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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-243" 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 a membership entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Membership entity” means an organization that collects dues from its members.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A membership entity may establish a program for periodically collecting from its members and accumulating voluntary contributions by the members to an affiliated political action committee if those contributions are collected together with:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>membership dues invoiced and collected by the membership entity; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>contributions by the members to a political action committee established under federal law, if that political action committee is also affiliated with the membership entity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A membership entity shall keep detailed and accurate records of each contribution received 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 is withheld;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the contribution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the disposition of the contribution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Within 30 days after being received, a contribution under this section shall be transmitted by the membership entity, with the information recorded under subsection (c)(1), (2), and (3) of this section, to its affiliated political action committee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In soliciting a member, by joint invoice for membership dues or for a contribution to an affiliated federal political action committee, to make a contribution to its affiliated political action committee, a membership entity shall inform the member of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the political purposes of the affiliated political action committee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the member’s right to refuse to contribute to the political action committee without reprisal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>An employee membership entity or its affiliated political action committee entity may not receive or use money or anything of value under this section if it is obtained:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>by actual or threatened:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>physical force;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>membership discrimination; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>financial or professional reprisal; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>as dues, fees, or other assessment required as a condition of membership.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
