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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4640 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20000216 Primary Sponsor:J. Smith All Sponsors:J. Smith and Lourie Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\pt\1261dw99.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Campaign practices, election candidates, political party expenditures, restrictions on; Ethics History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20000216 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 8-13-1316, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO RESTRICTIONS ON CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED FROM POLITICAL PARTIES, SO AS TO PROHIBIT A POLITICAL PARTY THROUGH ITS PARTY COMMITTEE OR LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS COMMITTEE, FROM MAKING EXPENDITURES ON BEHALF OF OR IN OPPOSITION TO A CANDIDATE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 8-13-1316(A) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 248 of 1991, is amended to read:
"(A) Within an election cycle, a candidate may not accept or receive contributions from a political party through its party committees or legislative caucus committees and no political party through its party committees or legislative caucus committees may contribute to or make expenditures on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate which total in the aggregate more than:
(1) fifty thousand dollars in the case of a candidate for statewide office;
(2) five thousand dollars in the case of a candidate for any other office."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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