SB28 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Paul Sanford

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Campaign contributions, PAC to PAC transfers, prohibited, legislative intent, Sec. 17-5-15 am'd.

Summary

SB28 would prohibit transfers of campaign contributions between political action committees in Alabama.

What This Bill Does

The bill would amend state law to stop PACs from transferring money to other PACs. It would also ban contributing or allowing contributions to be made in someone else’s name (straw donations), with a specific exception that donations can still be solicited and used for expenditures to campaigns or officials and must be reported. Overall, it aims to limit how PACs can move money and how donations are made.

Who It Affects

• Political Action Committees (PACs) - may no longer transfer funds to other PACs; transfers are only allowed to a principal campaign committee.
• Donors and individuals - prohibited from making contributions in the name of another person or allowing their name to be used for such contributions (straw donors); there is a narrow exception for contributions used to fund expenditures to campaigns or officials that must be reported.

Key Provisions

• Section 1: Establishes legislative intent to pursue ethics and campaign finance reform by prohibiting transfers of campaign contributions between PACs.
• Section 2(a): It shall be unlawful for any person to make a contribution in the name of another person, or to permit their name to be used to effect such a contribution, or for a candidate, principal campaign committee, or PAC to knowingly accept such a contribution, with an exception allowing soliciting and receiving contributions for expenditures to campaigns or officials that must be reported under Section 17-5-8.
• Section 2(b): It shall be unlawful for any political action committee to make a contribution to any other political action committee, other than to a principal campaign committee.
• Section 3: The act becomes effective immediately following its passage and approval by the Governor (or otherwise becoming law).

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Subjects

Elections