HB 0587 2003
   
1 A bill to be entitled
2          An act relating to campaign financing; requiring certain
3    organizations to file campaign finance disclosure reports;
4    providing requirements for the contents of, and for the
5    place and time of filing, such reports; providing an
6    effective date.
7         
8          Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
9         
10          Section 1. Independent expenditures by organizations;
11    reports.--
12          (1) Any organization that raises money for purposes of
13    making an independent expenditure in a political campaign must
14    file campaign finance disclosure reports that disclose the full
15    name, address, and occupation, if any, of each person who has
16    made one or more contributions to or for the organization within
17    the reporting period, together with the amount and date of such
18    contributions.
19          (2) The disclosure reports required under subsection (1)
20    must be filed with the Secretary of State, and the initial
21    report must be filed at the end of the calendar quarter in which
22    the organization first accepts a donation for such purposes.
23    Subsequent reports must be filed on the schedule applicable to
24    political candidates for office which is set forth in section
25    106.07, Florida Statutes.
26          Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.