CAMPAIGN FINANCE ACT REVISIONS                                                    H.B. 4446 (S-2):

                                                                                                    SUMMARY OF BILL

                                                                                     REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE

House Bill 4446 (Substitute S-2 as reported)

Sponsor:  Representative Julie Calley

House Committee:  Elections and Ethics

Ways and Means

Senate Committee:  Elections and Government Reform

CONTENT

The bill would amend the Michigan Campaign Finance Act to do the following: 

-- Allow a candidate committee or other committee to deposit the proceeds of a joint fund-raiser in a secondary depository for certain purposes.

-- Require a separate segregated fund to report certain information pertaining to payment for a prize.

-- Allow a connected organization to pay the actual costs related to mailing or shipping an item or prize for its separate segregated fund.

-- Specify that affirmative consent for contributions for a separate segregated fund on an automatic basis would expire upon revocation of the individual who provided it.

-- Modify provisions pertaining to contributions that could be transferred to a separate segregated fund.

-- Specify conditions for when a connected organization could make an in-kind contribution to pay costs for a prize.

-- Delete February 15 from the list of dates by which a ballot question campaign committee must file a campaign statement.

-- Allow an independent expenditure committee to indicate in a written statement that it did not expect in a calendar year to receive or spend more than $1,000.

-- Allow certain in-kind contributions and expenditures to be made by credit or debit card.

-- Extend to December 31, 2019 the deadline for which a political committee organized for the purpose of making independent expenditures would be considered an independent expenditure committee.

-- Modify various definitions.

MCL 169.204 et al.                                                 Legislative Analyst:  Stephen Jackson

FISCAL IMPACT

The bill would have no fiscal impact on State or local government.

Date Completed:  9-9-19                                                     Fiscal Analyst:  Joe Carrasco

This analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.