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MI HB5929

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/16/2022

Primary Sponsor

Beau LaFave

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Origin

House of Representatives

101st Legislature

AI Summary

  • Modifies campaign statement reporting requirements to clarify that expenditures must identify whether they were made to individuals employed by the state.

  • Prohibits candidates and elected public officials from receiving wages from campaign accounts, political organization accounts, or other accounts subject to the campaign finance act.

  • Prohibits immediate family members (spouse, parent, brother, sister, son, or daughter) of candidates and elected officials from receiving wages from campaign accounts or related accounts.

  • Defines "wage" to exclude reimbursements for campaign expenditures and mileage.

  • Makes minor technical corrections to existing campaign finance statute language, including standardizing "electronic mail" to "email" and "shall" to "must."

Legislative Description

Campaign finance: campaign practices; wages paid to candidates for public office, elected officials, and their immediate family members; prohibit certain campaign account expenditures. Amends sec. 26 of 1976 PA 388 (MCL 169.226) & adds sec. 59.

Campaign finance: contributions and expenditures

Last Action

Bill Electronically Reproduced 03/17/2022

3/17/2022

Committee Referrals

Elections And Ethics3/16/2022

Full Bill Text

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