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Sec. 9-608. (Formerly Sec. 9-333j). Statements to be filed by campaign treasurers. Treatment of surplus or deficit.

      Sec. 9-608. (Formerly Sec. 9-333j). Statements to be filed by campaign treasurers. Treatment of surplus or deficit. (a) Filing dates. (1) Each campaign treasurer of a committee, other than a state central committee, shall file a statement, sworn under penalty of false statement with the proper authority in accordance with the provisions of section 9-603, (A) on the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April, July and October, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the statement shall be filed on the next business day, (B) on the seventh day preceding each regular state election, except that (i) in the case of a candidate or exploratory committee established for an office to be elected at a municipal election, the statement shall be filed on the seventh day preceding a regular municipal election in lieu of such date, and (ii) in the case of a town committee, the statement shall be filed on the seventh day preceding each municipal election in addition to such date, and (C) if the committee has made or received a contribution or expenditure in connection with any other election, a primary or a referendum, on the seventh day preceding the election, primary or referendum. The statement shall be complete as of the last day of the month preceding the month in which the statement is required to be filed, except that for the statement required to be filed on the seventh day preceding the election, primary or referendum, the statement shall be complete as of seven days immediately preceding the required filing day. The statement shall cover a period to begin with the first day not included in the last filed statement. In the case of a candidate committee, the statement required to be filed in January shall be in lieu of the statement formerly required to be filed within forty-five days following an election.

      (2) Each campaign treasurer of a candidate committee, within thirty days following any primary, and each campaign treasurer of a political committee formed for a single primary, election or referendum, within forty-five days after any election or referendum not held in November, shall file statements in the same manner as is required of them under subdivision (1) of this subsection. If the campaign treasurer of a candidate committee established by a candidate, who is unsuccessful in the primary or has terminated his candidacy prior to the primary, distributes all surplus funds within thirty days following the scheduled primary and discloses the distribution on the postprimary statement, such campaign treasurer shall not be required to file any subsequent statement unless the committee has a deficit, in which case he shall file any required statements in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (3) of subsection (e) of this section.

      (3) In the case of state central committees, (A) on the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April and July, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, on the next business day, and (B) on the twelfth day preceding any election, the campaign treasurer of each such committee shall file with the proper authority, a statement, sworn under penalty of false statement, complete as of the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which such statement is to be filed in the case of statements required to be filed in January, April and July, and complete as of the nineteenth day preceding an election, in the case of the statement required to be filed on the twelfth day preceding an election, and in each case covering a period to begin with the first day not included in the last filed statement.

      (b) Exemption from filing requirements. The statements required to be filed under subsection (a) of this section and subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (e) of this section, shall not be required to be filed by: (1) A candidate committee or political committee formed for a single primary or election until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars for purposes of the primary or election for which such committee was formed; (2) a political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars; or (3) a party or political committee organized for ongoing political activities until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars for the calendar year except the statements required to be filed on the tenth calendar day in the month of January and on the seventh day preceding any election shall be so filed. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to state central committees or to the statement required to be filed by an exploratory committee upon its termination. A committee which is exempted from filing statements under the provisions of this subsection shall file in lieu thereof a statement sworn under penalty of false statement, indicating that the committee has not received or expended an amount in excess of one thousand dollars.

      (c) Content of statements. (1) Each statement filed under subsection (a), (e) or (f) of this section shall include, but not be limited to: (A) An itemized accounting of each contribution, if any, including the full name and complete address of each contributor and the amount of the contribution; (B) in the case of anonymous contributions, the total amount received and the denomination of the bills; (C) an itemized accounting of each expenditure, if any, including the full name and complete address of each payee, including secondary payees whenever the primary or principal payee is known to include charges which the primary payee has already paid or will pay directly to another person, vendor or entity, the amount and the purpose of the expenditure, the candidate supported or opposed by the expenditure, whether the expenditure is made independently of the candidate supported or is an in-kind contribution to the candidate, and a statement of the balance on hand or deficit, as the case may be; (D) an itemized accounting of each expense incurred but not paid, provided if the expense is incurred by use of a credit card, the accounting shall include secondary payees, and the amount owed to each such payee; (E) the name and address of any person who is the guarantor of a loan to, or the cosigner of a note with, the candidate on whose behalf the committee was formed, or the campaign treasurer in the case of a party committee or a political committee or who has advanced a security deposit to a telephone company, as defined in section 16-1, for telecommunications service for a committee; (F) for each business entity or person purchasing advertising space in a program for a fund-raising affair, the name and address of the business entity or the name and address of the person, and the amount and aggregate amounts of such purchases; (G) for each individual who contributes in excess of one hundred dollars but not more than one thousand dollars, in the aggregate, to the extent known, the principal occupation of such individual and the name of the individual's employer, if any; (H) for each individual who contributes in excess of one thousand dollars in the aggregate, the principal occupation of such individual, the name of the individual's employer, if any; (I) for each itemized contribution made by a lobbyist, the spouse of a lobbyist or any dependent child of a lobbyist who resides in the lobbyist's household, a statement to that effect; and (J) for each individual who contributes in excess of four hundred dollars in the aggregate to or for the benefit of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, a statement indicating whether the individual or a business with which he is associated has a contract with said municipality that is valued at more than five thousand dollars. Each campaign treasurer shall include in such statement (i) an itemized accounting of the receipts and expenditures relative to any testimonial affair held under the provisions of section 9-609 or any other fund-raising affair, which is referred to in subsection (b) of section 9-601a, and (ii) the date, location and a description of the affair.

      (2) Each contributor described in subparagraph (G), (H), (I) or (J) of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall, at the time the contributor makes such a contribution, provide the information which the campaign treasurer is required to include under said subparagraph in the statement filed under subsection (a), (e) or (f) of this section. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b, any contributor described in subparagraph (G) of subdivision (1) of this subsection who does not provide such information at the time the contributor makes such a contribution and any treasurer shall not be subject to the provisions of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b. If a campaign treasurer receives a contribution from an individual which separately, or in the aggregate, is in excess of one thousand dollars and the contributor has not provided the information required by said subparagraph (H) or if a campaign treasurer receives a contribution from an individual to or for the benefit of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, which separately, or in the aggregate, is in excess of four hundred dollars and the contributor has not provided the information required by said subparagraph (J), the campaign treasurer: (i) Within three business days after receiving the contribution, shall send a request for such information to the contributor by certified mail, return receipt requested; (ii) shall not deposit the contribution until the campaign treasurer obtains such information from the contributor, notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-606; and (iii) shall return the contribution to the contributor if the contributor does not provide the required information within fourteen days after the treasurer's written request or the end of the reporting period in which the contribution was received, whichever is later. Any failure of a contributor to provide the information which the campaign treasurer is required to include under said subparagraph (G) or (I), which results in noncompliance by the campaign treasurer with the provisions of said subparagraph (G) or (I), shall be a complete defense to any action against the campaign treasurer for failure to disclose such information.

      (3) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (2) of this subsection, each contributor who makes a contribution to a candidate or exploratory committee for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, state senator or state representative, any political committee authorized to make contributions to such candidates or committees, and any party committee that separately, or in the aggregate, exceeds fifty dollars shall provide with the contribution a certification that the contributor is not a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor, as defined in subsection (g) of section 9-612, nor a communicator lobbyist or a member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist and shall provide the name of the employer of the contributor. The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall prepare a sample form for such certification by the contributor and shall make it available to campaign treasurers and contributors. Such sample form shall include an explanation of the terms "communicator lobbyist" and "principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor". The information on such sample form shall be included in any written solicitation conducted by any such committee. If a campaign treasurer receives such a contribution and the contributor has not provided such certification, the campaign treasurer shall: (A) Not later than three business days after receiving the contribution, send a request for the certification to the contributor by certified mail, return receipt requested; (B) not deposit the contribution until the campaign treasurer obtains the certification from the contributor, notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-606; and (C) return the contribution to the contributor if the contributor does not provide the certification not later than fourteen days after the treasurer's written request or at the end of the reporting period in which the contribution was received, whichever is later. If a campaign treasurer deposits a contribution based on a certification that is later determined to be false, the treasurer shall not be in violation of this subdivision.

      (4) Contributions from a single individual to a campaign treasurer in the aggregate totaling fifty dollars or less need not be individually identified in the statement, but a sum representing the total amount of all such contributions made by all such individuals during the period to be covered by such statement shall be a separate entry, identified only by the words "total contributions from small contributors".

      (5) Each statement filed by the campaign treasurer of a party committee, a legislative caucus committee or a legislative leadership committee shall include an itemized accounting of each organization expenditure made by the committee. Concomitant with the filing of any such statement containing an accounting of an organization expenditure made by the committee for the benefit of a participating candidate for the office of state senator or state representative, such campaign treasurer shall provide notice of the amount and purpose of the organization expenditure to the candidate committee of such candidate.

      (6) In addition to the other applicable requirements of this section, the campaign treasurer of a candidate committee of a participating candidate for the office of state senator or state representative who has received the benefit of any organization expenditure shall, not later than the time of dissolving such committee, file a statement with the State Elections Enforcement Commission that lists, if known to such candidate committee, the committee which made such organization expenditure for such candidate's behalf and the amount and purpose of such organization expenditure.

      (7) Statements filed in accordance with this section shall remain public records of the state for five years from the date such statements are filed.

      (d) Duplicate statement for candidate or chairman. Timely filing. At the time of filing statements required under this section, the campaign treasurer of each candidate committee shall send to the candidate a duplicate statement and the campaign treasurer of each party committee and each political committee other than an exploratory committee shall send to the chairman of the committee a duplicate statement. Each statement required to be filed under this section and subsection (g) of section 9-610, shall be deemed to be filed in a timely manner if it is delivered by hand to the office of the proper authority before four-thirty o'clock p.m. or postmarked by the United States Postal Service before midnight on the required filing day. If the day for any such filing falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the statement shall be filed on the next business day thereafter.

      (e) Distribution or expenditure from surplus funds. Reporting re deficits. (1) Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter, in the event of a surplus the campaign treasurer of a candidate committee or of a political committee, other than a political committee formed for ongoing political activities or an exploratory committee, shall distribute or expend such surplus not later than ninety days after a primary which results in the defeat of the candidate, an election or referendum not held in November or by January thirty-first following an election or referendum held in November, in the following manner:

      (A) Such committees may distribute their surplus to a party committee, or a political committee organized for ongoing political activities, return such surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, distribute all or any part of such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701 or distribute such surplus to any charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, provided (i) no candidate committee may distribute such surplus to a committee which has been established to finance future political campaigns of the candidate, (ii) a candidate committee which received moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund shall distribute such surplus to such fund, and (iii) a candidate committee for a nonparticipating candidate, as described in subsection (b) of section 9-703, may only distribute any such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund or to a charitable organization;

      (B) Each such political committee established by an organization which received its funds from the organization's treasury shall return its surplus to its sponsoring organization;

      (C) (i) Each political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question, which does not receive contributions from a business entity or an organization, shall distribute its surplus to a party committee, to a political committee organized for ongoing political activities, to a national committee of a political party, to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, to state or municipal governments or agencies or to any organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended. (ii) Each political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question, which receives contributions from a business entity or an organization, shall distribute its surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, to state or municipal governments or agencies, or to any organization which is tax-exempt under said provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, a committee formed for a single referendum shall not be required to expend its surplus not later than ninety days after the referendum and may continue in existence if a substantially similar referendum question on the same issue will be submitted to the electorate within six months after the first referendum. If two or more substantially similar referenda on the same issue are submitted to the electorate, each no more than six months apart, the committee shall expend such surplus within ninety days following the date of the last such referendum;

      (D) The campaign treasurer of the candidate committee of a candidate who is elected to office may, upon the authorization of such candidate, expend surplus campaign funds to pay for the cost of clerical, secretarial or other office expenses necessarily incurred by such candidate in preparation for taking office; except such surplus shall not be distributed for the personal benefit of any individual or to any organization; and

      (E) The campaign treasurer of a candidate committee, or of a political committee, other than a political committee formed for ongoing political activities or an exploratory committee, shall, prior to the dissolution of such committee, either (i) distribute any equipment purchased, including, but not limited to, computer equipment, to any recipient as set forth in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, or (ii) sell any equipment purchased, including but not limited to computer equipment, to any person for fair market value and then distribute the proceeds of such sale to any recipient as set forth in said subparagraph (A).

      (2) Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter, the campaign treasurer of the candidate committee of a candidate who has withdrawn from a primary or election may, prior to the primary or election, distribute its surplus to any organization which is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or return such surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution.

      (3) Not later than seven days after such distribution or not later than seven days after all funds have been expended in accordance with subparagraph (D) of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the campaign treasurer shall file a supplemental statement, sworn under penalty of false statement, with the proper authority, identifying all further contributions received since the previous statement and explaining how any surplus has been distributed or expended in accordance with this section. No surplus may be distributed or expended until after the election, primary or referendum.

      (4) In the event of a deficit, the campaign treasurer shall file a supplemental statement ninety days after an election, primary or referendum not held in November or on the seventh calendar day in February, or the next business day if such day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, after an election or referendum held in November, with the proper authority and, thereafter, on the seventh day of each month following if on the last day of the previous month there was an increase or decrease in the deficit in excess of five hundred dollars from that reported on the last statement filed. The campaign treasurer shall file such supplemental statements as required until the deficit is eliminated. If any such committee does not have a surplus or a deficit, the statement required to be filed not later than forty-five days following any election or referendum not held in November or on the seventh calendar day in January, or the next business day if such day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, following an election or referendum held in November, or not later than thirty days following any primary shall be the last required statement.

      (f) Dissolution of exploratory committee. If an exploratory committee has been established by a candidate pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604, the campaign treasurer of the committee shall file a notice of intent to dissolve it with the appropriate authority not later than fifteen days after the candidate's declaration of intent to seek nomination or election to a particular public office, except that in the case of an exploratory committee established by a candidate for purposes that include aiding or promoting the candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to the General Assembly or a state office, the campaign treasurer of the committee shall file such notice of intent to dissolve the committee not later than fifteen days after the earlier of: (1) The candidate's declaration of intent to seek nomination or election to a particular public office, (2) the candidate's endorsement at a convention, caucus or town committee meeting, or (3) the candidate's filing of a candidacy for nomination under section 9-400 or 9-405. The campaign treasurer shall also file a statement identifying all contributions received or expenditures made by the exploratory committee since the previous statement and the balance on hand or deficit, as the case may be. In the event of a surplus, the campaign treasurer shall, not later than the filing of the statement, distribute the surplus to the candidate committee established pursuant to said section, except that (A) in the case of a surplus of an exploratory committee established by a candidate who intends to be a participating candidate, as defined in section 9-703, in the Citizens' Election Program, the campaign treasurer may distribute to the candidate committee only that portion of such surplus that is attributable to contributions that meet the criteria for qualifying contributions for the candidate committee under section 9-704 and shall distribute the remainder of such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701, and (B) in the case of a surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to an office other than the General Assembly or a state office (i) the campaign treasurer may only distribute to the candidate committee for nomination or election to the General Assembly or state office of such candidate that portion of such surplus which is in excess of the total contributions which the exploratory committee received from lobbyists or political committees established by lobbyists, during any period in which the prohibitions in subsection (e) of section 9-610 apply, and (ii) any remaining amount shall be returned to all such lobbyists and political committees established by or on behalf of lobbyists, on a prorated basis of contribution, or distributed to any charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended. If the candidate decides not to seek nomination or election to any office, the campaign treasurer shall, within fifteen days after such decision, comply with the provisions of this subsection and distribute any surplus in the manner provided by this section for political committees other than those formed for ongoing political activities, except that if the surplus is from an exploratory committee established by the State Treasurer, any portion of the surplus that is received from a principal of an investment services firm or a political committee established by such firm shall be returned to such principal or committee on a prorated basis of contribution. In the event of a deficit, the campaign treasurer shall file a statement thirty days after the decision or declaration with the proper authority and, thereafter, on the seventh day of each month following if on the last day of the previous month there was an increase or decrease in such deficit in excess of five hundred dollars from that reported on the last statement filed. The campaign treasurer shall file supplemental statements until the deficit is eliminated. If the exploratory committee does not have a surplus or deficit, the statement filed after the candidate's declaration or decision shall be the last required statement. If a candidate certifies on the statement of organization for the exploratory committee pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604 that the candidate will not be a candidate for the office of state representative and subsequently establishes a candidate committee for the office of state representative, the campaign treasurer of the candidate committee shall pay to the State Treasurer, for deposit in the General Fund, an amount equal to the portion of any contribution received by said exploratory committee that exceeded two hundred fifty dollars. As used in this subsection, "principal of an investment services firm" has the meaning set forth in subsection (f) of section 9-612 and "state office" has the same meaning set forth in subsection (e) of section 9-610.

      (P.A. 86-99, S. 11, 34; P.A. 87-161; 87-524, S. 3, 7; 87-576, S. 4, 6; P.A. 88-83, S. 2, 3; P.A. 89-211, S. 17; P.A. 90-267, S. 3; P.A. 91-351, S. 11, 28; 91-407, S. 36, 42; P.A. 92-246, S. 3, 5; P.A. 93-251, S. 3, 5; P.A. 94-143, S. 4, 6; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 8, 16, 19; P.A. 02-130, S. 18; P.A. 03-223, S. 3-5; 03-241, S. 60, 62; P.A. 04-91, S. 2; P.A. 05-235, S. 24; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 25, 26; P.A. 06-137, S. 18, 30; P.A. 07-1, S. 3; P.A. 08-2, S. 6, 7.)

      History: P.A. 87-161 amended Subsec. (e)(1)(A) to allow committees included under Subdiv. (1) to distribute their surpluses to tax-exempt charitable organizations; P.A. 87-524, in Subsec. (c), added Subsec. (c)(1)(F), re an individual who contributes in excess of $1,000 in the aggregate, and (c)(1)(G), re itemized contributions by a lobbyist, added new Subsec. (c)(2) requiring contributors described in said Subparas. (F) and (G) to provide required information to campaign treasurer and providing that failure to do so is complete defense to action against campaign treasurer, and renumbered remaining Subdivs. accordingly; P.A. 87-576 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to set forth conditions under which campaign treasurer of candidate committee established by candidate shall not be required to file any subsequent statement; P.A. 88-83 amended Subsec. (b) to raise the filing threshold for statements from $500 or, in the case of a referendum question, from $0.10 for each resident of the voting district or districts, to $1,000; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; P.A. 90-267 added provisions in Subsec. (f) re distribution of surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to an office other than the general assembly; P.A. 91-351 divided Subsec. (a) into Subparas. and added Subpara. (B)(i) and (ii) re exceptions to requirement that committees file on seventh day preceding an election, amended Subsec. (c)(2) by adding provisions re failure to provide required information in case of contribution in excess of $1,000, designated former Subsec. (e)(1)(C) as clause (i) and limited its application to political committee which does not receive contributions from a business entity or an organization and added clause (ii) re political committee which receives such contributions, added new Subsec. (e)(2) re distribution of surplus by candidate who withdraws prior to primary or election and renumbered former Subdivs. (2) and (3) as (3) and (4); P.A. 91-407 amended Subsec. (c) to require name and address of person who has advanced security deposit to telephone company to be included in statement; P.A. 92-246 added Subsec. (c)(1)(F) requiring reporting of purchases of advertising space in a fund-raising affair program and relettered former Subparas. (F) and (G) accordingly; P.A. 93-251 inserted reference to Subsec. (g) of Sec. 9-333l(g) in Subsec. (d), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-143 added Subsec. (e)(1)(E) re distribution and sale of purchased equipment, effective January 1, 1995 and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 amended Subsec. (c)(1)(C) by requiring statement to include candidate supported or opposed by expenditure and whether expenditure is independent or in-kind, added new Subsec. (c)(1)(G) re reporting of occupation and employer of certain contributors and relettered remaining Subparas. and amended Subsec. (c)(2) by exempting from Sec. 9-7b(2) any contributor who does not provide information required by Subsec. (c)(1)(G), effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998 and added provisions in Subsec. (f) re surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to a state office, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (f) by adding exception re distribution of surplus from exploratory committee established by State Treasurer and defining "principal of an investment services firm", effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-223 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to require that January, April, July and October statements be filed on seventh calendar day of month instead of second Thursday, that statements be complete as of last day of preceding month, except for statements required to be filed on seventh day preceding election, primary or referendum and that January candidate committee statement be in lieu of statement formerly required to be filed within 45 days following election, and to eliminate exception re period covered by January party or political committee statement, amended Subsec. (a)(2) to eliminate statement required within 45 days following election and to require political committee statement to be filed only after election or referendum "not held in November", amended Subsec. (c)(1)(F) by eliminating requirement that statement include name of chief executive officer of business entity purchasing advertising space in fund-raising affair program and further amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding ", which is referred to in subsection (b) of section 9-333b, and (ii) the date, location and a description of the affair", amended Subsec. (e)(1) by applying 90-day deadline for distribution or expenditure of surplus to an election or referendum "not held in November" and providing for January thirty-first deadline for election or referendum held in November, and amended Subsec. (e)(4) by applying 90 and 45-day deadlines to elections, primaries and referenda "not held in November" and providing February or January deadlines for elections and referenda held in November, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 03-241 added Subsec. (c)(1)(J) re disclosure of certain municipal contracts by certain contributors to candidates for office of chief executive officer of a city, town or borough, amended Subsec. (c)(2) to extend provisions to contributors and contributions described in Subsec. (c)(1)(J) and made technical changes, and, effective July 1, 2003, amended Subsec. (e)(1) to allow continuation of committee formed for a single referendum if a substantially similar referendum question will be submitted to electorate within six months in Subpara. (C) and to make technical changes; P.A. 04-91 amended Subsec. (c)(1)(C) and (D) by adding provisions requiring accounting to include secondary payees, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-235 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(A) to change deadlines for filing statements for a committee, other than a state central committee, from seventh to tenth calendar day in January, April, July and October and amended Subsec. (a)(3) to insert subpara. designators and change deadlines for filing statements for state central committee from January thirtieth, April tenth and July tenth to "the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April and July, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, on the next business day", effective July 1, 2005; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (c) by redesignating existing Subdivs. (3) and (4) as Subdivs. (4) and (6), respectively, adding new Subdiv. (3) re requirement of certification that contributor is not a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor, changing $30 to $50 in redesignated Subdiv. (4) and adding Subdiv. (5) requiring statement filed by party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee to include accounting of each organization expenditure made by the committee, amended Subsec. (e) to make technical changes and, in Subdiv. (1)(A), to authorize committees to distribute surplus to Citizens' Election Fund and require candidate committee receiving moneys from the fund to distribute surplus to the fund, and amended Subsec. (f) to require separate deadline for filing notice of intent to dissolve exploratory committee established by candidate for purposes including aiding or promoting candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to General Assembly or a state office, to provide exception for distribution of surplus of exploratory committee established by candidate who intends to be participating candidate in Citizens' Election Program, to add provision re candidate who certifies on exploratory committee statement of organization that candidate will not be candidate for office of state representative and subsequently establishes candidate committee for said office, to define "state office" and to make technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-137 amended Subsec. (c)(5) to add requirement re notice to be given of organization expenditure made by the committee for the benefit of a participating candidate for the office of state senator or state representative to the candidate committee of such candidate, and added new Subsec. (c)(6) re notice by candidate committee who received benefit of organization expenditure to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, redesignating existing Subdiv. (6) as Subdiv. (7), and amended Subsec. (e)(1)(A) by adding provision re surplus distribution restrictions applicable to candidate committee for a nonparticipating candidate, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333j transferred to Sec. 9-608 in 2007; P.A. 07-1 amended Subsec. (c)(3) to indicate to whom contributions are made, change "one hundred dollars" to "fifty dollars", include provision re preparation of sample form for certification by State Elections Enforcement Commission and make technical changes, effective February 8, 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to change "second Thursday" to "tenth calendar day" and amended Subsec. (c)(1)(H) to eliminate provision re statement indicating whether individual or business with which he is associated has contract with the state valued at $5,000 or more, effective April 7, 2008.

      See Sec. 1-2a re construing of references to "United States mail" or "postmark" to include references to any delivery service designated by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to Section 7502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any successor to the code, as amended, and to any date recorded or marked as described in said Section 7502 by a designated delivery service and construing of "registered or certified mail" to include any equivalent designated by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to said Section 7502.

      See Sec. 9-717 re effect of court of competent jurisdiction's prohibiting or limiting the expenditure of funds from the Citizens' Election Fund established in Sec. 9-701.