RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 447 (HB 740) 2024 Regular Session Marcelle
Existing law provides that any candidate or other person required to file campaign finance
reports who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such report may
be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed. Existing law (R.S.
42:1157(B)) requires the staff of the ethics board to mail a notice of delinquency within four
days after the due date of any report or statement that the staff knows or has reason to know
has not been timely filed. Existing law (R.S. 42:1160) further requires the board to send
communications electronically in a timely manner to filing parties who file through the
Computerized Data Management System.
Existing law provides that the amount of the per day penalty may be $100 per day not to
exceed $2,500 for major office.
Prior law provided that the amount of the per day penalty may be:
(a) $60 per day not to exceed $2,000 for district office.
(b) $40 per day not to exceed $1,000 for other office.
New law changes the maximum on the per day penalties for district office candidates from
$2,000 to $1,000 and for other office candidates from $1,000 to $500.
In addition to the daily penalties for failure to timely file, existing law provides for an
additional civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 imposed on any person required to file a report
between the time a candidate qualifies and election day who has not filed such report by the
sixth day after the report is due, or the 11th day after the report is due for all other reports.
Further provides that a person who knowingly or willfully fails to accurately disclose any
required information in a required report may be assessed an additional civil penalty for each
day until such information is disclosed by amendment to the appropriate report.
New law provides that the computation of days provided for in existing law and new law
shall not include Saturdays, Sundays, or other legal holidays.
Effective August 1, 2024.
(Amends R.S. 18:1505.4(A)(2)(a)(ii) and (iii); Adds R.S. 18:1505.4(E))


Statutes affected:
HB740 Original: 18:4(A)(2)
HB740 Engrossed: 18:4(A)(2)
HB740 Enrolled: 18:4(A)(2)
HB740 Act : 18:4(A)(2)