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CA SB752

Bill

Status

Engrossed

6/3/2021

Primary Sponsor

Benjamin Allen

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Origin

Senate

2021-2022 Session

AI Summary

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Appropriations6/30/2021
Elections6/10/2021
Appropriations4/26/2021
Elections and Constitutional Amendments3/18/2021
Rules2/19/2021

Full Bill Text

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