Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1491.1 – A. Each political committee, including a subsidiary committee, which knows or anticipates that it will receive contributions or loans, make expenditures or loans, or make a transfer
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 18:1491.1
- 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
- Chairman: means the principal executive officer of a political committee regardless of his title. 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
- Election: means any primary, general, or special election held, pursuant to the laws of this state or a parish or municipal charter or ordinance or a court order, to choose a public officer or nominee. 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 political committee, including a subsidiary committee, which knows or anticipates that it will receive contributions or loans, make expenditures or loans, or make a transfer of funds to or receive a transfer of funds from another committee during a calendar year in the aggregate amount exceeding five hundred dollars shall file a statement of organization with the supervisory committee annually after January 1 and no later than January 31 of each calendar year. Any such committee organized after January 31 shall file the required statement of organization no later than the tenth day after its organization. Any committee which, after January 31, knows or anticipates that it will receive contributions, loans, or transfers of funds or make expenditures, loans, or transfers of funds in the aggregate in excess of five hundred dollars during the calendar year shall file the required statement of organization within ten days after the date on which it has information which causes it to know or anticipate that it will receive such contributions, loans, or transfers of funds or make such expenditures, loans, or transfers of funds. If a political committee which knows or anticipates that it will receive contributions, loans, or transfers of funds or make expenditures, loans, or transfers of funds in the aggregate in excess of five hundred dollars during a calendar year, is organized within ten days prior to any election, it shall file the statement of organization required by this Section no later than the third day after such organizing. Any committee required to file supplemental reports under the provisions of La. Rev. Stat. 18:1491.6 shall file the annual statement of organization. The supervisory committee shall issue a certificate of registration to each committee which submits the statement required by this Subsection.
B. The statement of organization shall include:
(1) The name of the committee, and the address of the committee, or of its chairman if the committee has no address.
(2) The names, addresses, and relationships of affiliated organizations.
(3) The name and address of the campaign treasurer of the committee, if any, and of any deputy campaign treasurers of the committee.
(4) The name and address of the committee chairman and the name, address, and position of other principal officers and directors of the committee, if any.
(5)(a) A statement, if applicable, that the committee is a principal campaign committee and the candidate by whom it is designated as a principal campaign committee, if any, or a statement, if applicable, that the committee is a subsidiary committee and the committee or candidate by whom it is designated as a subsidiary committee.
(b) A statement, if the committee is organized to support a single candidate and if applicable, that the committee is not the principal or subsidiary committee of the candidate and a certification by the committee that the committee is not working and will not work in coordination, consultation, or cooperation with the candidate.
(c) A statement, if applicable, that the committee is organized solely to make independent expenditures and a certification by the committee that the committee is not and will not make contributions, whether direct or in-kind as defined in La. Rev. Stat. 18:1483, in contravention of provisions of this Chapter.
(6) A listing of all banks, safety deposit boxes, or other depositories used for committee funds.
(7) The estimated number of members of the committee.
(8) Certification of membership as required by La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.2(H)(2)(b), if applicable.
(9) A statement, if applicable, that the committee has elected to file monthly reports pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 18:1491.6(I).
C. Any change in information previously submitted in the annual statement of organization shall be reported to the supervisory committee within ten days following the change.
D. No committee shall receive contributions or loans, make expenditures or loans or make a transfer of funds to or receive a transfer of funds from another committee in the aggregate in excess of five hundred dollars in any calendar year until it has filed the annual statement of organization required by this Section. Any committee which violates the provisions of this Subsection shall be subject to the penalties provided in La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.5 and La. Rev. Stat. 18:1505.6.
E. The supervisory committee is hereby authorized to impose a fee not to exceed the amount of one hundred dollars for each statement required to be filed under this Section to be remitted to the supervisory committee together with the statement on or before the time the statement is required to be filed. Any statement submitted without the proper fee shall be deemed as not being properly submitted to the supervisory committee. All fees collected hereunder shall be used solely by the supervisory committee for the enforcement of the provisions of this Chapter, as appropriated by the legislature.
F. If the supervisory committee receives a statement pursuant to Subparagraph (B)(5)(b) of this Section, the supervisory committee shall immediately notify the affected candidate of his obligations pursuant to La. Rev. Stat. 18:1491.3(C).
Acts 1980, No. 786, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1981. Acts 1988, No. 994, §2, eff. July 27, 1988; Acts 2003, No. 935, §1, eff. July 1, 2003; Acts 2022, No. 728, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2023.