committee that acts as both a state political
16 committee and a local political committee shall file a copy of

 

 

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1 each statement of organization with the State Board of
2 Elections and the county clerk. The Board shall impose a civil
3 penalty of $25 per business day upon political committees for
4 failing to file or late filing of a statement of organization,
5 except that for committees formed to support candidates for
6 statewide office, the civil penalty shall be $50 per business
7 day. Such penalties shall not exceed $5,000, and shall not
8 exceed $10,000 for statewide office political committees.
9 There shall be no fine if the statement is mailed and
10 postmarked at least 72 hours prior to the filing deadline.
11     In addition to the civil penalties authorized by this
12 Section, the State Board of Elections or any other affected
13 political committee may apply to the circuit court for a
14 temporary restraining order or a preliminary or permanent
15 injunction against the political committee to cease the
16 expenditure of funds and to cease operations until the
17 statement of organization is filed.
18     For the purpose of this Section, "statewide office" means
19 the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State,
20 Attorney General, State Treasurer, and State Comptroller.
21     The statement of organization shall include -
22     (a) the name and address of the political committee (the
23 name of the political committee must include the name of any
24 sponsoring entity);
25     (b) the scope, area of activity, party affiliation,
26 candidate affiliation and his county of residence, and purposes

 

 

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1 of the political committee;
2     (c) the name, address, and position of each custodian of
3 the committee's books and accounts;
4     (d) the name, address, and position of the committee's
5 principal officers, including the chairman, treasurer, and
6 officers and members of its finance committee, if any;
7     (e) (Blank);
8     (f) a statement of what specific disposition of residual
9 fund will be made in the event of the dissolution or
10 termination of the committee;
11     (g) a listing of all banks or other financial institutions,
12 safety deposit boxes, and any other repositories or custodians
13 of funds used by the committee;
14     (h) the amount of funds available for campaign expenditures
15 as of the filing date of the committee's statement of
16 organization.
17     For purposes of this Section, a "sponsoring entity" is (i)
18 any person, political committee, organization, corporation, or
19 association that contributes at least 33% of the total funding
20 of the political committee or (ii) any person or other entity
21 that is registered or is required to register under the
22 Lobbyist Registration Act and contributes at least 33% of the
23 total funding of the political committee; except that a
24 political committee is not a "sponsoring entity" for purposes
25 of this Section if it is a political committee organized by (i)
26 an established political party as defined in Section 10-2, (ii)

 

 

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1 a partisan caucus of either house of the General Assembly, or
2 (iii) the Speaker or Minority Leader of the House of
3 Representatives or the President or Minority Leader of the
4 Senate, in his or her capacity as a legislative leader of the
5 House of Representatives or Senate and not as a candidate for
6 Representative or Senator.
7 (Source: P.A. 93-574, eff. 8-21-03; 93-615, eff. 11-19-03;
8 94-645, eff. 8-22-05.)".