Kentucky Senate Bill 75 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-27 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for "accept" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted.

AN ACT relating to campaign finance.

Sen. Damon Thayer [R]

Sen. Robert Stivers [R]

Sen. Wil Schroder [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-27	Senate	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122)
2017-03-15	Senate	delivered to Governor
2017-03-15	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2017-03-15	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2017-03-15	Senate	received in Senate
2017-03-14	House	passed 52-43
2017-03-14	House	floor amendments (1) and (3) ruled out of order
2017-03-14	House	3rd reading
2017-03-07	House	floor amendments (2) and (3) filed
2017-03-07	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017
2017-03-07	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-03-06	House	floor amendment (1) filed
2017-03-06	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2017-02-28	House	posted in committee
2017-02-21	House	to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
2017-02-16	House	received in House
2017-02-15	Senate	3rd reading, passed 27-10 with Committee Substitute
2017-02-15	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017
2017-02-15	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2017-02-14	Senate	returned to State & Local Government (S)
2017-02-14	Senate	2nd reading
2017-02-14	Senate	taken from State & Local Government (S)
2017-02-13	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2017-02-13	Senate	1st reading
2017-02-13	Senate	taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2017-02-13	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB75.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/SCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA2.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA3.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB75/vote_history.pdf