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THE POLITICAL REFORM INITIATIVE OF 2009Prologue: The General Principals1. Initiative.
2. Findings and Declarations. The people of California find and declare as follows:
3. Purpose of Initiative. The people enact this initiative to accomplish the following purposes:
The Main points of the Political Reform Act of 2009: The First Point: There will be no individual or group contributions to political candidates or officeholders from any source other than individuals qualified and registered to vote in the election for that office, except as specified in the second point. The Second Point: Qualified political parties may contribute to the support of their state candidates. The contributions of qualified political parties to their candidates for office, or sitting officeholders, shall not exceed 30% of the contributions the candidates collect from individuals qualified to vote in the election for that office. The Third Point: Candidates and officeholders in California may not accept any gifts, of any type, from any sources, except from individuals qualified and registered to vote in the election for their office, and under the limits specified in California election law. The Fourth Point: The maximum individual contribution to any political party in California is five thousand dollars ($5000.) per year. The Fifth Point: Political action groups are encouraged to assemble freely, speak freely to the public, and advance their beliefs by petitioning any or all of our representatives. This initiative seeks to rebalance these rights of non-voting individuals and groups with the fundamental franchise right of the local voter to be assured that the candidates they select and the representatives they elect actally representative their interests. Therefore non-voters are prohibited from contributing any material aid or remuneration to any candidate or officeholder in California, except as specified above.
TEXT. THE POLITICAL REFORM INITIATIVE OF 2009: (The changes in the laws below are changes in the Political Reform Act. The full text of the Political Reform Act may be accessed at: http://www.fppc.ca.gov/index.html?id=51. This is a rather large PDF file. This is the full text of California's campaign finance laws. The changes below attempt to be an index of the regulations on the sources of contribution. Every effort was made to conform the text of the initiative to change the law to voter-only sourced contributions.) This initiative is designed to change the legal definition of contributors from “persons” to “People qualified and registered to vote in the election of the candidates to which they contribute.” The goal is to prohibit all outside contributions to political candidates, except from voters qualified and registered to vote in the election for that office, while simultanously maintaining political party contributions, but limiting political party contributions to one-third of the total of qualified voter's contributions. In pursuit of this goal, the reform Initiative of 2009 makes the following changes to California Elections Codes. Bold underlined sections are the changes the Initiative makes to the Codes.
Chapter 5. Limitations on Contributions. Article 3. Contribution Limitations. 85301. Limits on Contributions from Persons. 85301. (a) Shall now read: A person, qualified to vote in the election for that office, other than a political party committee, may not make to any candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office, and a candidate for elective state office other than a candidate for statewide elective office may not accept from a person, any contribution totaling more than three thousand dollars (3,000) per election. 85301. (b) Shall now read: Except to a candidate for governor, a person qualified to vote in the election for that office, other than a political party committee, may not make to any candidate for statewide elective office, and except a candidate for Governor,…(the text continues unmodified to the end of the paragraph.) 85301. (c) Shall now read: A person, qualified to vote in the election for that office, other than a small political party committee may not make to any candidate for Governor, and a candidate for governor may not accept from any person other than a small contributor committee or political party committee, and contribution totaling more than seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per election.
85302. Limits on Contributions from Small Contributor Committees. 85302. (a) Shall now read: A small contributor committee may not make any contributions to any candidates for elective state office. Small contributor committees are restricted to issue advocacy. 85302. (b) is deleted. 85302. (c) is deleted.
85303. Limits on Contributions to Committees and Political Parties. 85303. (b) Shall now read: A person may not make to any politicaly party committee, and a political party committee may not accept, and contribution totaling more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) per calendar year for the purpose of making contributions for the support or defeat of candidates for elective state office. Political parties may contribute, and candidates may receive, no more than 30% of the candidate's total contributions received from qualified voters in the election. Notwithstanding Section 85312, this limit applies to contributions made to a political party used for the purpose of making expenditures at the behest of a candidate for elective state office for communications to party members related to the candidate's candidacy for elective state office
Chapter 5. Limitations on Contributions. Article 7. Additional Contribution Requirements. 85702. Contributions from lobbyists. 85702. Shall now read: An elected state officer or candidate for elected state office may not accept a contribution from a lobbyist, and a lobbyist may not make a contribution to an elected state officer or candidate for elected state office. (A period is added here and the rest of the paragraph is deleted.).
Chapter 9.5. Ethics. Article 2. Gifts. 89503. Gift Limits. 89503. (a) Shall now read: No elected state officer, elected officer of a local government agency, or other individual specified in Section 87200 shall accept gifts from any source other than persons qualified to vote in the election for that office they hold, and shall not accept gifts from any single source in any calendar year with a total value of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250). 89503. (b) Shall now read: (b)(1) No candidate for elective state office, for judicial office, or for elective office in a local government agency shall accept gifts from any source other than persons qualified to vote in the election for that office, and any single source in any calendar year with a total value of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250). (The text continues unmodified to the end of the paragraph.). 89503. (c) Shall now read: No member of a state board or commission or designated employee of a state or local government agency shall accept gifts from any (single) source in any calendar year with a total value of more than two hundred fifty ($250) if the member or employee would be required to report the receipt of income or gifts from that source on his or her statement of economic interests. (The highlighted text is deleted from the original text.) Chapter 9.5. Ethics. Article 4. Campaign Funds. 89510. Acceptable Contributions. 89510. (c) This section, section (c) is an addition, and Shall read: A candidate for elective state office may only accept contributions from people qualified to vote in the election for that office. Only voters registered and qualified to vote in an election may contribute to candidates in that election.
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