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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-301" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="General Reporting Requirements">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “out–of–state political committee” means a nonfederal political committee organized under the law of another state.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An out–of–state political committee shall register with the State Board on a form that the State Board prescribes within 48 hours after directly or indirectly making transfers in a cumulative amount of $6,000 or more in an election cycle to one or more campaign finance entities organized under Subtitle 2, Part II of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The registration form the State Board prescribes shall require an out–of–state political committee to designate the election year in which the committee is participating.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>After registering with the State Board, an out–of–state political committee shall file reports with the State Board for the election year in which the committee is participating on or before each date that a campaign finance entity of a candidate is required to file a campaign finance report under § 13–309 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>The reports under subsection (c) of this section shall:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>disclose all expenditures made in the State by the out–of–state political committee:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>from the beginning of the election cycle in the case of the first report filed by the out–of–state political committee; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>during the applicable reporting period under § 13–312 of this subtitle for each subsequent report filed by the out–of–state political committee;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>describe how to access the campaign finance reports filed by the out–of–state political committee in the state where the committee is registered and files the reports; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>be filed in the manner and subject to the sanctions provided in Parts VI and VII of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
