H.B.I

VETOES

implementation of the plan for the filing and maintenance in an electronic medium
of certain campaign finance reports: defining certain terms; requiring the State
Board to adopt certain regulations; and generally relating to the filing and
maintenance of certain campaign finance reports in an electronic medium
establishing a civil citation procedure for the adjudication of certain violations of the
State election law; providing for a civil penalty for certain violations of the Fair Election
Practices Act of the Election Code and specifying a maximum fine for such civil
violations; increasing the criminal fine for certain election law violations: authorizing the
State Prosecutor to prosecute certain election law violations; providing for original
jurisdiction of the District Court of the State for persons contesting a citation for a civil
infraction of certain fair election practice laws; providing for the disposition of certain
money collected by the court; altering the statute of limitations period for a prosecution
for violations of certain fair election practices laws and certain ethics laws; repealing a
certain statute of limitation provision; making certain stylistic changes; prohibiting the
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller, members of the
General Assembly, or persons acting on behalf of any of these individuals, from receiving
contributions, conducting a fund-raising event, or soliciting or selling tickets to an event,
during certain periods of time; providing certain exceptions; establishing a certain penalty
for certain violations of this prohibition; requiring that certain campaign finance reports
required to be filed by statewide candidates or their committees be submitted and
maintained by the State Administrative Board of Election Laws in an electronic storage
format beginning with a certain campaign finance report due by a certain date;
authorizing certain other campaign finance reports to be submitted and maintained by
the State Board in an electronic storage format beginning with a certain campaign
finance report due by a certain date; requiring all campaign finance reports filed with the
State Board to comply with certain electronic filing requirements by a certain dale;
requiring the State Board, after a certain date, to provide certain materials to persons
required to file certain campaign fund reports; requiring the State Board to make the
campaign finance report information that it maintains in an electronic storage format
available to the public; defining certain terms; requiring the State Board to adopt certain
regulations; providing that an official need not include as a gift on the financial
disclosure statement attendance at certain events that are otherwise reported by regulated
lobbyists; altering certain lobbyist reporting requirements as to certain functions to
include events to which all members of a county or regional delegation of the General
Assembly are invited; providing that a presiding officer of the Senate or House of
Delegates shall be deemed an ex officio member of a standing committee of the presiding
officer's chamber; expanding the prohibition against lobbyists from soliciting or
transmitting certain contributions to include the campaigns of the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Attorney General, and Comptroller and candidates for election to these
offices; prohibiting certain lobbyists from serving on certain fund-raising or political
committees; requiring the State Administrative Board of Election Laws to submit a
certain report to the Legislative Policy Committee, by a certain date, that includes a
certain plan and schedule for the full implementation of mandatory electronic filing for
certain purposes; and generally relating to fund-raising, disclosure, and enforcement
requirements under the campaign finance and ethics law.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article- Courts and Judicial Proceedings

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