H.B. 19 Enrolled

ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND CHECKOFF
AMENDMENTS
2002 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Craig W. Buttars
This act modifies tax code provisions governing requirements for the Election Campaign
Fund and makes technical corrections.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
59-10-548, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 2, Laws of Utah 1987
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 59-10-548 is amended to read:
59-10-548. Election Campaign Fund -- Contents -- Disbursement and distribution
-- Limitations on expenditures -- Violations.
(1) (a) There is established in the State Trust and Agency Fund provided for under Section
51-5-4 a trust fund to be known as the Election Campaign Fund. [This]
(b) The fund shall consist of all amounts deposited to it as provided in Section 59-10-547 .
(2) [The state treasurer shall on] On or before four months after the due date of the returns
required by this chapter [as to] in which designations of payment to the fund have been made
[make disbursements from the fund as follows], the state treasurer shall:
(a) [One-half of] disburse that portion of the amounts deposited in the fund since the last
disbursement that were designated for [any given] a political party [shall be disbursed] to the [state
central committee of that] political party[.] to which they were designated; and
[(b) The balance of this portion shall be distributed to the respective county central
committees of that party in the direct relationship that the number of taxpayers who designated that
amounts be paid into the fund for that party residing in any county bears to the total number of
such taxpayers who made designations for that party in the state.]
(b) provide to the political party a list disclosing, for each county, the total amount
designated by taxpayers in that county.

[(3) Each state central committee and county central committee which receives
disbursements from the fund shall establish a separate account for these disbursements. Payments
from any of these accounts shall only be made upon explicit authorization, as to each payment, from
a duly convened meeting of the applicable central committee, which duty of authorization is not
delegable. Any person violating this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person has
standing to enjoin any violation of it. ]

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