HB2410 - 541R

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-912, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-912. Individual contribution limits; requirements

A. An individual may not contribute more than the following amounts per election cycle as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election:

1. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $390 to a candidate committee for city, town, county or district office.

2. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $488 to a candidate committee for legislative office.

3. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $1,010 to a candidate committee for statewide office.

B. An individual may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees not contribute more than an aggregate total of $5,610 in a calendar year to state and local candidate committees and political action committees that contribute to candidate committees.

C. An individual may only make contributions using personal monies, except that a contribution from an unemancipated minor child shall be treated as a contribution by the child's custodial parent or parents. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 16-913, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-913. Candidate committee contribution limits; requirements

A. A candidate committee shall not make contributions to a candidate committee for another candidate.

B. A candidate committee may transfer unlimited contributions to any one or more other candidate committees for that same candidate under the following conditions:

1. A candidate committee for a city or town candidate shall not transfer contributions to that same candidate's committee for a statewide or legislative office.

2. If a candidate committee for a city or town office transfers contributions to a candidate committee for a county office for that same candidate, the candidate committee for the county office shall not transfer contributions to a statewide or legislative candidate committee for that same candidate during the twenty-four months immediately following that transfer of contributions to the county candidate committee.

3. Contributions originally made to the transferring candidate committee are deemed to be contributions to the receiving candidate committee. On transfer, an individual's aggregate contributions to both candidate committees during the election cycle shall not exceed the individual's contribution limit for that candidate.

C. A candidate committee shall not accept contributions from all political action committees other than a political party as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election in more than the following amounts:

1. $10,020 to a candidate committee for city, town, county or district office.

2. $16,150 to a candidate committee for legislative office.

3. $100,110 to a candidate for statewide office.

D. A candidate committee for a candidate that is a political party nominee shall not accept contributions as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election from a political party in more than the following amounts:

1. $10,020 to a candidate committee for an office other than a statewide office.

2. $100,110 to a candidate committee for a statewide office.

C. E. A candidate committee shall not knowingly accept contributions in excess of the contribution limits prescribed by law. A candidate committee that unknowingly accepts an excess contribution shall refund or reattribute any excess contribution within sixty days after receipt of the contribution. A candidate committee may reattribute an excess contribution only if both of the following apply:

1. The excess contribution was received from an individual contributor.

2. The individual contributor authorizes the candidate committee to reattribute the excess amount to another individual who was identified as a joint account holder in the original instrument used to make the excess contribution.

D. F. A candidate committee may accept contributions only from an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.

E. G. A candidate committee may make unlimited contributions to a person other than a candidate's committee political party or to political action committees that make only independent expenditures.

F. H. A candidate may contribute unlimited personal monies to the candidate's own candidate committee. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Section 16-914, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-914. Political action committee contribution limits; requirements

A. A political action committee without mega PAC status may not contribute more than the following amounts per election cycle as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election:

1. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $390 to a candidate committee for city, town, county or district office.

2. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $488 to a candidate committee for legislative office.

3. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars $1,010 to a candidate committee for statewide office.

B. A political action committee with mega PAC status may contribute twice the amounts prescribed in subsection A of this section per election cycle as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election not more than the following amounts if the political action committee provides the recipient candidate committee a copy of the political action committee's certification of mega PAC status:

1. $2,000 to a candidate committee for an election other than an election for a statewide office.

2. $5,010 to a candidate committee for an election for a statewide office.

C. A political action committee may only contribute to a candidate committee using monies contributed by an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.

D. A political action committee may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees a political party and to political action committees that make only independent expenditures. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4. Section 16-915, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-915. Political party contribution limits; requirements

A. A political party may not contribute more than the following amounts per election cycle as an aggregate total for the combined primary and general election:

1. Ten thousand dollars $10,020 to the party's nominee for a city, town, county or district office.

2. Ten thousand dollars $10,020 to the party's nominee for legislative office.

3. One hundred thousand dollars $110,000 to the party's nominee for statewide office.

B. A political party may only contribute to nominees using monies contributed by an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.

C. A political party shall not contribute to candidate committees other than nominees.

D. A political party may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees and nominees. END_STATUTE

Sec. 5. Section 16-917, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-917. Partnership contributions

A. A partnership may not contribute monies in the name of the partnership. more than the following amounts per election cycle:

1. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for city, town, county or district office.

2. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for legislative office.

3. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for statewide office.

B. A partnership may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees.

C. Partnership contributions are subject to the following:

1. B. Partnership contributions shall be attributed to each contributing partner as designated by the partnership. The partnership shall provide the recipient committee written notice identifying the contributing partners and the amount attributed to each.

2. C. Partnership contributions shall count against both the partnership's and the individual partners' contribution limits to a recipient. The portion attributed to each partner shall be aggregated with the individual partner's nonpartnership contributions to that recipient and shall not exceed the individual partner's contribution limit.

3. D. The partnership shall not attribute any contribution to a partner that is a corporation, limited liability company or labor organization.

4. Partnership contributions need not be accompanied by the signature of each contributing partner.

D. A partnership may establish a separate segregated fund as prescribed in section 16‑916. END_STATUTE