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HB 6183 - Campaign Finance Law Amendments - Michigan Key Vote

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Title: Campaign Finance Law Amendments

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that requires corporations and joint stock companies making independent expenditures to provide additional information to be made public by the Secretary of State.

Highlights:

-Requires a corporation or joint stock company that makes an independent expenditure to submit a report to the Secretary of State at least 5 days before the date of the independent expenditure to be posted on the Secretary of State's website, and the report shall include the following information (Sec. 55A):

    -dates of the expenditure; -candidate to whom the communication funded by the expenditure refers; -amount of the expenditure; -name and address of the person to whom the expenditure will be paid; -name and address of the person filing the report; and -names and addresses of all contributors to the expenditure.
-Establishes that a corporation or joint stock company that makes an independent expenditure must place a specific disclaimer on the communication (Sec. 55A). -Specifies that this amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills are enacted into law: HB 6182, HB 6184, HB 6185, HB 6186, HB 6187, HB 6188 (Sec. 1).

NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.

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