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AB 1148 - Requires Political Advertisements to Disclose Funding Sources - Key Vote
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Legislation - Bill Failed (House) (52-26) - Jan. 31, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Requires Political Advertisements to Disclose Funding Sources
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that requires political advertisements to disclose the identities of their top donors.
Highlights:
- Requires all political advertisements that are authorized by a candidate to include a statement in which the candidate identifies himself or herself and states that he or she has approved the message (Secs. 9 & 10).
- Requires all political advertisements that are not authorized by a candidate to disclose the names of the top 3 identifiable contributors who made the largest cumulative donations to the committee that paid for the advertisement (Secs. 9 & 11).
- Defines “advertisement” as any public advertisement authorized and paid for by a person or committee for the purpose of supporting or opposing a candidate for elective office or a ballot measure (Sec. 3).
- Defines “identifiable contributors” as donors who contributed $10,000 or more (Sec. 3).
- Requires television and video advertisements to display the disclosure on a full screen without audio on a black background for a minimum of 3 seconds and to include the corporate logos of the contributors, if applicable (Sec. 11).
- Specifies that if the committee funding the advertisement does not have any identifiable contributors but has received cumulative contributions totaling at least $10,000, the disclosure shall be adjusted to include the name of the committee instead of the names of identifiable contributors (Secs. 9 & 10).
- Requires any committee funding a political advertisement to disclose its top 5 identifiable contributors on an Internet website (Sec. 12).
- Requires the name of any candidate or ballot measure appearing in a slate mailer to be marked with an asterisk if the slate mailer organization has received payment for its inclusion (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 18, 2011
Title: Requires Political Advertisements to Disclose Funding Sources
Sponsors
- Julia Brownley (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Luis A. Alejo (CA - D)
- Michael Allen (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tom Ammiano (CA - D)
- James T. 'Jim' Beall Jr. (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susan A. Bonilla (CA - D)
- Steven C. Bradford (CA - D)
- Joan T. Buchanan (CA - D)
- Betsy Butler (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Eng (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mike Feuer (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul Fong (CA - D)
- Richard S. 'Rich' Gordon (CA - D)
- Loni Hancock (CA - D)
- Mary Hayashi (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Roger Hernandez (CA - D)
- Gerald A. 'Jerry' Hill (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jared William Huffman (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mark R. Leno (CA - D)
- Fiona Ma (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Holly J. Mitchell (CA - D)
- Bill W. Monning (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Fran J. Pavley (CA - D)
- John A. Pérez (CA - D)
- Anthony J. Portantino Jr. (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Nancy Skinner (CA - D)
- Sandré R. Swanson (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert A. 'Bob' Wieckowski (CA - D)
- Das Williams (CA - D)
- Mariko Yamada (CA - D)
- Leland Yee (CA - D)
