§ 2971. Report of mass media activities
(a)(1) In addition to any other reports required to be filed under this chapter, a person
who makes expenditures for any one mass media activity totaling $500.00 or more, adjusted
for inflation pursuant to the Consumer Price Index as provided in section 2905 of
this chapter, within 45 days before a primary, general, county, or local election
shall, for each activity, file a mass media report with the Secretary of State and
send a copy of the report to each candidate whose name or likeness is included in
the activity without that candidate’s knowledge.
(2) The copy of the mass media report shall be sent by e-mail to each such candidate who
has provided the Secretary of State with an e-mail address on his or her consent form
and to any other such candidate by mail.
(3) The mass media report shall be filed and the copy of the report shall be sent within
24 hours of the expenditure or activity, whichever occurs first. For the purposes
of this section, a person shall be treated as having made an expenditure if the person
has executed a contract to make the expenditure.
(b) The report shall identify the person who made the expenditure; the name of each candidate
whose name or likeness was included in the activity; the amount and date of the expenditure;
to whom it was paid; and the purpose of the expenditure.
(c) If the activity occurs within 45 days before the election and the expenditure was
previously reported, an additional report shall be required under this section.
[Subsection (d) as amended by 2015, No. 30, § 37; see also subsection (d) as contingently amended by 2013, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 4 set out below.]
(d)(1) In addition to the reporting requirements of this section, an independent expenditure-only
political committee that makes an expenditure for any one mass media activity totaling
$5,000.00 or more, adjusted for inflation pursuant to the Consumer Price Index as
provided in section 2905 of this chapter, within 45 days before a primary, general,
county, or local election shall, for each such activity and within 24 hours of the
expenditure or activity, whichever occurs first, file an independent expenditure-only
political committee mass media report with the Secretary of State and send a copy
of the report to each candidate whose name or likeness is included in the activity
without that candidate’s knowledge.
(2) The copy of the mass media report shall be sent by e-mail to each such candidate who
has provided the Secretary of State with an e-mail address on his or her consent form
and to any other such candidate by mail.
(3) The report shall include all of the information required under subsection (b) of this
section, as well as the names of the contributors, dates, and amounts for all contributions
in excess of $100.00 accepted since the filing of the committee’s last report.
[Subsection (d) as contingently amended by 2013, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 4; see also subsection (d) as amended by 2015, No. 30, § 37 set out above..]
(d) [Repealed.] (Added 2013, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Jan. 23, 2014; amended 2013, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 4, cont. eff; 2015, No. 30, § 37, eff. May 26, 2015.)