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CA SB752
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires initiative, referendum, and recall petitions to include a disclosure statement instructing voters to sign only after viewing information about the top three funders paying for petition circulation, with specific formatting and type size requirements.
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Revises minimum contribution thresholds for "top contributors" from $20,000/$5,000 to $50,000/$10,000 for state measures/statewide candidates and state board candidates respectively, while requiring certain political advertisements to disclose top contributors without any minimum threshold.
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Establishes detailed disclosure requirements for political advertisements across different media types (video, print, radio, email, social media, text messages) specifying font sizes, colors, backgrounds, placement, and content formatting.
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Requires committees circulating state initiative petitions to submit "Official Top Funders" sheets to the Secretary of State, who must post them online with updated versions.
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Adds new section allowing merger of substantially similar local ordinance disclosure statements with state-required disclosures into a single statement.
Legislative Description
Elections: disclosure of contributors.
Last Action
August 26 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.
8/26/2021