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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-309.1" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="General Reporting Requirements">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “electioneering communication” has the meaning stated in § 13–307(a) of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section applies to a political action committee that exclusively makes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>independent expenditures; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>disbursements for electioneering communications.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>For purposes of this section, a political action committee shall be considered to have made an expenditure if the political action committee has executed a contract to make an expenditure.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The disclosure reports required under this section are in addition to the campaign finance reports required under § 13–309 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The political action committee shall include all of the information reported on a disclosure report on its regularly filed campaign finance reports.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A political action committee shall file a disclosure report within 48 hours after a day on which the political action committee makes aggregate expenditures of $10,000 or more on campaign material during the reporting period covered by its next campaign finance report.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>A political action committee shall file an additional disclosure report within 48 hours after a day on which the political action committee makes aggregate expenditures of $10,000 or more on campaign material following the closing date of the immediately preceding disclosure report filed by the political action committee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>A disclosure report shall include the information required by the State Board with respect to all contributions received and all expenditures made by or on behalf of the political action committee during the reporting period.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>In addition to any other sanction provided by law, the State Board may assess a penalty for failure to file properly a disclosure report or an amended disclosure report required under this section in an amount not exceeding the greater of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$1,000 for each day or part of a day that a disclosure report or an amended campaign finance report is overdue; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>10% of the amount of the contributions or expenditures that were not reported in a timely manner.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>A person who fails to file properly a disclosure report or an amended disclosure report under this section may seek relief from a penalty under subsection (h) of this section for just cause as provided in § 13–337 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>A penalty under subsection (h) of this section shall be:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>assessed in the manner specified in § 13–604.1 of this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>distributed to the Fair Campaign Financing Fund established under § 15–103 of this article.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>If a responsible officer of a political action committee subject to this section has failed to pay any civil penalty or late fee under this title for which the individual is responsible, the individual may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>serve as the responsible officer of any other political committee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>serve in any position of responsibility in any other entity subject to regulation under this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>assist in the formation of a political committee or any other entity subject to regulation under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
