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2025 Regular Session

House Bill 7093

AN ACT CONCERNING REFERENDA, INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES AND OTHER CAMPAIGN FINANCE CHANGES.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives on April 3, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) implement federal court rulings regarding independent expenditure political committees and contributions to such committees, (2) reflect federal case law on aggregate contribution limits for individuals, (3) more explicitly recognize referendum spending as a type of independent expenditure and make changes related to reporting and attribution requirements, (4) adjust a disclaimer requirement to address certain organization expenditures, (5) make a conforming change regarding the distribution of surplus funds by candidate committees participating in the Citizens' Election Program, (6) allow the State Elections Enforcement Commission additional time to investigate certain complaints, (7) establish in-state contributor requirements for state-wide candidates participating in said program, and (8) specify that individual contributions under said program may not exceed already-established contribution limits.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

Its course

February 27 to April 3, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action9 actions on 6 days

In the House of RepresentativesFeb 27 to Apr 3 · stopped35 days

Government Oversight CommitteeFeb 27 to Mar 1819 days

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Feb 27 – Mar 18

  1. Feb 27Introduced and sent to Government Oversight Committee
  2. Feb 28Heard in Government Oversight Committee
  3. Mar 18Government Oversight Committee recommended it
All 9 actions, as published
  1. Feb 27REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  2. Feb 28PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses
  3. Mar 18Joint FavorableBoth houses
  4. Mar 19FILED WITH LCOBoth houses
  5. Mar 28REFERRED TO OLR, OFABoth houses
  6. Apr 3RPTD. OUT OF LCOBoth houses
  7. Apr 3FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDARHouse of Representatives
  8. Apr 3HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBERHouse of Representatives
  9. Apr 3FILE NO.Both houses