Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1491.3 – Principal campaign committees; subsidiary committees; consolidation of reports
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1491.3
- Candidate: means a person who seeks nomination or election to public office, except the office of president or vice president of the United States, presidential elector, delegate to a political party convention, United States senator, United States congressman, or political party office. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- committee: means two or more persons, other than a husband and wife, and any legal entity organized for the primary purpose of supporting or opposing one or more candidates, propositions, recalls of a public officer, or political parties, which accepts contributions in the name of the committee, or makes expenditures from committee funds or in the name of the committee, or makes a transfer of funds to or receives a transfer of funds from another committee, or receives or makes loans in an aggregate amount in excess of five hundred dollars within any calendar year. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Contribution: except as otherwise provided in this Chapter, means a gift, conveyance, payment, or deposit of money or anything of value, or the forgiveness of a loan or of a debt, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Expenditure: means a purchase, payment, advance, deposit, or gift, of money or anything of value made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Loan: means a transfer of money, property, or anything of value in exchange for an obligation to repay in whole or in part, made for the purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination for election, or election, of any person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Principal campaign committee: means a political committee designated by a candidate pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Subsidiary committee: means a political committee other than a principal campaign committee, designated by a candidate or by a principal campaign committee pursuant to La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Supervisory committee: means the Board of Ethics established in La. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
- Transfer of funds: means any money, regardless of amount, received by a committee from another committee or money given by a committee to another committee. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1483
A. Each candidate may designate one political committee as his principal campaign committee. Such designation shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall be filed with the supervisory committee no later than ten days after such designation is made. Any committee which designates subsidiary committees shall be a principal campaign committee and shall file a self-designation as a principal campaign committee with the supervisory committee at the time it first files a designation of a subsidiary committee. A principal campaign committee of a candidate shall report, in lieu of the candidate, all information required to be reported by the candidate pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 18:1495.4 and La. Rev. Stat. 18:1495.5.
B. A candidate or a committee which supports or has supported only one candidate may designate additional political committees as subsidiary committees of such candidate or committee.
C. Any committee, except a principal campaign committee, which is organized to support a single candidate shall be a subsidiary committee of the candidate or of the candidate’s principal campaign committee unless the candidate files a statement in writing with the supervisory committee that the committee is not his subsidiary committee or a subsidiary of his principal campaign committee and unless he files such a statement the candidate or his principal campaign committee shall designate any such committee as a subsidiary committee within ten days after such committee is organized. No candidate shall file a statement that a committee is not his subsidiary committee or a subsidiary committee of his principal campaign committee if the candidate, his principal campaign committee, or a subsidiary committee of the candidate or of his principal campaign committee makes an expenditure, a loan, or a transfer of funds to or receives a contribution, a loan, or a transfer of funds, from the committee.
D. No committee organized primarily for the purpose of supporting a single candidate shall nominally support an additional candidate or candidates for the purpose of avoiding designation as a subsidiary committee and the requirements of this Part relating to the records and reports of subsidiary committees. Any committee which violates the provisions of this Subsection shall be subject to the penalties provided in La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.4, La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.5, and La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.6.
E. A designation of a subsidiary committee shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall be filed with the supervisory committee no later than ten days after the designation is made. Any candidate who has designated a principal campaign committee shall also file a copy of the designation of each subsidiary committee with his principal campaign committee no later than ten days after the designation is made.
F. A political committee may not be designated as the principal campaign committee of more than one candidate. No political committee which supports or has supported more than one candidate may be designated as a principal campaign committee and no such committee shall be a subsidiary committee.
G.(1) Each subsidiary committee shall maintain all records required by this Part. Each subsidiary committee designated by a candidate shall furnish such records on a timely basis to the principal campaign committee of the candidate, if any, or if none, to the candidate by whom it was designated as a subsidiary committee. Each subsidiary committee designated by a principal campaign committee shall furnish such records on a timely basis to such principal campaign committee.
(2) Each principal campaign committee of a candidate shall receive records furnished to it by subsidiary committees of the candidate for which it is the principal campaign committee and shall consolidate them with its own records and records of the candidate and shall file with the supervisory committee a consolidated report for each report required by this Chapter for committees or candidates. Each principal campaign committee, other than a principal campaign committee of a candidate, shall receive all records furnished to it by its subsidiary committees and shall consolidate them with its own records and shall file with the supervisory committee a consolidated report for each report required by this Part for committees.
Acts 1980, No. 786, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1981.