This bill amends campaign finance laws as follows:
1. It increases the threshold amounts for financial transactions that require candidates, political action committees, ballot question committees and party committees to file
24-hour reports during the last 13 days before an election;
2. It extends the deadline for 24-hour reports so that the reports are due within 48 hours of the contribution or expenditure;
3. It increases the threshold amount that requires an independent expenditure report from spending in excess of $250 to advocate for or against a candidate to spending in excess of $1,000 per candidate; and
4. It directs the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to amend its rules to provide that independent expenditures made during the 60 days before an election must be disclosed in a report within 2 calendar days of the expenditure.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 2000, SP 814: 21-A.1017, 21-A.1019, 21-A.1059