H.B. 19

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ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND CHECKOFF
2 AMENDMENTS
3 2002 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Craig W. Buttars
6 This act modifies tax code provisions governing requirements for the Election Campaign
7 Fund and makes technical corrections.
8 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
9 AMENDS:
10 59-10-548, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 2, Laws of Utah 1987
11 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
12 Section 1. Section 59-10-548 is amended to read:
13 59-10-548. Election Campaign Fund -- Contents -- Disbursement and distribution
14 -- Limitations on expenditures -- Violations.
15 (1) (a) There is established in the State Trust and Agency Fund provided for under Section
16 51-5-4 a trust fund to be known as the Election Campaign Fund. [This]
17 (b) The fund shall consist of all amounts deposited to it as provided in Section 59-10-547 .
18 (2) [The state treasurer shall on] On or before four months after the due date of the returns
19 required by this chapter [as to] in which designations of payment to the fund have been made
20 [make disbursements from the fund as follows], the state treasurer shall:
21 (a) [One-half of] disburse that portion of the amounts deposited in the fund since the last
22 disbursement that were designated for [any given] a political party [shall be disbursed] to the [state
23 central committee of that] political party[.] to which they were designated; and
24 [(b) The balance of this portion shall be distributed to the respective county central
25 committees of that party in the direct relationship that the number of taxpayers who designated that
26 amounts be paid into the fund for that party residing in any county bears to the total number of
27 such taxpayers who made designations for that party in the state.]

28 (b) provide to the political party a list disclosing, for each county, the total amount
29 designated by taxpayers in that county.
30 [(3) Each state central committee and county central committee which receives
31 disbursements from the fund shall establish a separate account for these disbursements. Payments
32 from any of these accounts shall only be made upon explicit authorization, as to each payment,
33 from a duly convened meeting of the applicable central committee, which duty of authorization
34 is not delegable. Any person violating this subsection is guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person
35 has standing to enjoin any violation of it. ]




Legislative Review Note
as of 10-29-01 3:17 PM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

Committee Note

The Government Operations Interim Committee recommended this bill.