WSR 01-10-050

PERMANENT RULES

PUBLIC DISCLOSURE COMMISSION


[ Filed April 26, 2001, 4:40 p.m. , effective June 1, 2001 ]

Date of Adoption: April 24, 2001.

Purpose: To outline the circumstances and dollar thresholds under which a candidate and/or political committee is eligible to use a reporting option other than full reporting.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 390-16-105 Abbreviated campaign reporting -- Eligibility.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 42.17.370.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 01-07-106 on March 21, 2001.

Changes Other than Editing from Proposed to Adopted Version: Removed all reference to WAC 390-16-120.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: June 1, 2001.

April 25, 2001

Vicki Rippie

Executive Director


AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 86-04-071, filed 2/5/86)

WAC 390-16-105   ((Abbreviated)) Mini campaign reporting -- Eligibility.   (1) ((No)) A candidate or candidate's authorized committee ((and no political committee)), as those terms are defined in RCW 42.17.020, shall not be required to comply with the provisions of RCW 42.17.060 ((-)) through 42.17.090 except as otherwise prescribed in WAC 390-16-038, 390-16-115, ((390-16-120)) and 390-16-125 when neither ((the)) aggregate contributions nor ((the)) aggregate expenditure exceed the amount of the candidate's filing fee provided by law plus a sum not to exceed ((two)) three thousand five hundred dollars and no contribution or contributions from any ((source)) person other than the candidate(('s personal resources)) within such aggregate exceed ((s)) ((two)) three hundred dollars. However, a bona fide political party may pay the candidate's filing fee provided by law without that payment disqualifying that candidate from eligibility under this section.

     (2) A political committee, as that term is defined in RCW 42.17.020, shall not be required to comply with the provisions of RCW 42.17.060 through 42.17.090 except as otherwise prescribed in WAC 390-16-038, 390-16-115, ((390-16-120)) and 390-16-125 when neither aggregate contributions nor aggregate expenditures exceed three thousand five hundred dollars and no contribution or contributions from any person exceed three hundred dollars.

     (3) ((No)) A continuing political committee, as that term is defined in RCW 42.17.020, shall not be required to comply with the provisions of RCW 42.17.060 through 42.17.090 except as otherwise prescribed in WAC 390-16-038, 390-16-115, ((390-16-120)) and 390-16-125 when neither ((the)) aggregate contributions nor ((the)) aggregate expenditures during a calendar year exceed ((two)) three thousand five hundred dollars and no contribution or contributions from any person exceed ((two)) three hundred dollars.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.370(1). 86-04-071 (Order 86-01), § 390-16-105, filed 2/5/86; Order 91, § 390-16-105, filed 7/22/77; Order 62, § 390-16-105, filed 8/26/75.]

Reviser's note: RCW 34.05.395 requires the use of underlining and deletion marks to indicate amendments to existing rules. The rule published above varies from its predecessor in certain respects not indicated by the use of these markings.

Reviser's note: The typographical error in the above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the Register pursuant to the requirements of RCW 34.08.040.

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