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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-242" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Campaign Finance Organization and Activity">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Affiliated political action committee” means a political action committee affiliated with an employee membership entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Employee membership entity” means an organization whose membership includes employees of the employer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>If an employer withholds from employees by payroll deduction the employees’ dues to an employee membership entity:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the employee also may make contributions by payroll deduction to one or more affiliated political action committees selected by the employee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the employer shall collect the contributions and transmit them to the employee membership entity designated by the employee in accordance with the requirements of subsection (c) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>Periodic contributions collected by payroll deductions pursuant to a program established under subsection (b) of this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>combined and accumulated in a segregated escrow account maintained solely for that purpose; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>transmitted to the employee membership entity within 30 days of being withheld, together with the information required under subsection (d)(1) through (4) of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>An affiliated political action committee, in conjunction with its employee membership entity and the employer, shall keep detailed and accurate records of each contribution under subsection (b) of this section, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the name  and address of the contributor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the date on which the contribution was made;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the contribution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the name of the affiliated political action committee designated by the employee to receive the contribution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the date on which the contribution was received by the employee membership entity and the affiliated political action committee.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 30 days after it receives a contribution under subsection (c) of this section, the employee membership entity shall transmit the contribution:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>to its affiliated political action committee; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>if a contribution is designated for a political action committee affiliated with a State or local chapter of the employee membership entity, to the State or local chapter of the employee membership entity.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Within 5 days after it receives a contribution under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection, the State or local chapter of the employee membership entity shall transmit the contribution to its affiliated political action committee.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An employee membership entity, including a State or local chapter, that transfers contributions in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection shall include the information recorded under subsection (d) of this section that is received from the employer.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>An employer, employee membership entity, or affiliated political action committee, may not solicit, receive, or use employee contributions in a manner that would be prohibited under § 13–241(e) and (f) of this subtitle if performed by an employer.</text>
  </level>
</section>
