Chapter 155 - Elections: Campaign Financing

Sec. 9-601. (Formerly Sec. 9-333a). General definitions. As used in this chapter and chapter 157:

(1) “Committee” means a party committee, political committee or a candidate committee organized, as the case may be, for a single primary, election or referendum, or for ongoing political activities, to aid or promote the success or defeat of any political party, any one or more candidates for public office or the position of town committee member or any referendum question.

(2) “Party committee” means a state central committee or a town committee. “Party committee” does not mean a party-affiliated or district, ward or borough committee which receives all of its funds from the state central committee of its party or from a single town committee with the same party affiliation. Any such committee so funded shall be construed to be a part of its state central or town committee for purposes of this chapter and chapter 157.

(3) “Political committee” means (A) a committee organized by a business entity or organization, (B) persons other than individuals, or two or more individuals organized or acting jointly conducting their activities in or outside the state, (C) an exploratory committee, (D) a committee established by or on behalf of a slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace, but does not mean a candidate committee or a party committee, (E) a legislative caucus committee, or (F) a legislative leadership committee.

(4) “Candidate committee” means any committee designated by a single candidate, or established with the consent, authorization or cooperation of a candidate, for the purpose of a single primary or election and to aid or promote such candidate's candidacy alone for a particular public office or the position of town committee member, but does not mean a political committee or a party committee. For purposes of this chapter, “candidate committee” includes candidate committees for participating and nonparticipating candidates, unless the context of a provision clearly indicates otherwise.

(5) “Exploratory committee” means a committee established by a candidate for a single primary or election (A) to determine whether to seek nomination or election to (i) the General Assembly, (ii) a state office, as defined in subsection (e) of section 9-610, or (iii) any other public office, and (B) if applicable, to aid or promote such candidate's candidacy for nomination to the General Assembly or any such state office.

(6) “National committee” means the organization which according to the bylaws of a political party is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the party at the national level.

(7) “Organization” means all labor organizations, (A) as defined in the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, as from time to time amended, or (B) as defined in subdivision (9) of section 31-101, employee organizations as defined in subsection (d) of section 5-270 and subdivision (6) of section 7-467, bargaining representative organizations for teachers, any local, state or national organization, to which a labor organization pays membership or per capita fees, based upon its affiliation or membership, and trade or professional associations which receive their funds exclusively from membership dues, whether organized in or outside of this state, but does not mean a candidate committee, party committee or a political committee.

(8) “Business entity” means the following, whether organized in or outside of this state: Stock corporations, banks, insurance companies, business associations, bankers associations, insurance associations, trade or professional associations which receive funds from membership dues and other sources, partnerships, joint ventures, private foundations, as defined in Section 509 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended; trusts or estates; corporations organized under sections 38a-175 to 38a-194, inclusive, 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, and chapters 594 to 597, inclusive; cooperatives, and any other association, organization or entity which is engaged in the operation of a business or profit-making activity; but does not include professional service corporations organized under chapter 594a and owned by a single individual, nonstock corporations which are not engaged in business or profit-making activity, organizations, as defined in subdivision (7) of this section, candidate committees, party committees and political committees as defined in this section. For purposes of this chapter, corporations which are component members of a controlled group of corporations, as those terms are defined in Section 1563 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, shall be deemed to be one corporation.

(9) “Individual” means a human being, a sole proprietorship, or a professional service corporation organized under chapter 594a and owned by a single human being.

(10) “Person” means an individual, committee, firm, partnership, organization, association, syndicate, company trust, corporation, limited liability company or any other legal entity of any kind but does not mean the state or any political or administrative subdivision of the state.

(11) “Candidate” means an individual who seeks nomination for election or election to public office whether or not such individual is elected, and for the purposes of this chapter and chapter 157, an individual shall be deemed to seek nomination for election or election if such individual has (A) been endorsed by a party or become eligible for a position on the ballot at an election or primary, or (B) solicited or received contributions, other than for a party committee, made expenditures or given such individual's consent to any other person, other than a party committee, to solicit or receive contributions or make expenditures with the intent to bring about such individual's nomination for election or election to any such office. “Candidate” also means a slate of candidates which is to appear on the ballot in a primary for the office of justice of the peace. For the purposes of sections 9-600 to 9-610, inclusive, and section 9-621, “candidate” also means an individual who is a candidate in a primary for town committee members.

(12) “Treasurer” means the individual appointed by a candidate or by the chairperson of a party committee or a political committee to receive and disburse funds on behalf of the candidate or committee.

(13) “Deputy treasurer” means the individual appointed by the candidate or by the chairperson of a committee to serve in the capacity of the treasurer if the treasurer is unable to perform the treasurer's duties.

(14) “Solicitor” means an individual appointed by a treasurer of a committee to receive, but not to disburse, funds on behalf of the committee.

(15) “Referendum question” means a question to be voted upon at any election or referendum, including a proposed constitutional amendment.

(16) “Lobbyist” means a lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91, and “communicator lobbyist” means a communicator lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91, and “client lobbyist” means a client lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91.

(17) “Business with which he is associated” means any business in which the contributor is a director, officer, owner, limited or general partner or holder of stock constituting five per cent or more of the total outstanding stock of any class. Officer refers only to the president, executive or senior vice-president or treasurer of such business.

(18) “Agent” means a person authorized to act for or in place of another.

(19) “Entity” means the following, whether organized in this or any other state: An organization, corporation, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, cooperative association, limited partnership, professional association, limited liability company and limited liability partnership. “Entity” includes any tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, and any tax-exempt political organization organized under Section 527 of said code.

(20) “Federal account” means a depository account that is subject to the disclosure and contribution limits provided under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended from time to time.

(21) “Public funds” means funds belonging to, or under the control of, the state or a political subdivision of the state.

(22) “Legislative caucus committee” means a committee established under subdivision (2) of subsection (e) of section 9-605 by the majority of the members of a political party who are also state representatives or state senators.

(23) “Legislative leadership committee” means a committee established under subdivision (3) of subsection (e) of section 9-605 by a leader of the General Assembly.

(24) “Immediate family” means the spouse or a dependent child of an individual.

(25) “Organization expenditure” means an expenditure by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee for the benefit of a candidate or candidate committee for:

(A) The preparation, display or mailing or other distribution of a party candidate listing. As used in this subparagraph, “party candidate listing” means any communication that meets the following criteria: (i) The communication lists the name or names of candidates for election to public office, (ii) the communication is distributed through public advertising such as broadcast stations, cable television, newspapers or similar media, or through direct mail, telephone, electronic mail, publicly accessible sites on the Internet or personal delivery, and (iii) the communication is made to promote the success or defeat of any candidate or slate of candidates seeking the nomination for election, or election or for the purpose of aiding or promoting the success or defeat of any referendum question or the success or defeat of any political party, provided such communication is not a solicitation for or on behalf of a candidate committee;

(B) A document in printed or electronic form, including a party platform, an electronic page providing merchant account services to be used by a candidate for the collection of on-line contributions, a copy of an issue paper, information pertaining to the requirements of this title, a list of registered voters and voter identification information, which document is created or maintained by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee for the general purposes of party or caucus building and is provided (i) to a candidate who is a member of the party that has established such party committee, or (ii) to a candidate who is a member of the party of the caucus or leader who has established such legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, whichever is applicable;

(C) A campaign event at which campaign materials are present and food or beverage may be provided, but at which no contribution shall be received, solicited or bundled; or

(D) The retention of the services of an advisor or individual to provide assistance relating to a candidate's campaign.

(26) “Solicit” means (A) requesting that a contribution be made, (B) participating in any fundraising activities for a candidate committee, exploratory committee, political committee or party committee, including, but not limited to, forwarding tickets to potential contributors, receiving contributions for transmission to any such committee, serving on the committee that is hosting a fundraising event, introducing the candidate or making other public remarks at a fundraising event, being honored or otherwise recognized at a fundraising event, or bundling contributions, (C) serving as chairperson, treasurer or deputy treasurer of any such committee, or (D) establishing a political committee for the sole purpose of soliciting or receiving contributions for any committee. “Solicit” does not include (i) making a contribution that is otherwise permitted under this chapter, (ii) informing any person of a position taken by a candidate for public office or a public official, (iii) notifying the person of any activities of, or contact information for, any candidate for public office, (iv) serving as a member in any party committee or as an officer of such committee that is not otherwise prohibited in this subdivision, or (v) mere attendance at a fundraiser.

(27) “Bundle” means the forwarding of five or more contributions to a single committee by a communicator lobbyist, an agent of such lobbyist, or a member of the immediate family of such lobbyist, or raising contributions for a committee at a fundraising affair held by, sponsored by, or hosted by a communicator lobbyist or an agent of such lobbyist, or a member of the immediate family of such lobbyist.

(28) “Slate committee” means a political committee formed by two or more candidates for nomination or election to any municipal office in the same town, city or borough, or in a primary for the office of justice of the peace or the position of town committee member, whenever such political committee will serve as the sole funding vehicle for the candidates' campaigns.

(29) (A) “Covered transfer” means any donation, transfer or payment of funds by a person to another person if the person receiving the donation, transfer or payment makes independent expenditures or transfers funds to another person who makes independent expenditures.

(B) The term “covered transfer” does not include:

(i) A donation, transfer or payment made by a person in the ordinary course of any trade or business;

(ii) A donation, transfer or payment made by a person, if the person making the donation, transfer or payment prohibited the use of such donation, transfer or payment for an independent expenditure or a covered transfer and the recipient of the donation, transfer or payment agreed to follow the prohibition and deposited the donation, transfer or payment in an account which is segregated from any account used to make independent expenditures or covered transfers;

(iii) Dues, fees or assessments that are transferred between affiliated entities and paid by individuals on a regular, periodic basis in accordance with a per-individual calculation that is made on a regular basis;

(iv) For purposes of this subdivision, “affiliated” means (I) the governing instrument of the entity requires it to be bound by decisions of the other entity; (II) the governing board of the entity includes persons who are specifically designated representatives of the other entity or who are members of the governing board, officers, or paid executive staff members of the other entity, or whose service on the governing board is contingent upon the approval of the other entity; or (III) the entity is chartered by the other entity. “Affiliated” includes entities that are an affiliate of the other entity or where both of the entities are an affiliate of the same entity.

(30) “Party building activity” includes, but is not limited to, any political meeting, conference, convention, and other event, attendance or involvement at which promotes or advances the interests of a party at a local, state or national level, and any associated expenses, including travel, lodging, and any admission fees or other costs, whether or not any such meeting, conference, convention, or other event is sponsored by the party.

(31) “Social media” means an electronic medium where users may create and view user-generated content, such as uploaded or downloaded videos or still photographs, blogs, video blogs, podcasts or instant messages.

(32) “Child care services” means services rendered to a candidate for the care of any child who is under thirteen years of age and for whom such candidate is the parent or legal guardian, which services are necessary as a direct result of campaign activity that would not exist but for such candidate's campaign.

(33) “Foreign national” means:

(A) A foreign principal and any agent or separate segregated fund of a foreign principal;

(B) An individual who is not (i) a citizen of the United States, (ii) a national of the United States, or (iii) lawfully admitted for permanent residence; or

(i) With respect to which a foreign owner or a person described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision holds, owns, controls or otherwise has a direct or indirect beneficial ownership of at least five per cent of such entity's total equity or outstanding voting shares;

(ii) With respect to which two or more, in combination, foreign owners or persons described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision hold, own, control or otherwise have a direct or indirect beneficial ownership of at least twenty per cent of such entity's total equity or outstanding voting shares, excluding interests held in a widely held, diversified fund;

(iii) With respect to which a foreign owner or individual described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, as applicable, of this subdivision participates directly or indirectly in decisions to engage in any activity subject to the provisions of chapter 155 or 157; or

(iv) That is exempt from taxation under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, and with respect to which at least twenty per cent of the income received by such entity in the most recent taxable year derives from one or more foreign owners.

(34) “Foreign principal” has the same meaning as provided in 22 USC 611(b), as amended from time to time.

(35) “National of the United States” has the same meaning as provided in 8 USC 1101(a)(22), as amended from time to time.

(36) “Lawfully admitted for permanent residence” has the same meaning as provided in 8 USC 1101(a)(20), as amended from time to time.

(37) “Foreign owner” means a firm, partnership, corporation, association, organization or other entity with respect to which a person described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of subdivision (33) of this section holds, owns, controls or otherwise has a direct or indirect beneficial ownership of at least fifty per cent of such entity's total equity or outstanding voting shares, excluding interests held in a widely held, diversified fund.

(38) “Widely held, diversified fund” means a pooled investment, including a common trust fund of a financial institution, mutual fund or limited partnership, (A) that has more than one hundred investors, (B) that invests not more than five per cent of its value in the securities of a single issuer, other than the federal government, (C) that invests not more than twenty per cent of its value in any one economic or geographic sector, and (D) for which no investor, and no immediate family member of an investor, is able to exercise control over the financial interests held by the pooled investment, including by exercising the pooled investment's authority as the holder of corporate securities.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 2, 34; P.A. 87-264, S. 2; 87-524, S. 1; 87-576, S. 1, 6; P.A. 89-211, S. 16; P.A. 91-351, S. 2, 28; P.A. 95-79, S. 18, 189; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 11, 19; P.A. 98-7, S. 1, 4; P.A. 99-12, S. 1, 3; P.A. 03-241, S. 10; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 18; P.A. 07-1, S. 4; P.A. 10-187, S. 1; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1, S. 7, 8; P.A. 11-48, S. 298; P.A. 13-180, S. 1; P.A. 17-198, S. 11; P.A. 21-49, S. 1; P.A. 23-205, S. 173; P.A. 24-28, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 87-264 amended Subdiv. (10) to include in definition of “candidate”, in sections indicated, candidates in convention delegate or town committee member primaries; P.A. 87-524 added Subdivs. (15) and (16), defining “lobbyist” and “business with which he is associated”; P.A. 87-576 amended Subdiv. (7) to exclude professional service corporations from definition of “business entity” and amended Subdiv. (8) to include a professional service corporation in definition of “individual”; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; P.A. 91-351 amended Subdiv. (1) to include a committee to aid or promote success or defeat of candidate for position of convention delegate or town committee member in definition of “committee”, added Subpara. (D) to Subdiv. (3) to include committee established by or on behalf of slate of candidates in primary for position of convention delegate to definition of “political committee”, amended Subdiv. (4) to include committee to aid or promote candidacy for position of town committee member to definition of “candidate committee” and amended Subdiv. (10) to include slate of candidates to appear on ballot in primary for position of convention delegate in definition of “candidate” for entire chapter; P.A. 95-79 redefined “person” to include a limited liability company, effective May 31, 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 added Subdiv. (17) defining “independent expenditure”, effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998; P.A. 98-7 added Subdiv. (18) defining “federal account”, effective January 1, 1999, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after that date; P.A. 99-12 added Subdiv. (19) defining “public funds”, effective January 1, 2000; P.A. 03-241 amended Subdiv. (1) by deleting candidates for position of convention delegate from definition of “committee”, amended Subdivs. (3) and (10) by substituting “office of justice of the peace” for “position of convention delegate” and making technical changes in definitions of “political committee” and “candidate”, and amended Subdiv. (17) by making a technical change in definition of “independent expenditure”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 applied section to Secs. 9-700 to 9-716, inclusive, redefined “political committee” in Subdiv. (3) by substituting “exploratory committee” for former provision in Subpara. (C) and adding Subparas. (E) and (F) re legislative caucus committee and legislative leadership committee, redesignated existing Subdivs. (5) to (17) as Subdivs. (6) to (18) and existing Subdivs. (18) and (19) as Subdivs. (20) and (21), defined “exploratory committee” in new Subdiv. (5), added definition of “communicator lobbyist” in redesignated Subdiv. (16), redefined “independent expenditure” in redesignated Subdiv. (18) by excluding coordinated expenditure and deleting provision specifying expenditures excluded from “independent expenditure”, added new Subdiv. (19) defining “coordinated expenditure” and new Subdivs. (22) to (27) defining “legislative caucus committee”, “legislative leadership committee”, “immediate family”, “organization expenditure”, “solicit” and “agent”, and made technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date (Revisor's note: In Subdiv. (19)(C) the words “expenditure by made” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “expenditure be made”); Sec. 9-333a transferred to Sec. 9-601 in 2007; P.A. 07-1 amended Subdiv. (26) to make technical changes in Subpara. (C) and add clause (iv) re serving as member or officer of party committee not otherwise prohibited, effective February 8, 2007; P.A. 10-187 deleted former Subdivs. (18) and (19) defining “independent expenditure” and “coordinated expenditure”, deleted former Subdiv. (27) defining “agent”, redefined “agent” in new Subdiv. (18), added new Subdiv. (19) defining “entity” and made technical changes, effective June 8, 2010; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1 amended Subdiv. (16) to define “client lobbyist” and added new Subdivs. (27) and (28) defining “bundle” and “slate committee”, effective August 13, 2010; P.A. 11-48 amended Subdiv. (4) by redefining “candidate committee” to include committees for participating and nonparticipating candidates, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on and after that date; P.A. 13-180 amended Subdiv. (11)(B) by redefining “candidate” to provide an exclusion for a party committee, amended Subdiv. (12) by changing “campaign treasurer” to “treasurer”, amended Subdiv. (13) by changing “deputy campaign treasurer” to “deputy treasurer”, amended Subdiv. (14) by making a conforming change, amended Subdiv. (19) by redefining “entity” to specify that corporations include for-profit or not-for-profit corporations and to include any tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code or any tax-exempt political organization under Section 527 of said code, amended Subdiv. (25) by redefining “organization expenditure” to replace, in Subpara. (A)(iii), provision re treatment of all candidates substantially similar with provision re promotion of the success or defeat of a candidate, to add provision re an electronic page in Subpara. (B) and to delete former Subpara. (E) re use of offices and equipment, amended Subdiv. (26) by redefining “solicit” to include serving on committee that hosts a fundraising event, making public remarks at such an event or being honored or recognized at such an event, and to add Subpara. (B)(v) re mere attendance at a fundraiser, and added Subdivs. (29), (30) and (31) defining “covered transfer”, “party building activity” and “social media”, effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 17-198 amended Subdiv. (8) to replace “38a-192” with “38a-194”, effective July 1, 2017; P.A. 21-49 added Subdiv. (32) defining “child care services”, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 23-205 amended Subdiv. (25) by replacing “a candidate or candidates” with “campaign materials” and adding references re food and beverage and re contribution prohibition in Subpara. (C) and adding “or individual” and replacing “campaign organization, financing, accounting, strategy, law or media” with “a candidate's campaign” in Subpara. (D), effective June 29, 2023; P.A. 24-28 added Subdivs. (33) to (38) define “foreign national”, “foreign principal”, “national of the United States”, “lawfully admitted for permanent residence”, “foreign owner” and “widely held, diversified fund”, effective May 21, 2024.

Sec. 9-601a. (Formerly Sec. 9-333b). “Contribution” defined. (a) As used in this chapter and chapter 157, “contribution” means:

(1) Any gift, subscription, loan, advance, payment or deposit of money or anything of value, made to promote the success or defeat of any candidate seeking the nomination for election, or election or for the purpose of aiding or promoting the success or defeat of any referendum question or the success or defeat of any political party;

(2) A written contract, promise or agreement to make a contribution for any such purpose;

(3) The payment by any person, other than a candidate or treasurer, of compensation for the personal services of any other person which are rendered without charge to a committee or candidate for any such purpose;

(4) An expenditure that is not an independent expenditure; or

(5) Funds received by a committee which are transferred from another committee or other source for any such purpose.

(b) As used in this chapter and chapter 157, “contribution” does not mean:

(1) A loan of money made in the ordinary course of business by a national or state bank;

(2) Any communication made by a corporation, organization or association solely to its members, owners, stockholders, executive or administrative personnel, or their families;

(3) Nonpartisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns by any corporation, organization or association aimed at its members, owners, stockholders, executive or administrative personnel, or their families;

(4) Uncompensated services provided by individuals volunteering their time on behalf of a party committee, political committee, slate committee or candidate committee, including any services provided for the benefit of nonparticipating and participating candidates under the Citizens' Election Program and any unreimbursed travel expenses made by an individual who volunteers the individual's personal services to any such committee. For purposes of this subdivision, an individual is a volunteer if such individual is not receiving compensation for such services regardless of whether such individual received compensation in the past or may receive compensation for similar services that may be performed in the future;

(5) The use of real or personal property, a portion or all of the cost of invitations and the cost of food or beverages, voluntarily provided by an individual to a candidate, including a nonparticipating or participating candidate under the Citizens' Election Program, or to a party, political or slate committee, in rendering voluntary personal services at the individual's residential premises or a community room in the individual's residence facility, to the extent that the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided by an individual on behalf of any candidate or committee does not exceed four hundred dollars with respect to any single event or does not exceed eight hundred dollars for any such event hosted by two or more individuals, provided at least one such individual owns or resides at the residential premises, and further provided the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided by an individual on behalf of any such candidate or committee does not exceed eight hundred dollars with respect to a calendar year or single election, as the case may be;

(6) The sale of food or beverage for use by a party, political, slate or candidate committee, including those for a participating or nonparticipating candidate, at a discount, if the charge is not less than the cost to the vendor, to the extent that the cumulative value of the discount given to or on behalf of any single candidate committee does not exceed four hundred dollars with respect to any single primary or election, or to or on behalf of any party, political or slate committee, does not exceed six hundred dollars in a calendar year;

(7) The display of a lawn sign by a human being or on real property;

(8) The payment, by a party committee or slate committee of the costs of preparation, display, mailing or other distribution incurred by the committee or individual with respect to any printed slate card, sample ballot or other printed list containing the names of three or more candidates;

(9) The donation of any item of personal property by an individual to a committee for a fund-raising affair, including a tag sale or auction, or the purchase by an individual of any such item at such an affair, to the extent that the cumulative value donated or purchased does not exceed one hundred dollars;

(10) (A) The purchase of advertising space which clearly identifies the purchaser, in a program for a fund-raising affair sponsored by the candidate committee of a candidate for an office of a municipality, provided the cumulative purchase of such space does not exceed two hundred fifty dollars from any single such candidate or the candidate's committee with respect to any single election campaign if the purchaser is a business entity or fifty dollars for purchases by any other person;

(B) The purchase of advertising space which clearly identifies the purchaser, in a program for a fund-raising affair or on signs at a fund-raising affair sponsored by a party committee or a political committee, other than an exploratory committee, provided the cumulative purchase of such space does not exceed two hundred fifty dollars from any single party committee or a political committee, other than an exploratory committee, in any calendar year if the purchaser is a business entity or fifty dollars for purchases by any other person. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subparagraph, the following may not purchase advertising space in a program for a fund-raising affair or on signs at a fund-raising affair sponsored by a party committee or a political committee, other than an exploratory committee: (i) A communicator lobbyist, (ii) a member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist, (iii) a state contractor, (iv) a prospective state contractor, or (v) a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor. As used in this subparagraph, “state contractor”, “prospective state contractor” and “principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor” have the same meanings as provided in subsection (f) of section 9-612;

(11) The payment of money by a candidate to the candidate's candidate committee, provided the committee is for a nonparticipating candidate;

(12) The donation of goods or services by a business entity to a committee for a fund-raising affair, including a tag sale or auction, to the extent that the cumulative value donated does not exceed two hundred dollars;

(13) The advance of a security deposit by an individual to a telephone company, as defined in section 16-1, for telecommunications service for a committee or to another utility company, such as an electric distribution company, provided the security deposit is refunded to the individual;

(14) The provision of facilities, equipment, technical and managerial support, and broadcast time by a community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, for community access programming pursuant to section 16-331a, unless (A) the major purpose of providing such facilities, equipment, support and time is to influence the nomination or election of a candidate, or (B) such facilities, equipment, support and time are provided on behalf of a political party;

(15) The sale of food or beverage by a town committee to an individual at a town fair, county fair, local festival or similar mass gathering held within the state, to the extent that the cumulative payment made by any one individual for such items does not exceed fifty dollars;

(16) An organization expenditure by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee;

(17) The donation of food or beverage by an individual for consumption at a slate, candidate, political committee or party committee meeting, event or activity that is not a fund-raising affair to the extent that the cumulative value of the food or beverages donated by an individual for a single meeting or event does not exceed fifty dollars;

(18) The value associated with the de minimis activity on behalf of a party committee, political committee, slate committee or candidate committee, including for activities including, but not limited to, (A) the creation of electronic or written communications or digital photos or video as part of an electronic file created on a voluntary basis without compensation, including, but not limited to, the creation and ongoing content development and delivery of social media on the Internet or telephone, including, but not limited to, the sending or receiving of electronic mail or messages, (B) the posting or display of a candidate's name or group of candidates' names at a town fair, county fair, local festival or similar mass gathering by a party committee, (C) the use of personal property or a service that is customarily attendant to the occupancy of a residential dwelling, or the donation of an item or items of personal property that are customarily used for campaign purposes, by an individual, to a candidate committee, provided the cumulative fair market value of such use of personal property or service or items of personal property does not exceed one hundred dollars in the aggregate for any single election or calendar year, as the case may be;

(19) The use of offices, telephones, computers and similar equipment provided by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee that serve as headquarters for or are used by such party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee;

(20) A communication, as described in subdivision (7) of subsection (b) of section 9-601b;

(21) An independent expenditure, as defined in section 9-601c;

(22) A communication containing an endorsement on behalf of a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, state senator or state representative, from a candidate for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, state senator or state representative, provided the candidate (A) making the endorsement is unopposed at the time of the communication, and (B) being endorsed paid for such communication;

(23) A communication that is sent by mail to addresses in the district for which a candidate being endorsed by another candidate pursuant to this subdivision is seeking nomination or election to the office of state senator or state representative, containing an endorsement on behalf of such candidate for such nomination or election from a candidate for the office of state senator or state representative, provided the candidate (A) making the endorsement is not seeking election to the office of state senator or state representative for a district that contains any geographical area shared by the district for the office to which the endorsed candidate is seeking nomination or election, and (B) being endorsed paid for such communication; or

(24) Campaign training events provided to multiple individuals by a legislative caucus committee and any associated materials, provided the cumulative value of such events and materials does not exceed six thousand dollars in the aggregate for a calendar year.

(c) The provisions of subdivision (5) of subsection (b) of this section concerning the cost of invitations shall not be construed as preventing the candidate or the party, political or slate committee from paying all or any portion of such costs, in which case such amount paid by such candidate or committee shall not count toward the calculation of the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided pursuant to said subdivision (5).

(P.A. 86-99, S. 3, 34; P.A. 87-576, S. 2, 6; P.A. 91-407, S. 35, 42; P.A. 92-246, S. 2, 5; P.A. 95-144, S. 5, 11; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 9, 19; P.A. 99-264; P.A. 02-130, S. 4; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 19; P.A. 10-187, S. 3; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1, S. 13; P.A. 11-48, S. 286; 11-61, S. 101; 11-139, S. 3; P.A. 13-180, S. 2; P.A. 14-134, S. 45.)

History: P.A. 87-576, in Subsec. (b)(9), changed $30 to $50 and, in Subsec. (b)(10), changed from purchase of single ticket to fund-raising affair to extent purchase price of ticket does not exceed $15 to purchase of “tickets” to any “single” fund-raising affair to extent “aggregate” purchase price of “all” such “tickets” does not exceed $30; P.A. 91-407 added Subsec. (b)(14) excluding advance of security deposit to telephone company from definition of “contribution”; P.A. 92-246 amended Subsec. (b)(11) to revise the exception from “contribution” for purchase of advertising space in a fund-raising affair program; P.A. 95-144 made technical changes; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 repealed Subsec. (b)(10) re purchase of tickets to single fund-raising affair when aggregate price does not exceed $30, and renumbered remaining Subdivs., effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998; P.A. 99-264 added Subsec. (b)(14) re the provision of facilities, equipment, support and broadcast time by a community antenna television company for community access programming unless the purpose is to influence the nomination or election of a candidate or the facilities, equipment, support and time are provided on behalf of a political party; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (b) by making technical changes in Subdivs. (7), (10), (11) and (14) and by adding Subdiv. (15) re sale of food or beverage by town committee at a fair or similar mass gathering, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 applied provisions to Secs. 9-700 to 9-716, inclusive, amended Subsec. (a)(4) by adding “including a coordinated expenditure”, amended Subsec. (b)(10) by designating existing provisions as Subpara. (A), limiting same to program for fund-raising affair sponsored by candidate committee of candidate for office of a municipality and adding Subpara. (B) re purchase of advertising space in program for fund-raising affair sponsored by town committee, and added Subsec. (b)(16) re organization expenditure by party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333b transferred to Sec. 9-601a in 2007; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing language re coordinated expenditure with exception for independent expenditure in Subdiv. (4) and by making a technical change, effective June 8, 2010; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1 amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (17) re donation of food or beverage by an individual, Subdiv. (18) re value associated with de minimis campaign activity and Subdiv. (19) re display of a lawn sign, effective August 13, 2010, and applicable to primaries and elections held on and after that date; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b)(4) by adding provisions stating on behalf of whom the services are provided and describing an individual, amended Subsec. (b)(5) by replacing “or on behalf of a state central or town committee” with language re nonparticipating or participating candidate, party, political or slate committee, including community room, and limiting restriction to single event not to exceed $400 in the case of an individual hosting, or in the case of two or more individuals hosting, $800, amended Subsec. (b)(6) by replacing language re use in a candidate's campaign or by state central or town committee with language re party, political, slate or candidate committee, and by changing $200 limitation to $400 and $400 limitation to $600, amended Subsec. (b)(7) by replacing language re unreimbursed payment for travel with language re lawn sign, amended Subsec. (b)(8) by replacing “political committee or an individual” with “or slate committee”, amended Subsec. (b)(9) by replacing “fifty dollars” with “one hundred dollars”, amended Subsec. (b)(10) by adding language re signs at a fund-raising affair, amended Subsec. (b)(11) by adding proviso re committee for nonparticipating candidate, amended Subsec. (b)(12) by replacing “one hundred dollars” with “two hundred dollars”, amended Subsec. (b)(13) by adding language re another utility company, amended Subsec. (b)(15) by adding “local festival”, amended Subsec. (b)(17) by replacing “legislative caucus, legislative leadership” with “political committee”, amended Subsec. (b)(18) by replacing “de minimis campaign activity” with “de minimis activity”, by deleting language re legislative caucus and legislative leadership committees and language re activity undertaken for the benefit of a participating or nonparticipating candidate, by replacing language re sending of messages from an individual's computer or cellular phone with Subparas. (A), (B) and (C) re electronic or written communications, posting or display of names and use of personal property or service, and by defining “social media”, deleted former Subsec. (b)(19) re lawn sign and made technical changes, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on and after that date; P.A. 11-61 amended Subsec. (b)(7) by adding “on” re real property, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; P.A. 11-139 made a technical change in Subsec. (b), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing language re purpose of influencing with language re promotion of the success or defeat of a candidate or party in Subdiv. (1) and by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” in Subdiv. (3), amended Subsec. (b) by adding “solely” in Subdiv. (2), by replacing language re such services in the future with language re similar services that may be performed in the future in Subdiv. (4), by adding language specifying that the costs associated with invitations may be portioned, replacing restriction re calendar year or primary or general election with respect to the cumulative value provided to a single candidate or committee with restriction re single event and making technical changes in Subdiv. (5), by replacing “town committee” with “party committee or a political committee, other than an exploratory committee” and making technical changes in Subdiv. (10)(B), by adding language re digital photos or video and deleting definition of “social media” in Subdiv. (18) and by adding Subdivs. (19) to (24) re use of offices and equipment, a communication described in Sec. 9-601b, an independent expenditure, a communication endorsing another candidate and campaign training events, and added Subsec. (c) re prohibition against construing language to prevent candidate or committee from paying all or portion of cost of invitations, effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 14-134 amended Subsec. (b)(13) by changing “electric company” to “electric distribution company”, effective June 6, 2014.

Sec. 9-601b. (Formerly Sec. 9-333c). “Expenditure” defined. (a) As used in this chapter and chapter 157, the term “expenditure” means:

(1) Any purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value, when made to promote the success or defeat of any candidate seeking the nomination for election, or election, of any person or for the purpose of aiding or promoting the success or defeat of any referendum question or the success or defeat of any political party;

(2) Any communication that (A) refers to one or more clearly identified candidates, and (B) is broadcast by radio, television, other than on a public access channel, or by satellite communication or via the Internet, or as a paid-for telephone communication, or appears in a newspaper, magazine or on a billboard, or is sent by mail; or

(3) The transfer of funds by a committee to another committee.

(b) The term “expenditure” does not mean:

(1) A loan of money, made in the ordinary course of business, by a state or national bank;

(2) A communication made by any corporation, organization or association solely to its members, owners, stockholders, executive or administrative personnel, or their families;

(5) Any news story, commentary or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, committee or candidate;

(6) The use of real or personal property, a portion or all of the cost of invitations and the cost of food or beverages, voluntarily provided by an individual to a candidate, including a nonparticipating or participating candidate under the Citizens' Election Program, or to a party, political or slate committee, in rendering voluntary personal services at the individual's residential premises or a community room in the individual's residence facility, to the extent that the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided by an individual on behalf of any candidate or committee does not exceed four hundred dollars with respect to any single event or does not exceed eight hundred dollars for any such event hosted by two or more individuals, provided at least one such individual owns or resides at the residential premises, and further provided the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided by an individual on behalf of any such candidate or committee does not exceed eight hundred dollars with respect to a calendar year or single election, as the case may be;

(7) A communication described in subdivision (2) of subsection (a) of this section that includes speech or expression made (A) prior to the ninety-day period preceding the date of a primary or an election at which the clearly identified candidate or candidates are seeking nomination to public office or position, that is made for the purpose of influencing any legislative or administrative action, as defined in section 1-91, or executive action, or (B) during a legislative session for the purpose of influencing legislative action;

(8) An organization expenditure by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee;

(9) A commercial advertisement that refers to an owner, director or officer of a business entity who is also a candidate and that had previously been broadcast or appeared when the owner, director or officer was not a candidate;

(10) A communication containing an endorsement on behalf of a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, state senator or state representative, from a candidate for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, state senator or state representative, shall not be an expenditure attributable to the endorsing candidate, if the candidate making the endorsement is unopposed at the time of the communication;

(11) A communication that is sent by mail to addresses in the district for which a candidate being endorsed by another candidate pursuant to the provisions of this subdivision is seeking nomination or election to the office of state senator or state representative, containing an endorsement on behalf of such candidate for such nomination or election, from a candidate for the office of state senator or state representative, shall not be an expenditure attributable to the endorsing candidate, if the candidate making the endorsement is not seeking election to the office of state senator or state representative for a district that contains any geographical area shared by the district for the office to which the endorsed candidate is seeking nomination or election;

(12) Campaign training events provided to multiple individuals by a legislative caucus committee and any associated materials, provided the cumulative value of such events and materials does not exceed six thousand dollars in the aggregate for a calendar year;

(13) A lawful communication by any charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended;

(14) The use of offices, telephones, computers and similar equipment provided by a party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee that serve as headquarters for or are used by such party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee; or

(15) An expense or expenses incurred by a human being acting alone in an amount that is two hundred dollars or less, in the aggregate, that benefits a candidate for a single election.

(c) “Expense incurred but not paid” means any receipt of goods or services for which payment is required but not made or a written contract, promise or agreement to make an expenditure.

(d) The provisions of subdivision (6) of subsection (b) of this section concerning the cost of invitations shall not be construed as preventing the candidate or the party, political or slate committee from paying all or any portion of such costs, in which case such amount paid by such candidate or committee shall not count toward the calculation of the cumulative value of the invitations, food or beverages provided pursuant to said subdivision (6).

(P.A. 86-99, S. 4, 34; P.A. 99-275, S. 1, 2; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 20; P.A. 10-187, S. 13; P.A. 13-180, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 99-275 amended Subsec. (a) by inserting new Subdiv. (2) including certain advertisements in the term “expenditure”, and by renumbering former Subdiv. (2) as (3), effective July 1, 1999; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) to apply definition of “expenditure” to Secs. 9-700 to 9-716, inclusive, and amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (8) re organization expenditure by party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333c transferred to Sec. 9-601b in 2007; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (a) by adding reference to primary in Subdiv. (2)(C) and by making a technical change, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing language re purpose of influencing with language re promotion of the success or defeat of a candidate or party in Subdiv. (1) and by replacing “advertisement” with “communication”, adding language re communications by satellite or via the Internet and paid-for telephone communication and those sent by mail and deleting former Subpara. (C) re 90-day period prior to primary or election in Subdiv. (2), amended Subsec. (b) by adding “solely” in Subdiv. (2), by adding language describing uncompensated services in Subdiv. (4), by adding language specifying costs associated with invitations may be portioned, replacing “or on behalf of a state central or town” with language re nonparticipating or participating candidate, party, political or slate committee, including community room, and limiting restriction to single event not to exceed $400 in the case of an individual hosting, or in the case of two or more individuals hosting, $800 in Subdiv. (6), by replacing existing language re unreimbursed payment for travel expenses with language re speech or expression made during certain time periods and adding Subdiv. (9) re commercial advertisements, Subdivs. (10) and (11) re communication endorsing another candidate, Subdiv. (12) re campaign training events, Subdiv. (13) re lawful communication by a charitable organization, Subdiv. (14) re use of offices and equipment and Subdiv. (15) re expenses less than $200 incurred by human acting alone, and added Subsec. (d) re prohibition against construing language to prevent candidate or committee from paying all or portion of cost of invitations, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-601c. “Independent expenditure” defined. (a) As used in this chapter and chapter 157, the term “independent expenditure” means an expenditure, as defined in section 9-601b, that is made without the consent, coordination, or consultation of, a candidate or agent of the candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee.

(b) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether such expenditure is an independent expenditure, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the following expenditures are not independent expenditures:

(1) An expenditure made by a person in cooperation, consultation or in concert with, at the request, suggestion or direction of, or pursuant to a general or particular understanding with (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(2) An expenditure made by a person for the production, dissemination, distribution or publication, in whole or in substantial part, of any broadcast or any written, graphic or other form of political advertising or campaign communication prepared by (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(3) An expenditure made by a person based on information about a candidate's, political committee's, or party committee's plans, projects or needs, provided by (A) a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, with the intent that such expenditure be made;

(4) An expenditure made by an individual who, in the same election cycle, is serving or has served as the campaign chairperson, treasurer or deputy treasurer of a candidate committee, political committee or party committee benefiting from such expenditure, or in any other executive or policymaking position, including as a member, employee, fundraiser, consultant or other agent, of a candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(5) An expenditure made by a person or an entity on or after January first in the year of an election in which a candidate is seeking public office that benefits such candidate when such person or entity has hired an individual as an employee or consultant and such individual was an employee of or consultant to such candidate's candidate committee or such candidate's opponent's candidate committee during any part of the eighteen-month period preceding such expenditure;

(6) An expenditure made by a person for fundraising activities (A) for a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or (B) for the solicitation or receipt of contributions on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee;

(7) An expenditure made by a person based on information about a candidate's campaign plans, projects or needs, that is directly or indirectly provided by a candidate, the candidate's candidate committee, a political committee or a party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of such candidate, candidate committee, political committee or party committee, to the person making the expenditure or such person's agent, with an express or tacit understanding that such person is considering making the expenditure;

(8) An expenditure made by a person for a communication that clearly identifies a candidate during an election campaign, if the person making the expenditure, or such person's agent, has informed the candidate who benefits from the expenditure, that candidate's candidate committee, a political committee or a party committee, or a consultant or other agent acting on behalf of the benefiting candidate or candidate committee, political committee, or party committee, concerning the communication's contents, or of the intended audience, timing, location or mode or frequency of dissemination. As used in this subdivision, a communication clearly identifies a candidate when that communication contains the name, nickname, initials, photograph or drawing of the candidate or an unambiguous reference to that candidate, which includes, but is not limited to, a reference that can only mean that candidate; and

(9) An expenditure made by a person or an entity for consultant or creative services, including, but not limited to, services related to communications strategy or design or campaign strategy or to engage a campaign-related vendor, to be used to promote or oppose a candidate's election to office if the provider of such services is or has provided consultant or creative services to such candidate, such candidate's candidate committee or an agent of such candidate committee, or to any opposing candidate's candidate committee or an agent of such candidate committee after January first of the year in which the expenditure occurs. For purposes of this subdivision, communications strategy or design does not include the costs of printing or costs for the use of a medium for the purpose of communications. For purposes of this subdivision, campaign-related vendor includes, but is not limited to, a vendor that provides the following services: Polling, mail design, mail strategy, political strategy, general campaign advice or telephone banking.

(c) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether an expenditure by entity is an independent expenditure, the following shall not be presumed to constitute evidence of consent, coordination or consultation within the meaning of subsection (a) of this section: (1) Participation by a candidate or an agent of the candidate in an event sponsored by the entity, unless such event promotes the success of the candidate's candidacy or the defeat of the candidate's opponent, or unless the event is during the period that is forty-five days prior to the primary for which the candidate is seeking nomination for election or election to office; (2) membership of the candidate or agent of the candidate in the entity, unless the candidate or agent of the candidate holds an executive or policymaking position within the entity after the candidate becomes a candidate; or (3) financial support for, or solicitation or fundraising on behalf of the entity by a candidate or an agent of the candidate, unless the entity has made or obligated to make independent expenditures in support of such candidate in the election or primary for which the candidate is a candidate.

(d) When the State Elections Enforcement Commission evaluates an expenditure to determine whether such expenditure is an independent expenditure, the commission shall consider, as an effective rebuttal to the presumptions provided in subsection (b) of this section, the establishment by the person making the expenditure of a firewall policy designed and implemented to prohibit the flow of information between (1) employees, consultants or other individuals providing services to the person paying for the expenditure, and (2) the candidate or agents of the candidate.

(P.A. 10-187, S. 2; P.A. 11-139, S. 4; P.A. 13-180, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 10-187 effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 11-139 made a technical change in Subsec. (b)(8), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” in Subdiv. (4), by replacing existing language re an expenditure by a person whose agent serves the person and also serves or served a person or party benefiting from expenditure with language re an expenditure that benefits a candidate made on or after January first in Subdiv. (5) and by adding language re campaign-related vendor and agent of the candidate committee, a limitation re expenditures after January first and language re what is included as a “campaign-related vendor” in Subdiv. (9), added Subsecs. (c) and (d) re the evaluation of an expenditure and made technical changes, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-601d. Making of independent expenditures. Filing of reports. Exceptions. (a) Any person, as defined in section 9-601, may, unless otherwise restricted or prohibited by law, including, but not limited to, any provision of this chapter or chapter 157, make unlimited independent expenditures, as defined in section 9-601c, and accept unlimited covered transfers, as defined in said section 9-601. Except as provided pursuant to this section, any such person who makes or obligates to make an independent expenditure or expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars, in the aggregate, shall file statements according to the same schedule and in the same manner as is required of a treasurer of a candidate committee pursuant to section 9-608.

(b) Any person who makes or obligates to make an independent expenditure or expenditures in an election or primary for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, state senator or state representative, which exceed one thousand dollars, in the aggregate, during a primary campaign or a general election campaign, as defined in section 9-700, shall file, electronically, a long-form and a short-form report of such independent expenditure or expenditures with the State Elections Enforcement Commission pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of this section. The person that makes or obligates to make such independent expenditure or expenditures shall file such reports not later than twenty-four hours after (1) making any such payment, or (2) obligating to make any such payment, with respect to the primary or election. If any such person makes or incurs a subsequent independent expenditure, such person shall report such expenditure pursuant to subsection (d) of this section. Such reports shall be filed under penalty of false statement.

(c) The independent expenditure long-form report shall identify: (1) The name of the person making or obligating to make such independent expenditure or expenditures and, in the case of a person other than an individual, provide a certification that the person making such independent expenditure is not a foreign national; (2) the tax exempt status of such person, if applicable; (3) the mailing address of such person; (4) the principal business address of the person, if different from the mailing address; (5) the address, telephone number and electronic mail address of the agent for service of process in this state of such person; (6) the date of the primary or election for which the independent expenditure or expenditures were made or obligated to be made; (7) the name of any candidate who was the subject of any independent expenditure or expenditures and whether the independent expenditure or expenditures were in support of or in opposition to such candidate; and (8) the name, telephone number and electronic mail address for the individual filing such report. Such individual filing such report shall affirm that the expenditure reported is an independent expenditure under penalty of false statement.

(d) As part of any filing made pursuant to subsection (c) of this section and for each subsequent independent expenditure made or obligated to be made by a person with respect to the primary or election for which a long-form report pursuant to subsection (c) of this section has been filed on behalf of such person, an individual shall file, electronically, a short-form report for each such independent expenditure, not later than twenty-four hours after such person makes a payment for an independent expenditure or obligates to make such an independent expenditure. Such short-form report shall identify: (1) The name of the person making or obligating to make such independent expenditure; (2) the amount of the independent expenditure; (3) whether the independent expenditure was in support of or in opposition to a candidate and the name of such candidate; (4) a brief description of the expenditure made, including the type of communication, based on categories determined by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, and the allocation of such expenditure in support of or in opposition to each candidate, if such expenditure was made in support of or in opposition to more than one candidate; and (5) the name, telephone number and electronic mail address for the individual filing such report. Such individual filing such report shall affirm that the expenditure reported is an independent expenditure under penalty of false statement.

(e) No person reporting an independent expenditure pursuant to the provisions of subsection (c) or (d) of this section shall be required to file a statement pursuant to section 9-608 for such independent expenditure.

(f) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, as part of any statement filed pursuant to this section, if a person who makes or obligates to make an independent expenditure (A) has received a covered transfer during the twelve-month period prior to a primary or election, as applicable to the reported expenditure, for an office that a candidate described in subdivision (7) of subsection (c) of this section is seeking, and (B) such independent expenditure is made or obligated to be made on or after the date that is one hundred eighty days prior to such primary or election, such person shall disclose the source and the amount of any such covered transfer such person received that is in an amount that is five thousand dollars or more, in the aggregate, during the twelve-month period prior to such primary or election, as applicable to the reported expenditure.

(2) The provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not apply to any person who discloses the source and amount of a covered transfer described in subdivision (1) of this subsection as part of any report to the Federal Election Commission or the Internal Revenue Service, provided such person includes a copy of any such report as part of the report of each applicable independent expenditure pursuant to this section. If a source and amount of a covered transfer is not included as part of any such report, the maker of the expenditure shall disclose the source and amount of such covered transfer pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection, if applicable.

(g) (1) A person may, unless otherwise restricted or prohibited by law, including, but not limited to, any provision of this chapter or chapter 157, establish a dedicated independent expenditure account, for the purpose of engaging in independent expenditures, that is segregated from all other accounts controlled by such person. Such dedicated independent expenditure account may receive covered transfers directly from persons other than the person establishing the dedicated account and may not receive transfers from another account controlled by the person establishing the dedicated account, except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection. If an independent expenditure is made from such segregated account, any report required pursuant to this section or disclaimer required pursuant to section 9-621 may include only those persons who made covered transfers directly to the dedicated independent expenditure account.

(2) If a person who has made a covered transfer to another account controlled by the person establishing a dedicated independent expenditure account requests that such covered transfer be used for the purposes of making an independent expenditure from the dedicated independent expenditure account, the amount of such covered transfer may be transferred to the dedicated independent expenditure account and shall be treated as a covered transfer directly to the dedicated independent expenditure account.

(h) Any person may file a complaint with the commission upon the belief that (1) any such independent expenditure report or statement is false, or (2) any person who is required to file an independent expenditure report under this subsection has failed to do so. The commission shall make a prompt determination on such a complaint.

(i) (1) If a person fails to file a report in accordance with the provisions of this section for an independent expenditure or expenditures made or obligated to be made more than ninety days before the day of a primary or election, the person shall be subject to a civil penalty, imposed by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, of not more than ten thousand dollars. If a person fails to file a report required in accordance with the provisions of this section for an independent expenditure or expenditures made or obligated to be made ninety days or less before the day of a primary or election, such person shall be subject to a civil penalty, imposed by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, of not more than twenty thousand dollars.

(2) If any such failure is knowing and wilful, the person responsible for the failure shall also be fined not more than fifty thousand dollars and the commission may refer the matter to the office of the Chief State's Attorney.

(P.A. 13-180, S. 8; P.A. 24-28, S. 3.)

History: P.A. 13-180 effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 24-28 amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding provision re certification of foreign national status for persons other than individuals and making a technical change, effective May 21, 2024.

Sec. 9-601e. Impermissible coordinated expenditure. Liability for penalty. If the State Elections Enforcement Commission finds that an expenditure, as defined in section 9-601b, is coordinated with a candidate committee or candidate or an agent of the candidate, in a manner not permissible under the provisions of this chapter, the candidate, agent of the candidate, if applicable, or treasurer of such committee who participated in or had knowledge of such coordination, shall be jointly and severally liable for paying any penalty levied by the commission under section 9-7b.

(P.A. 13-180, S. 11.)

History: P.A. 13-180 effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-602. (Formerly Sec. 9-333d). Designation of treasurer and depository institution. Certification. Persons authorized to receive contributions. Duties of treasurer. Personal jurisdiction of State Elections Enforcement Commission over nonresidents. (a) Except with respect to an individual acting alone, or with respect to a group of two or more individuals acting together that receives funds or makes or incurs expenditures not exceeding one thousand dollars in the aggregate, no contributions may be made, solicited or received and no expenditures, other than independent expenditures, may be made, directly or indirectly, in aid of or in opposition to the candidacy for nomination or election of any individual or any party or referendum question, unless (1) the candidate or chairman of the committee has filed a designation of a treasurer and a depository institution situated in this state as the depository for the committee's funds, or (2) the candidate has filed a certification in accordance with the provisions of section 9-604. In the case of a political committee, the filing of the statement of organization by the chairman of such committee, in accordance with the provisions of section 9-605, shall constitute compliance with the provisions of this subsection.

(b) No contribution in aid of or in opposition to the candidacy of any person or to any party or referendum question shall be made at any time, except to the committee's treasurer whose designation is on file with the proper authority, a solicitor or a candidate who is exempt from the requirement to form a candidate committee and has filed a certification.

(c) An individual who is designated as treasurer of a committee shall be responsible for all duties required of him under this chapter until the committee is terminated. The treasurer shall be relieved of such duties upon his permanent incapacity, resignation or replacement, provided a statement to that effect is filed with the proper authority, as provided in section 9-603. In the event of the death of the treasurer or after a statement has been filed concerning the treasurer's incapacity, resignation or replacement, if a deputy treasurer has been designated, the deputy treasurer shall be responsible for all duties required of the treasurer under this chapter until the candidate or chairman of the committee files with the proper authority a designation of a successor treasurer. If a deputy treasurer has not been designated, the candidate or chairman shall designate a successor treasurer and file such designation with the proper authority not more than ten days after the death of the treasurer or the filing of the statement of his incapacity, resignation or replacement.

(d) (1) In addition to its jurisdiction over persons who are residents of this state, the State Elections Enforcement Commission may exercise personal jurisdiction over any nonresident person, or the agent of such nonresident person, who makes a payment of money, gives anything of value or makes a contribution or expenditure, in excess of two hundred dollars, to or for the benefit of any committee or candidate.

(2) Where personal jurisdiction is based solely upon this subsection, an appearance does not confer personal jurisdiction with respect to causes of action not arising from an act enumerated in this subsection.

(3) Any nonresident person or the agent of such person over whom the State Elections Enforcement Commission may exercise personal jurisdiction, as provided in subdivision (1) of this subsection, shall be deemed to have appointed the Secretary of the State as the person's or agent's attorney and to have agreed that any process in any complaint, investigation or other matter conducted pursuant to section 9-7b and brought against the nonresident person, or said person's agent, may be served upon the Secretary of the State and shall have the same validity as if served upon such nonresident person or agent personally. The process shall be served upon the Secretary of the State by the officer to whom the same is directed by leaving with or at the office of the Secretary of the State, at least twelve days before any required appearance day of such process, a true and attested copy of such process, and by sending to the nonresident person or agent so served, at the person's or agent's last-known address, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, a like and attested copy with an endorsement thereon of the service upon the Secretary of the State. The Secretary of the State shall keep a record of each such process and the day and hour of service.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 5, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 3, 28; P.A. 96-119, S. 11, 14; P.A. 02-130, S. 5; P.A. 10-187, S. 4; P.A. 13-180, S. 12, 33.)

History: P.A. 91-351 merged former Subdiv. (2) into Subsec. (a)(1), thereby requiring that designation of a campaign treasurer be filed by the candidate or chairman of the committee, added new Subsec. (a)(2) re filing of certification, and amended Subsec. (b) to apply prohibition to contributions re party or referendum question and include in the exception a candidate or group of individuals filing a certification; P.A. 96-119 added new Subsec. (c) re responsibilities and duration of term of campaign treasurer, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 added Subsec. (d) authorizing State Elections Enforcement Commission to exercise personal jurisdiction over certain nonresident persons and agents of such persons, effective May 10, 2002; Sec. 9-333d transferred to Sec. 9-602 in 2007; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (a) by making technical changes, adding group of individuals expending less than $1,000 to exception to requirement to have campaign treasurer and, in Subdiv. (2), deleting provisions re referendum question and amended Subsec. (b) by deleting provisions re referendum question, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “other than independent expenditures”, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-603. (Formerly Sec. 9-333e). Filing of statements and certification. Transfer of administration of campaign finance reporting to State Elections Enforcement Commission. (a) Statements filed by party committees, political committees formed to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question proposing a constitutional convention, constitutional amendment or revision of the Constitution, individual lobbyists, and those political committees and candidate committees formed to aid or promote the success or defeat of any candidate for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, State Comptroller, Attorney General, judge of probate and members of the General Assembly, shall be filed with the State Elections Enforcement Commission. A political committee formed for a slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace shall file statements with the town clerk of the municipality in which the primary is to be held.

(b) Statements filed by political committees formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question to be voted upon by the electors of a single municipality and those political committees or candidate committees formed to aid or promote the success or defeat of any candidate for public office, other than those enumerated in subsection (a) of this section, or the position of town committee member shall be filed only with the town clerk of the municipality in which the election or referendum is to be held. Each unsalaried town clerk shall be entitled to receive ten cents from the town for the filing of each such statement.

(c) A certification of a candidate who is exempt from the requirement of subsection (a) of section 9-604 to form a candidate committee shall be filed with the State Elections Enforcement Commission if the candidate seeks an office enumerated in subsection (a) of this section, or with the town clerk of the municipality in which the election is to be held if the candidate seeks an office other than those enumerated. A certification of a group of individuals who have joined solely to aid or promote a referendum question and who are exempt from the requirement to form a political committee under section 9-605 shall be filed with the town clerk of each municipality in which the referendum is to be held.

(d) On December 31, 2006, the duties of the Secretary of the State concerning the administration of campaign finance reporting under this chapter shall be transferred to the State Elections Enforcement Commission.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 6, 34; P.A. 88-364, S. 15, 123; P.A. 91-351, S. 4, 28; P.A. 93-251, S. 2, 5; P.A. 00-99, S. 33, 154; P.A. 03-241, S. 11; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 21; P.A. 11-48, S. 287.)

History: P.A. 88-364 added language describing the candidate committee as one formed to aid or promote the success or defeat of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor, which had been omitted due to a composition error; P.A. 91-351 added provisions in Subsec. (a) re filing requirements for statements by a town committee and by a political committee formed for a slate of convention delegate candidates, amended Subsec. (b) to require statements filed by committees formed to aid or promote success or defeat of candidate for position of town committee member to be filed in municipality in which election held and added Subsec. (c) re filing requirements for certifications; P.A. 93-251 required statements by individual lobbyists to be filed with office of the secretary of the state, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriff in Subsec. (a), effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (a) by substituting “office of justice of the peace” for “position of convention delegate”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 substituted “State Elections Enforcement Commission” for “Secretary of the State” in Subsecs. (a) and (c), added Subsec. (d) re transfer of duties of Secretary of the State re administration of campaign finance reporting to State Elections Enforcement Commission, and made technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333e transferred to Sec. 9-603 in 2007; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting language re town committee statement filing with town clerk and deleting language re slate in primary for office of justice of the peace filing with commission, effective June 13, 2011.

Sec. 9-604. (Formerly Sec. 9-333f). Formation of committee by candidate. Exceptions. Exploratory committees. Justice of the peace slate candidates. (a) Each candidate for a particular public office or the position of town committee member shall form a single candidate committee for which he shall designate a treasurer and a depository institution situated in this state as the depository for the committee's funds and shall file a committee statement containing such designations, not later than ten days after becoming a candidate, with the proper authority as required by section 9-603. The candidate may also designate a deputy treasurer on such committee statement. The treasurer and any deputy treasurer so designated shall sign a statement accepting such designation which the candidate shall include as part of, or file with, the committee statement.

(b) The formation of a candidate committee by a candidate and the filing of statements pursuant to section 9-608 shall not be required if the candidate files a certification with the proper authority required by section 9-603, not later than ten days after becoming a candidate, and any of the following conditions exist for the campaign: (1) The candidate is one of a slate of candidates whose campaigns are funded solely by a party committee or a political committee formed for a single election or primary and expenditures made on behalf of the candidate's campaign are reported by the committee sponsoring the candidate's candidacy; (2) the candidate finances the candidate's campaign entirely from personal funds and does not solicit or receive contributions, provided if said candidate personally makes an expenditure or expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars to, or for the benefit of, said candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to an office or position, said candidate shall file statements according to the same schedule and in the same manner as is required of a treasurer of a candidate committee under section 9-608; (3) the candidate does not receive or expend funds in excess of one thousand dollars; or (4) the candidate does not receive or expend any funds, including personal funds, for the candidate's campaign. If the candidate no longer qualifies for the exemption under any of these conditions, the candidate shall comply with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, not later than three business days thereafter and shall provide the candidate's designated treasurer with all information required for completion of the treasurer's statements and filings as required by section 9-608. If the candidate no longer qualifies for the exemption due to the condition stated in the candidate's certification but so qualifies due to a different condition specified in this subsection, the candidate shall file an amended certification with the proper authority and provide the new condition for the candidate's qualification not later than three business days following the change in circumstances of the financing of the candidate's campaign. The filing of a certification under this subsection shall not relieve the candidate from compliance with the provisions of this chapter.

(c) The chairman of a political committee formed to support a single candidate for public office shall, not later than seven days after filing a statement of organization with the proper authority under section 9-603, send the candidate a notice, by certified mail, of such filing. If a candidate (1) does not, within fourteen days after receiving such notice, disavow such committee, in writing, to the proper authority under section 9-603, or (2) disavows such committee within such period, but, at any time before such disavowal, accepts funds from the committee for his campaign, such committee shall be deemed to have been authorized by such candidate and shall constitute a candidate committee for the purposes of this chapter. No candidate shall establish, agree to or assist in establishing, or give his consent or authorization to establishing a committee other than a single candidate committee to promote his candidacy for any public office except that a candidate may establish an exploratory committee. The candidate shall designate on the statement of organization for the exploratory committee the type of office to which the candidate is determining whether to seek nomination or election, as follows: (A) The General Assembly, (B) a state office, or (C) any other public office. The candidate may also certify on the statement of organization that the candidate will not be a candidate for the office of state representative. Not later than fifteen days after a public declaration by the candidate of the candidate's intention to seek nomination or election to a particular public office, the candidate shall form a single candidate committee, except that in the case of a candidate establishing an exploratory committee for purposes including aiding or promoting the candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to the General Assembly or a state office, the candidate shall form a single candidate committee not later than fifteen days after the date that the treasurer of such exploratory committee is required to file a notice of intent to dissolve the committee under subsection (f) of section 9-608. As used in this subsection, “state office” has the same meaning as provided in subsection (e) of section 9-610.

(d) A slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace shall designate a chairperson to form a single political committee to comply with the requirements of section 9-605, except if the individuals on the slate unanimously consent to have their campaign financed solely by a town committee and such committee consents to such financing by filing a statement of consent with the town clerk of the municipality in which the primary is to be held.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 7, 34; P.A. 87-576, S. 3, 6; P.A. 88-83, S. 1, 3; P.A. 90-267, S. 2; P.A. 91-351, S. 5, 28; P.A. 94-143, S. 1, 6; P.A. 95-87, S. 2; 95-144, S. 6; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 15, 19; P.A. 02-130, S. 6; P.A. 03-223, S. 7; 03-241, S. 12; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 22; P.A. 08-2, S. 3; P.A. 13-180, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 87-576 added provisions at beginning of Subsec. (c) re whether political committee formed to support single candidate shall be deemed to constitute candidate committee; P.A. 88-83 amended Subsec. (b)(3) by substituting “one thousand” for “five hundred”; P.A. 90-267 amended Subsec. (c) by requiring candidate to designate whether exploratory committee is for determining whether to seek nomination or election to the general assembly or nomination or election to any public office other than general assembly; P.A. 91-351 amended Subsec. (a) to apply to candidate for town committee member, require designation of depository institution and require filing of committee statement containing designations, substantially amended Subsec. (b) re conditions for exemption from candidate committee and filing requirements, applied Subsec. (c) to committee formed to support candidate “for public office” and added Subsec. (d) re slate of candidates in primary for position of delegate to same convention; P.A. 94-143 amended Subsec. (b) by adding “at any time prior to the acceptance of a contribution or making of an expenditure”, deleting requirement condition exist for the entire campaign, deleting provision re deadline for certifying existence of a condition, adding “under any of these conditions” re no longer qualifying for exemption and adding provision re change of condition for qualifying for exemption, effective January 1, 1995, and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; P.A. 95-87 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring that campaign treasurer and deputy campaign treasurer sign statement accepting such designation and that statement be included with committee statement; P.A. 95-144 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision that deputy campaign treasurer serve only in event that campaign treasurer unable to perform his duties and made technical changes to Subsec. (b); June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 amended Subsec. (c) by inserting new Subpara. (B) authorizing single political committee for purpose of determining whether to seek a state office and relettering former Subpara. (B) as Subpara. (C), and amended Subpara. (C) so it applies to any other public office, and by deleting reference to the General Assembly, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (b) by making technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality throughout, by requiring candidate to file statements under Sec. 9-333j if candidate personally makes campaign expenditures in excess of $1,000 in Subdiv. (2) and by changing $500 to $1,000 in Subdiv. (3), effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-223 amended Subsec. (a) by inserting “not later than ten days after becoming a candidate”, amended Subsec. (b) by substituting “not later than ten days after becoming a candidate” for “at any time prior to the acceptance of a contribution or making of an expenditure” and adding Subdiv. (4) re candidate who does not receive or expend any funds, and amended Subsec. (d) by designating existing exception as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re primary for convention delegates to a United States senatorial or congressional district convention, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (d) by substituting “office of justice of the peace” for “position of delegate to the same convention”, deleting provision re candidate committee of candidate for state or district office and making a conforming change, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (c) by substituting “exploratory committee” for provisions re political committee to determine whether to seek nomination or election to a public office, authorizing candidate to certify on statement of organization that candidate will not be candidate for office of state representative and providing for separate deadline for forming candidate committee for candidate establishing exploratory committee for purposes including aiding or promoting candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to General Assembly or state office, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333f transferred to Sec. 9-604 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (d) to remove reference to Secretary of the State and Subdiv. (1) designator and delete former Subdiv. (2) re primaries for convention delegates to United States senatorial or congressional district convention, effective April 7, 2008; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-605. (Formerly Sec. 9-333g). Political committees; designation of treasurer; registration statement, time for filing, contents of statement. Exception. Limits on establishment of political committees. Legislative caucus committees. Legislative leadership committees. (a) The chairperson of each political committee shall designate a treasurer and may designate a deputy treasurer. The treasurer and any deputy treasurer so designated shall sign a statement accepting the designation. The chairperson of each political committee shall file a registration statement described in subsection (b) of this section along with the statement signed by the designated treasurer and deputy treasurer with the proper authority, within ten days after its organization, provided that the chairperson of any political committee organized within ten days prior to any primary, election or referendum in connection with which it intends to make any contributions or expenditures, shall immediately file a registration statement.

(b) The registration statement shall include: (1) The name and address of the committee; (2) a statement of the purpose of the committee; (3) the name and address of its treasurer, and deputy treasurer if applicable; (4) the name, address and position of its chairperson, and other principal officers if applicable; (5) the name and address of the depository institution for its funds; (6) the name of each person, other than an individual, that is a member of the committee; (7) the name and party affiliation of each candidate whom the committee is supporting and the office or position sought by each candidate; (8) if the committee is supporting the entire ticket of any party, a statement to that effect and the name of the party; (9) if the committee is supporting or opposing any referendum question, a brief statement identifying the substance of the question; (10) if the committee is established by a business entity or organization, the name of the business entity or organization and, if the committee is established by a person other than a human being, a certification that the person making the expenditure is not a foreign national; (11) if the committee is established by an organization, whether it will receive its funds from the organization's treasury or from voluntary contributions; (12) if the committee files reports with the Federal Elections Commission or any out-of-state agency, a statement to that effect including the name of the agency; (13) a statement indicating whether the committee is established for a single primary, election or referendum or for ongoing political activities; (14) if the committee is established or controlled by a lobbyist, a statement to that effect and the name of the lobbyist; (15) the name and address of the person making the initial contribution or disbursement, if any, to the committee; and (16) any information that the State Elections Enforcement Commission requires to facilitate compliance with the provisions of this chapter or chapter 157. If no such initial contribution or disbursement has been made at the time of the filing of such statement, the treasurer of the committee shall, not later than forty-eight hours after receipt of such contribution or disbursement, file a report with the State Elections Enforcement Commission. The report shall be in the same form as statements filed under section 9-608.

(c) The treasurer of each political committee shall report any addition to or change in information previously submitted in a statement of organization to the proper authority not later than ten days after the addition or change, provided if an officer of the committee has changed, such amended statement shall be filed by the chairperson of the committee.

(d) A group of two or more individuals who have joined solely to promote the success or defeat of a referendum question shall not be required to file as a political committee, make such designations in accordance with subsections (a) and (b) of this section or file statements pursuant to section 9-608, if the group does not receive or expend in excess of one thousand dollars for the entire campaign. If the group receives funds or makes or incurs expenditures exceeding one thousand dollars in the aggregate, the group shall complete the statement of organization and file as a political committee not later than three business days thereafter. The group shall provide the designated treasurer with all information required for completion of the statements for filing as required by section 9-608.

(e) (1) No individual shall establish or control more than one political committee. The indicia of establishment or control of a political committee by an individual includes the individual serving as chairperson or treasurer of the committee and may include, but shall not be limited to, the individual making the initial contribution to the committee. Such indicia shall not include (A) an individual communicating with (i) an officer of the political committee, or (ii) any individual establishing or controlling the political committee, or (B) the individual monitoring contributions made by the political committee. Any individual who, on December 31, 2006, has established or controls more than one political committee shall, not later than thirty days after said date, disavow all but one of such committees, in writing, to the State Elections Enforcement Commission. The provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to the establishment of an exploratory committee by an elected public official.

(2) The members of the same political party in a house of the General Assembly may establish a single legislative caucus committee. The chairperson of each such committee shall certify the designation of such committee as a legislative caucus committee and shall file such certification along with the statement of organization pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Each such committee shall be identified in such designation by the house of the General Assembly in which such legislators serve and the political party to which they belong. A legislative caucus committee shall not be subject to the limitation in subdivision (1) of this subsection on the establishment or control of one political committee by any individual.

(3) (A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this subdivision, the speaker of the House of Representatives, majority leader of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate and majority leader of the Senate may each establish a single legislative leadership committee, and the minority leader of the House of Representatives and the minority leader of the Senate may each establish two legislative leadership committees. The chairperson of each such committee shall certify the designation of such committee as a legislative leadership committee and shall file such certification along with the statement of organization pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. Each such committee shall be identified in such designation by the General Assembly leader who establishes the committee. A legislative leadership committee shall not be subject to the limitation in subdivision (1) of this subsection on the establishment or control of one political committee by any individual.

(B) The majority leaders-elect and minority leaders-elect of the House of Representatives and Senate may each establish a legislative leadership committee, provided any other leadership committee for the same leadership position held by an individual who is leaving that leadership position declines to accept contributions and the legislative leadership committee for the leader-elect does not accept contributions for the remainder of the calendar year that would otherwise be prohibited if such contributions were directed to the leadership committee of the individual who is leaving that leadership position due to contribution limits on the contributor pursuant to sections 9-610, 9-612 and 9-617.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 8, 34; P.A. 87-524, S. 2, 7; P.A. 88-296, S. 1, 2; P.A. 91-351, S. 6, 28; P.A. 95-144, S. 7; P.A. 96-119, S. 8, 14; P.A. 02-130, S. 7; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 23; P.A. 08-2, S. 4; P.A. 10-187, S. 5; P.A. 13-180, S. 12, 13, 31; P.A. 24-28, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 87-524 added Subsec. (b)(14), re lobbyists; P.A. 88-296 added Subsec. (d) re information required on each check issued by campaign treasurer of a political committee to a committee; P.A. 91-351 inserted “or position” in Subsec. (b)(7), transferred former Subsec. (d) to Sec. 9-333i(m) and added new Subsec. (d) re exemption from political committee and filing requirements for group of individuals joining to promote success or defeat of referendum question; P.A. 95-144 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision that deputy campaign treasurer serve only in event that campaign treasurer unable to perform his duties; P.A. 96-119 added provisions in Subsec. (a) to require the designated campaign treasurer and deputy campaign treasurer to sign and file a statement accepting designation, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (d) by changing $500 to $1,000 re applicable expenditure limit, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (b) to add Subdiv. (15) requiring statement to include name and address of person making initial contribution or disbursement to committee and to require report if no contribution or disbursement has been made at time of filing statement, made a technical change in Subsec. (c) and added Subsec. (e) prohibiting individuals from establishing or controlling more than one political committee and authorizing establishment of limited number of legislative caucus committees and legislative leadership committees, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333g transferred to Sec. 9-605 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 changed “statement of organization” to “registration statement” in Subsecs. (a) and (b) and amended Subsec. (b) to replace “by or on behalf of” with “or controlled by” in Subdiv. (14) and add Subdiv. (16) re information State Elections Enforcement Commission requires to facilitate compliance, effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (d) by deleting provisions re agent filing certification and making conforming changes, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (c) by replacing “chairman” with “treasurer” and adding provision re change of officer and amended Subsec. (e)(3) by designating existing provisions as Subpara. (A), adding exception therein re Subpara. (B) and adding Subpara. (B) re the majority leaders-elect and minority leaders-elect, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, effective June 28, 2013; P.A. 24-28 amended Subsec. (b) by adding provision re certification of foreign national status in Subdiv. (10) and making technical changes, effective May 21, 2024.

Sec. 9-606. (Formerly Sec. 9-333h). Duties and qualifications of treasurers. Appointment and duties of solicitors. (a) The treasurer of each committee shall be responsible for (1) depositing, receiving and reporting all contributions and other funds in the manner specified in section 9-608, (2) making and reporting expenditures, (3) reporting expenses incurred but not yet paid, (4) filing the statements required under section 9-608, and (5) keeping internal records of each entry made on such statements. The treasurer of each committee shall deposit contributions in the committee's designated depository not later than twenty days after receiving them. The treasurer of each political committee or party committee which makes a contribution of goods to another committee shall send written notice to the treasurer of the recipient committee before the close of the reporting period during which the contribution was made. The notice shall be signed by the treasurer of the committee making the contribution and shall include the full name of such committee, the date on which the contribution was made, a complete description of the contribution and the value of the contribution. Any dispute concerning the information contained in such notice shall be resolved by the treasurer of the recipient committee. Such resolution shall not impair in any way the authority of the State Elections Enforcement Commission under section 9-7b. The treasurer of the recipient committee shall preserve each such notice received for the period prescribed by subsection (f) of section 9-607.

(b) A contribution in the form of a check drawn on a joint bank account shall, for the purpose of allocation, be deemed to be a contribution made by the individual who signed the check, except such contribution shall be allocated in accordance with the provisions of a signed statement, if any, from the holders of such joint bank account that indicates how such contribution should be differently allocated. If a check is signed by more than one individual, the total amount of the check shall be divided equally among the cosigners for the purpose of allocation, except such contribution shall be allocated in accordance with the provisions of a signed statement, if any, from the holders of such joint bank account that indicates how such contribution should be differently allocated. If a committee receives an anonymous contribution, the treasurer shall immediately remit the contribution to the State Elections Enforcement Commission for deposit in the General Fund.

(c) The treasurer of each committee, other than a political committee established by an organization which receives its funds from the organization's treasury, may appoint solicitors. If solicitors are appointed, the treasurer shall receive and report all contributions made or promised to each solicitor. Each solicitor shall submit to the treasurer a list of all contributions made or promised to him. The list shall be complete as of seventy-two hours immediately preceding midnight of the day preceding the dates on which the treasurer is required to file a sworn statement as provided in section 9-608. Lists shall be received by the treasurer not later than twenty-four hours immediately preceding each required filing date. Each solicitor shall deposit all contributions with the treasurer, within seven days after receipt. No solicitor shall expend any contributions received by him or disburse such contributions to any person other than the treasurer.

(d) No person shall act as a treasurer or deputy treasurer (1) unless the person is an elector of this state, the person has paid any civil penalties or forfeitures assessed pursuant to chapters 155 to 157, inclusive, and a statement, signed by the chairman in the case of a party committee or political committee or by the candidate in the case of a candidate committee, designating the person as treasurer or deputy treasurer, has been filed in accordance with section 9-603, and (2) if such person has been convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to, in a court of competent jurisdiction, any (A) felony involving fraud, forgery, larceny, embezzlement or bribery, or (B) criminal offense under this title, unless at least eight years have elapsed from the date of the conviction or plea or the completion of any sentence, whichever date is later, without a subsequent conviction of or plea to another such felony or offense. In the case of a political committee, the filing of a statement of organization by the chairman of the committee, in accordance with the provisions of section 9-605, shall constitute compliance with the filing requirements of this section. No provision of this subsection shall prevent the treasurer, deputy treasurer or solicitor of any committee from being the treasurer, deputy treasurer or solicitor of any other committee or prevent any committee from having more than one solicitor, but no candidate shall have more than one treasurer. A candidate shall not serve as the candidate's own treasurer or deputy treasurer, except that a candidate who is exempt from forming a candidate committee under subsection (b) of section 9-604 and has filed a certification that the candidate is financing the candidate's campaign from the candidate's own personal funds or is not receiving or expending in excess of one thousand dollars may perform the duties of a treasurer for the candidate's own campaign.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 9, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 7, 28; P.A. 94-143, S. 2, 6; P.A. 96-119, S. 12, 14; P.A. 02-130, S. 8; P.A. 03-223, S. 1; P.A. 04-112, S. 1; P.A. 11-48, S. 288; P.A. 13-180, S. 5, 12, 25; 13-191, S. 1.)

History: P.A. 91-351 added provisions to Subsec. (a) re notice of contribution of goods from political or party committee to another committee and added conditions at end of Subsec. (d) for candidate to perform duties of campaign treasurer for his own campaign; P.A. 94-143 amended Subsec. (a) by adding Subdiv. designations, adding “depositing” and “and other funds in the manner specified in section 9-333j” in Subdiv. (1), and adding Subdivs. (3) and (5) re reporting of expenses not yet paid and keeping internal records, effective January 1, 1995, and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; P.A. 96-119 amended Subsec. (d) to delete provision requiring the designation statement to include the period for which the appointment is made, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (d) by changing expenditure limit in cases where candidate serves as his or her own campaign treasurer from $500 to $1,000 and by making technical changes, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-223 amended Subsec. (c) by shortening deadline for solicitor to deposit contributions with campaign treasurer from 10 to 7 days after receipt, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 04-112 amended Subsec. (a) by changing deadline for campaign treasurer to deposit contributions from 7 to 14 days after receipt, effective July 1, 2004; Sec. 9-333h transferred to Sec. 9-606 in 2007; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) by adding language re joint bank account and by providing that all anonymous donations, rather than those over $15, be remitted to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, rather than the State Treasurer, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on and after that date; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” and by changing deadline in Subdiv. (5) from “within fourteen days” to “not later than twenty days” and amended Subsec. (d) by adding Subdiv. (1) designator, adding provision re payment of civil penalties or forfeitures in Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re conviction of or plea of guilty or nolo contendere to certain offenses and by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” with “deputy treasurer”, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, in Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 13-191 amended Subsec. (b) by adding exception for allocation in the case of check signed by one individual to be directed by signed statement and, in the case of a check signed by more than one individual, by requiring that the written statement be a signed statement, effective June 21, 2013.

Sec. 9-606a. Terms “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer” substituted for “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer”. (a)(1) Wherever the term “campaign treasurer” is used in the following sections of the general statutes, the term “treasurer” shall be substituted in lieu thereof; and (2) wherever the term “deputy campaign treasurer” is used in the following sections of the general statutes, the term “deputy treasurer” shall be substituted in lieu thereof: 9-7b, 9-602, 9-604, 9-605, 9-606, 9-607, 9-608, 9-609, 9-610, 9-614, 9-622, 9-623, 9-624, 9-675, 9-700, 9-703, 9-704, 9-706, 9-707, 9-709, 9-711 and 9-712.

(b) The Legislative Commissioners' Office shall, in codifying the provisions of this section, make such technical, grammatical and punctuation changes as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.

(P.A. 13-180, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 13-180 effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-607. (Formerly Sec. 9-333i). Making of expenditures. (a) Authorization by treasurer. No financial obligation shall be incurred by a committee unless authorized by the treasurer, except that certain expenditures of a candidate's personal funds may be reimbursed as provided in subsection (k) of this section.

(b) Nonliability for unauthorized debts. No candidate, treasurer, or committee shall be liable for any debt incurred in aid of or in opposition to any political party, referendum question or the candidacy of any person or persons for said offices or positions unless such debt was incurred pursuant to an authorization issued under subsection (a) of this section.

(c) Election day expenditures. On any day on which an election or primary is being held, the treasurer of any committee which functions as a town committee may give a check to one individual in each voting district of the municipality in which the election or primary is being held. The check shall be drawn by the treasurer against the committee's depository institution account to the order of such individual in an amount not to exceed two hundred fifty dollars. Such individual may use the proceeds of the check to make cash expenditures in such voting district for per diem allotments to campaign workers, or expenses incurred by campaign workers on election or primary day, including but not limited to, food, beverages, gasoline and other similar ordinary and necessary expenses. Such individual shall submit to the treasurer, within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, a detailed accounting of all such expenditures. The treasurer shall report the names of all such individuals and the expenditures made by them in accordance with the provisions of section 9-608.

(d) Payment by treasurer. Except as provided in subsections (j) and (k) of this section, no payment in satisfaction of any financial obligation incurred by a committee shall be made by or accepted from any person other than the treasurer and then only according to the tenor of an authorization issued pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(e) Method of payment. Petty cash fund. (1) Any such payment shall be by check drawn by the treasurer, on the designated depository. Any payment in satisfaction of any financial obligation incurred by a committee may also be made by debit card or credit card. In the case of payment made under a contract between a committee and a community antenna television company, as defined in section 16-1, for the purchase of advertisement space, the treasurer of such committee may pay for such services using a bank or cashier's check, as defined in section 42a-3-104, if so required by the contract, provided the treasurer maintains documentation substantiating that the funds used to pay for such advertising space were expended from the committee's funds. (2) The treasurer of each committee may draw a check, not to exceed one hundred dollars, to establish a petty cash fund and may deposit additional funds to maintain it, but the fund shall not exceed one hundred dollars at any time. All expenditures from a petty cash fund shall be reported in the same manner as any other expenditure.

(f) Preservation of internal records, credit card statements and receipts, checks and bank statements. The treasurer shall preserve all internal records of transactions required to be entered in reports filed pursuant to section 9-608 for four years from the date of the report in which the transactions were entered. Internal records required to be maintained in order for any permissible expenditure to be paid from committee funds include, but are not limited to, contemporaneous invoices, receipts, bills, statements, itineraries, or other written or documentary evidence showing the campaign or other lawful purpose of the expenditure. If a committee incurs expenses by credit card, the treasurer shall preserve all credit card statements and receipts for four years from the date of the report in which the transaction was required to be entered. If any checks are issued pursuant to subsection (e) of this section, the treasurer who issues them shall preserve all cancelled checks and bank statements for four years from the date on which they are issued. If debit card payments are made pursuant to subsection (e) of this section, the treasurer who makes said payments shall preserve all debit card slips and bank statements for four years from the date on which the payments are made. In the case of a candidate committee, the treasurer or the candidate, if the candidate so requests, shall preserve all internal records, cancelled checks, debit cards slips and bank statements for four years from the date of the last report required to be filed under subsection (a) of section 9-608.

(g) Permissible expenditures. (1) As used in this subsection, (A) “the lawful purposes of the committee” means: (i) For a candidate committee or exploratory committee, the promoting of the nomination or election of the candidate who established the committee, except that after a political party nominates candidates for election to the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor, whose names shall be so placed on the ballot in the election that an elector will cast a single vote for both candidates, as prescribed in section 9-181, a candidate committee established by either such candidate may also promote the election of the other such candidate; (ii) for a political committee, the promoting of a political party, including party building activities, the success or defeat of candidates for nomination and election to public office or position subject to the requirements of this chapter, or the success or defeat of referendum questions, provided a political committee formed for a single referendum question shall not promote the success or defeat of any candidate, and provided further a legislative leadership committee or a legislative caucus committee may expend funds to defray costs for conducting legislative or constituency-related business which are not reimbursed or paid by the state; and (iii) for a party committee, the promoting of the party, party building activities, the candidates of the party and continuing operating costs of the party, and (B) “immediate family” means a spouse or dependent child of a candidate who resides in the candidate's household.

(2) Unless otherwise provided by this chapter, any treasurer, in accomplishing the lawful purposes of the committee, may pay the expenses of: (A) Advertising in electronic and print media; (B) any other form of printed advertising or communications including “thank you” advertising after the election; (C) campaign items, including, but not limited to, brochures, leaflets, flyers, invitations, stationery, envelopes, reply cards, return envelopes, campaign business cards, direct mailings, postcards, palm cards, “thank you” notes, sample ballots and other similar items; (D) political banners and billboards; (E) political paraphernalia, which is customarily given or sold to supporters including, but not limited to, campaign buttons, stickers, pins, pencils, pens, matchbooks, balloons, pads, calendars, magnets, key chains, hats, tee shirts, sweatshirts, frisbees, pot holders, jar openers and other similar items; (F) purchasing office supplies for campaign or political purposes, campaign photographs, raffle or other fund-raising permits required by law, fund-raiser prizes, postage, express mail delivery services, bulk mail permits, and computer supplies and services; (G) banking service charges to maintain campaign and political accounts; (H) subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals which enhance the candidacy of the candidate or party; (I) lease or rental of office space for campaign or political purposes and expenses in connection therewith including, but not limited to, furniture, parking, storage space, utilities and maintenance, provided a party committee or political committee organized for ongoing political activities may purchase such office space; (J) lease or rental of vehicles for campaign use only; (K) lease, rental or use charges of any ordinary and necessary campaign office equipment including, but not limited to, copy machines, telephones, postage meters, facsimile machines, computer hardware, software and printers, provided a party committee or political committee organized for ongoing political activities may purchase office equipment, and provided further that a candidate committee or a political committee, other than a political committee formed for ongoing political activities or an exploratory committee, may purchase computer equipment; (L) compensation for campaign or committee staff, fringe benefits, payroll taxes and child care services, provided (i) the candidate and any member of his immediate family shall not receive compensation, and (ii) compensation for child care services is reasonable and customary for the services rendered; (M) travel, meals and lodging expenses of speakers, campaign or committee workers, the candidate and the candidate's spouse for political and campaign purposes; (N) fund raising; (O) reimbursements to candidates and campaign or committee workers made in accordance with the provisions of this section for campaign-related expenses for which a receipt is received by the treasurer; (P) campaign or committee services of attorneys, accountants, consultants or other professional persons for campaign activities, obtaining or contesting ballot status, nomination, or election, and compliance with this chapter; (Q) purchasing campaign finance reports; (R) repaying permissible campaign loans made to the committee that are properly reported and refunding contributions received from an impermissible source or in excess of the limitations set forth in this chapter; (S) conducting polls concerning any political party, issue, candidate or individual; (T) gifts to campaign or committee workers or purchasing flowers or other commemorative items for political purposes not to exceed one hundred dollars to any one recipient in a calendar year or for the campaign, as the case may be; (U) purchasing tickets or advertising from charities, inaugural committees, or other civic organizations if for a political purpose, for any candidate, a candidate's spouse, a member of a candidate's campaign staff, or members of committees; (V) the inauguration of an elected candidate by that candidate's candidate committee; (W) hiring of halls, rooms, music and other entertainment for political meetings and events; (X) reasonable compensation for public speakers hired by the committee; (Y) transporting electors to the polls and other get-out-the-vote activities on election day; and (Z) any other necessary campaign or political expense.

(3) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a candidate from purchasing equipment from his personal funds and leasing or renting such equipment to his candidate committee or his exploratory committee, provided the candidate and his treasurer sign a written lease or rental agreement. Such agreement shall include the lease or rental price, which shall not exceed the fair lease or rental value of the equipment. The candidate shall not receive lease or rental payments which in the aggregate exceed his cost of purchasing the equipment.

(4) As used in this subdivision, expenditures for “personal use” include expenditures to defray normal living expenses for the candidate, the immediate family of the candidate or any other individual and expenditures for the personal benefit of the candidate or any other individual having no direct connection with, or effect upon, the campaign of the candidate or the lawful purposes of the committee, as defined in subdivision (2) of this section. No goods, services, funds and contributions received by any committee under this chapter shall be used or be made available for the personal use of any candidate or any other individual. No candidate, committee, or any other individual shall use such goods, services, funds or contributions for any purpose other than campaign purposes permitted by this chapter.

(h) Honoraria, gifts or compensation for elected public officials. No treasurer of a political committee may provide an honorarium to, compensate or make a gift to, any elected public official who is subject to the provisions of this chapter, for any speaking engagement or other services rendered on behalf of such committee, except that the provisions of this subsection shall not apply to: (1) Reimbursement for actual travel expenses or food and beverage for the personal consumption of such public official or members of his immediate family, in connection with the rendering of any such services by the public official; or (2) any contribution made to such public official in connection with his campaign for nomination or election to an office or position included in this chapter, which is reported in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Except as provided in this subsection, no such elected public official may receive any gift, honorarium or compensation from a political committee.

(i) Expenses for election or primary contest. The right of any person to expend money for proper legal expenses in maintaining or contesting the results of any election or primary shall not be affected or limited by the provisions of this chapter or chapter 157, provided only sources eligible to contribute to the candidate for the campaign may contribute to the payment of legal expenses.

(j) Reimbursements to candidates and committee workers. A candidate or his committee worker shall be reimbursed by the treasurer for any permissible expenditure which the candidate or committee worker has paid from his own personal funds if (1) the treasurer authorized the expenditure, (2) the candidate or worker provides the treasurer with a written receipt or other documentary evidence from the vendor proving his payment of the expenditure, and (3) in the case of a reimbursement to the candidate, a detailed accounting of the expenditure is included in the report of the treasurer. Internal records required to be maintained in order for any candidate or committee worker to be reimbursed from committee funds include, but are not limited to, contemporaneous invoices, receipts, bills, statements, itineraries, or other written or documentary evidence showing the campaign or lawful purpose of the expenditure. The treasurer shall preserve all such internal records for the same period of time as required in the case of cancelled checks, except that the treasurer of a candidate committee may, upon request of the candidate, give such internal records to the candidate to keep for such period.

(k) Campaign expenses paid by candidate. A candidate shall report to his treasurer each campaign expenditure of more than fifty dollars which he has made directly from his own personal funds, except those expenditures for his own telephone calls, travel and meals for which the candidate does not seek reimbursement from his committee, by the close of the reporting period in which the expenditures were made. The candidate shall indicate whether or not he expects reimbursement by the committee. The treasurer shall report all such reimbursed and nonreimbursed expenditures as “campaign expenses paid by the candidate” on the sworn financial statements he is required to file in accordance with section 9-608 and in the same manner as committee expenditures.

(l) Political committee checks to committees. Each check issued by the treasurer of a political committee to a candidate committee, party committee or another political committee (1) shall have typed, stamped, or printed other than by hand, on its face, the name and address of the political committee making the contribution and (2) shall legibly indicate the name of the treasurer of the political committee.

(m) Obligations and restrictions imposed on certifying candidates. Any obligation or restriction imposed by this section and sections 9-608, 9-610, 9-611, 9-613, 9-615, 9-616, 9-618, 9-620, 9-621, 9-622 and 9-623 on a treasurer or a candidate committee shall be deemed to be imposed on any candidate who is exempt from forming a candidate committee and has filed a certification pursuant to subsection (b) of section 9-604 with the proper authority.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 10, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 8–10, 28; P.A. 94-143, S. 3, 6; P.A. 95-276, S. 1, 3; P.A. 02-130, S. 9; P.A. 03-241, S. 61; P.A. 04-91, S. 1; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 24; P.A. 06-137, S. 15; P.A. 08-2, S. 5; P.A. 11-48, S. 297; P.A. 13-180, S. 6, 12; P.A. 21-49, S. 4.)

History: P.A. 91-351 inserted “or positions” in Subsec. (b) and “or position” in Subsec. (h), added Subsec. (m) re checks issued by political committee treasurer (formerly Subsec. (d) of Sec. 9-333g) and added Subsec. (n) re obligations and restrictions imposed on candidate who is exempt from forming candidate committee and has filed certification; P.A. 94-143 amended Subsec. (f) by adding provisions re internal records and bank statements, amended Subdiv. (1) of Subsec. (g) by adding “leasing” and provisions re purchasing space or equipment in Subpara. (D), deleting “or supplies” from Subpara. (D) and adding new Subpara. (M) re supplies, amended Subsec. (g)(2) by adding provision re candidate leasing or renting equipment to committee, amended Subsec. (j) by expanding subsection to candidate reimbursement, changing “committee expenditure” to “permissible expenditure”, and adding subdivision designations and Subdiv. (3), deleted Subsecs. (k) and (l) re candidate reimbursement, added new Subsec. (k) re reporting of campaign expenses paid by the candidate, and relettered former Subsecs. (m) and (n) as (l) and (m), effective January 1, 1995, and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; P.A. 95-276 amended Subsec. (g) by designating former provisions as Subdivs. (2) and (3), adding Subdiv. (1) defining “the lawful purposes of his committee” and “immediate family”, revising list of items in Subdiv. (2) for which campaign treasurers may pay expenses, and adding Subdiv. (4) re restrictions on use of goods, services, funds and contributions received by committees, effective January 1, 1996; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (e) by allowing party committee to make payments by debit card and inserting Subdiv. designators and amended Subsec. (f) by requiring preservation of debit card slips and bank statements when debit card payments are made and making technical changes, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (e)(1) to allow payment by any committee, instead of only by party committee, to be made by debit card, amended Subsec. (f) to require preservation of candidate committee debit card slips, and amended Subsec. (g) by adding provision in Subdiv. (1)(A)(i) re expenditures by candidate committees established by candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor who are nominated by same party and making a technical change in Subdiv. (2)(Y), effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 04-91 amended Subsec. (e)(1) by allowing payment to be made by credit card, amended Subsec. (f) by inserting “required to be” re reporting of records of transactions, adding provision re types of internal records required to be maintained and requiring campaign treasurer to preserve credit card statements and receipts for four years, amended Subsec. (g)(4) by redefining expenditures for “personal use”, applying provisions to individual noncandidates, substituting “committee” for “candidate committee” and deleting “expenses incurred in preparation for taking office”, and amended Subsec. (j) by adding “or other documentary evidence” in Subdiv. (2), adding provision re types of internal records required to be maintained and substituting “internal records” for “receipts”, effective July 1, 2004; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (g)(1)(A)(ii) by substituting “legislative caucus committee” for provision re political committee designated by majority of members of political party who are also members of House of Representatives or Senate, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-137 amended Subsec. (g)(2) to increase from $50 to $100 the maximum value of gifts to campaign or committee workers or for purchasing flowers or other commemorative items for political purposes and make a technical change, effective June 6, 2006; Sec. 9-333i transferred to Sec. 9-607 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (i) to include references to primaries and chapter 157 and provide that only sources eligible to contribute to campaign may contribute to legal expenses, effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (e)(1) by adding language re payment made under contract with community antenna television company, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (g)(1) and (2) by making technical changes, adding provisions re promotion of a political party, party building activities and legislative leadership committee and replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer”, effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 21-49 amended Subsec. (g)(2)(L) to add “child care services” before the proviso, designate the existing proviso as Subpara. (L)(i) and add Subpara. (L)(ii) re compensation for child care services, effective July 1, 2021.

Sec. 9-608. (Formerly Sec. 9-333j). Statements to be filed by treasurers. Treatment of surplus or deficit. (a) Filing dates. (1) Each treasurer of a committee, other than a state central committee, shall file a statement, sworn under penalty of false statement with the proper authority in accordance with the provisions of section 9-603, (A) on the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April, July and October, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the statement shall be filed on the next business day, except that in the case of a candidate or exploratory committee established for an office to be elected at a special election, statements pursuant to this subparagraph shall not be required, (B) on the seventh day preceding each regular state election, except that (i) in the case of a candidate or exploratory committee established for an office to be elected at a municipal election, the statement shall be filed on the seventh day preceding a regular municipal election in lieu of such date, except if the candidate's name is not eligible to appear on the ballot, in which case such statement shall not be required, (ii) in the case of a town committee, the statement shall be filed on the seventh day preceding each municipal election in addition to such date, (iii) in the case of a candidate committee in a state election that is required to file any supplemental campaign finance statements pursuant to subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 9-712, such supplemental campaign finance statements shall satisfy the filing requirement under this subdivision, and (iv) in the case of a candidate committee established by a candidate whose name is not eligible to appear on the ballot, such statement shall not be required, and (C) if the committee has made or received a contribution or expenditure in connection with any other election, a primary or a referendum, on the seventh day preceding the election, primary or referendum, except that in the case of a candidate committee in a primary that is required to file statements pursuant to subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (a) of section 9-712, such statements shall satisfy the filing requirement under this subdivision. The statement shall be complete as of eleven fifty-nine o'clock p.m. of the last day of the month preceding the month in which the statement is required to be filed, except that for the statement required to be filed on the seventh day preceding the election, primary or referendum, the statement shall be complete as of eleven fifty-nine o'clock p.m. of the second day immediately preceding the required filing day. The statement shall cover a period to begin with the first day not included in the last filed statement. In the case of a candidate committee, the statement required to be filed in January shall be in lieu of the statement formerly required to be filed within forty-five days following an election.

(2) Each treasurer of a candidate committee established by a candidate in a primary, not later than thirty days after such primary, and each treasurer of a political committee formed for a single primary, election or referendum, not later than forty-five days after any election or referendum not held in November, shall file statements in the same manner as is required of them under subdivision (1) of this subsection. A candidate committee established by a candidate who is unsuccessful in the primary shall not be required to file any statements required under subdivision (1) of this subsection following the primary unless the candidate is eligible to appear on the general election ballot. If the treasurer of a candidate committee established by a candidate, who is unsuccessful in the primary or has terminated his candidacy prior to the primary, distributes all surplus funds within thirty days following the scheduled primary and discloses the distribution on the postprimary statement, such treasurer shall not be required to file any subsequent statement unless the committee has a deficit, in which case he shall file any required statements in accordance with the provisions of subdivision (3) of subsection (e) of this section.

(3) In the case of state central committees, (A) on the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April and July, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, on the next business day, (B) on the twelfth day preceding any regular election, and (C) if the committee has made or received a contribution or expenditure in connection with any other election, or any primary or referendum, on the twelfth day preceding the election, primary or referendum, the treasurer of each such committee shall file with the proper authority, a statement, sworn under penalty of false statement, complete as of the last day of the month immediately preceding the month in which such statement is to be filed in the case of statements required to be filed in January, April and July, and complete as of the nineteenth day preceding an election, primary or referendum in the case of the statement required to be filed on the twelfth day preceding an election, primary or referendum, and in each case covering a period to begin with the first day not included in the last filed statement.

(b) Exemption from filing requirements. The statements required to be filed under subsection (a) of this section and subdivisions (2) and (3) of subsection (e) of this section, shall not be required to be filed by: (1) A candidate committee or political committee formed for a single primary or election until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars for purposes of the primary or election for which such committee was formed; (2) a political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars; or (3) a party or political committee organized for ongoing political activities until such committee receives or expends an amount in excess of one thousand dollars for the calendar year except the statements required to be filed on the tenth calendar day in the month of January and on the seventh day preceding any election shall be so filed. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to state central committees or to the statement required to be filed by an exploratory committee upon its termination. A committee which is exempted from filing statements under the provisions of this subsection shall file in lieu thereof a statement sworn under penalty of false statement, indicating that the committee has not received or expended an amount in excess of one thousand dollars.

(c) Content of statements. (1) Each statement filed under subsection (a), (e) or (f) of this section shall include, but not be limited to: (A) An itemized accounting of each contribution, if any, including the full name and complete address of each contributor and the amount of the contribution; (B) an itemized accounting of each expenditure, if any, including the full name and complete address of each payee, including secondary payees whenever the primary or principal payee is known to include charges which the primary payee has already paid or will pay directly to another person, vendor or entity, the amount and the purpose of the expenditure, the candidate supported or opposed by the expenditure, whether the expenditure is made independently of the candidate supported or is an in-kind contribution to the candidate, and a statement of the balance on hand or deficit, as the case may be; (C) an itemized accounting of each expense incurred but not paid, provided if the expense is incurred by use of a credit card, the accounting shall include secondary payees, and the amount owed to each such payee; (D) the name and address of any person who is the guarantor of a loan to, or the cosigner of a note with, the candidate on whose behalf the committee was formed, or the treasurer in the case of a party committee or a political committee or who has advanced a security deposit to a telephone company, as defined in section 16-1, for telecommunications service for a committee; (E) for each business entity or person purchasing advertising space in a program for a fund-raising affair or on signs at a fund-raising affair, the name and address of the business entity or the name and address of the person, and the amount and aggregate amounts of such purchases; (F) for each individual who contributes in excess of one hundred dollars but not more than one thousand dollars, in the aggregate, to the extent known, the principal occupation of such individual and the name of the individual's employer, if any; (G) for each individual who contributes in excess of one thousand dollars in the aggregate, the principal occupation of such individual and the name of the individual's employer, if any; (H) for each itemized contribution made by a lobbyist, the spouse of a lobbyist or any dependent child of a lobbyist who resides in the lobbyist's household, a statement to that effect; and (I) for each individual who contributes in excess of four hundred dollars in the aggregate to or for the benefit of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of chief executive officer or a slate or town committee financing the nomination or election or a candidate for chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, a statement indicating whether the individual or a business with which he is associated has a contract with said municipality that is valued at more than five thousand dollars. Each treasurer shall include in such statement (i) an itemized accounting of the receipts and expenditures relative to any testimonial affair held under the provisions of section 9-609 or any other fund-raising affair, which is referred to in subsection (b) of section 9-601a, and (ii) the date, location and a description of the affair, except that a treasurer shall not be required to include the name of any individual who has purchased items at a fund-raising affair or food at a town fair, county fair or similar mass gathering, if the cumulative value of items purchased by such individual does not exceed one hundred dollars, or the name of any individual who has donated food or beverages for a meeting. A treasurer shall not be required to report or retain any receipts or expenditures related to any de minimis donations described in subdivision (17) of subsection (b) of section 9-601a.

(2) Each contributor described in subparagraph (F), (G), (H) or (I) of subdivision (1) of this subsection shall, at the time the contributor makes such a contribution, provide the information that the treasurer is required to include under said subparagraph in the statement filed under subsection (a), (e) or (f) of this section. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b, any contributor described in subparagraph (F) of subdivision (1) of this subsection who does not provide such information at the time the contributor makes such a contribution and any treasurer shall not be subject to the provisions of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b. If a treasurer receives a contribution from an individual which separately, or in the aggregate, is in excess of one thousand dollars and the contributor has not provided the information required by said subparagraph (G) or if a treasurer receives a contribution from an individual to or for the benefit of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, which separately, or in the aggregate, is in excess of four hundred dollars and the contributor has not provided the information required by said subparagraph (I), the treasurer: (i) Not later than three business days after receiving the contribution, shall send a request for such information to the contributor by certified mail, return receipt requested; (ii) shall not deposit the contribution until the treasurer obtains such information from the contributor, notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-606; and (iii) shall return the contribution to the contributor if the contributor does not provide the required information not later than fourteen days after the treasurer's written request or the end of the reporting period in which the contribution was received, whichever is later. Any failure of a contributor to provide the information which the treasurer is required to include under said subparagraph (F) or (H), which results in noncompliance by the treasurer with the provisions of said subparagraph (F) or (H), shall be a complete defense to any action against the treasurer for failure to disclose such information.

(3) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (2) of this subsection, each contributor who makes a contribution to a candidate or exploratory committee for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State, State Treasurer, state senator or state representative, any political committee authorized to make contributions to such candidates or committees, and any party committee that separately, or in the aggregate, exceeds fifty dollars shall provide with the contribution: (A) The name of the contributor's employer, if any; (B) the contributor's status as a communicator lobbyist, as defined in section 1-91, a member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist, a state contractor, a prospective state contractor or a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor, as defined in section 9-612; and (C) a certification that the contributor is not prohibited from making a contribution to such candidate or committee. The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall prepare a sample form for such certification by the contributor and shall make it available to treasurers and contributors. Such sample form shall include an explanation of the terms “communicator lobbyist”, “principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor”, “immediate family”, “state contractor” and “prospective state contractor”. The information on such sample form shall be included in any written solicitation conducted by any such committee. If a treasurer receives such a contribution and the contributor has not provided such certification, the treasurer shall: (i) Not later than three business days after receiving the contribution, send a request for the certification to the contributor by certified mail, return receipt requested; (ii) not deposit the contribution until the treasurer obtains the certification from the contributor, notwithstanding the provisions of section 9-606; and (iii) return the contribution to the contributor if the contributor does not provide the certification not later than fourteen days after the treasurer's written request or at the end of the reporting period in which the contribution was received, whichever is later. No treasurer shall be required to obtain and keep more than one certification from each contributor, unless information certified to by the contributor, other than the amount contributed, changes. If a treasurer deposits a contribution based on a certification that is later determined to be false, the treasurer shall have a complete defense to any action, including but not limited to, any complaint investigated by the State Elections Enforcement Commission or any other investigation initiated by said commission, against such treasurer for the receipt of such contribution.

(4) Contributions from a single individual to a treasurer in the aggregate totaling fifty dollars or less need not be individually identified in the statement, but a sum representing the total amount of all such contributions made by all such individuals during the period to be covered by such statement shall be a separate entry, identified only by the words “total contributions from small contributors”.

(5) Each statement filed by the treasurer of a party committee, a legislative caucus committee or a legislative leadership committee shall include an itemized accounting of each organization expenditure made by the committee. Concomitant with the filing of any such statement containing an accounting of an organization expenditure made by the committee for the benefit of any candidate for the office of state senator, state representative, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the State, State Comptroller or State Treasurer such treasurer shall provide notice of the organization expenditure to the candidate committee of such candidate.

(6) The commission shall post a link on the home page of the commission's Internet web site to a listing of all organizational expenditures reported by a party, legislative leadership or caucus committee under subdivision (5) of this subsection. Such information shall include reported information on the committee making the expenditure, the committee receiving the expenditure and the date and purpose for the expenditure.

(7) Statements filed in accordance with this section shall remain public records of the state for five years from the date such statements are filed.

(d) Duplicate statement for candidate or chairman. Timely filing. At the time of filing statements required under this section, the treasurer of each candidate committee shall send to the candidate a duplicate statement and the treasurer of each party committee and each political committee other than an exploratory committee shall send to the chairman of the committee a duplicate statement. Each statement required to be filed with the commission under this section, section 9-601d, section 9-706 or section 9-712 shall be deemed to be filed in a timely manner if: (1) For a statement filed as a hard copy, including, but not limited to, a statement delivered by the United States Postal Service, courier service, parcel service or hand delivery, the statement is received by the commission by five o'clock p.m. on the day the statement is required to be filed, (2) for a statement authorized by the commission to be filed electronically, including, but not limited to, a statement filed via dedicated electronic mail, facsimile machine, a web-based program created by the commission or other electronic means, the statement is transmitted to the commission not later than eleven fifty-nine o'clock p.m. on the day the statement is required to be filed, or (3) for a statement required to be filed pursuant to section 9-601d, section 9-706 or section 9-712, by the deadline specified in each such section. Any other filing required to be filed with a town clerk pursuant to this section shall be deemed to be filed in a timely manner if it is delivered by hand to the office of the town clerk in accordance with the provisions of section 9-603 before four-thirty o'clock p.m. or postmarked by the United States Postal Service before midnight on the required filing day. If the day for any filing falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the statement shall be filed on the next business day thereafter. The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall not levy a penalty upon a treasurer for failure to file a hard copy of a statement in a timely manner in accordance with the provisions of this section if such treasurer has a copy of the statement time stamped by the State Elections Enforcement Commission that shows timely receipt of the statement or the treasurer has a return receipt from the United States Postal Service or a similar receipt from a commercial delivery service confirming timely delivery of such statement was made or should have been made to said commission.

(e) Distribution or expenditure from surplus funds. Reporting re deficits. (1) Notwithstanding any provisions of this chapter, in the event of a surplus the treasurer of a candidate committee or of a political committee, other than a political committee formed for ongoing political activities or an exploratory committee, shall distribute or expend such surplus not later than ninety days, or for the purposes of subparagraph (H) of this subdivision, one hundred twenty days after a primary which results in the defeat of the candidate, an election or referendum not held in November or by March thirty-first following an election or referendum held in November, or for the purposes of subparagraph (H) of this subdivision, June thirtieth following an election or referendum held in November, in the following manner:

(A) Such committees may distribute their surplus to a party committee, or a political committee organized for ongoing political activities, return such surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, distribute all or any part of such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701, distribute such surplus to any charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or, in the case of a candidate committee for any candidate, other than a participating candidate, distribute such surplus to an organization under Section 501(c)(19) of said code, as from time to time amended, provided (i) no candidate committee may distribute such surplus to a committee which has been established to finance future political campaigns of the candidate, (ii) a candidate committee which received moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund shall distribute such surplus to such fund, and (iii) a candidate committee for a nonparticipating candidate, as described in subsection (b) of section 9-703, may only distribute any such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund or to a charitable organization;

(B) Each such political committee established by an organization which received its funds from the organization's treasury shall return its surplus to its sponsoring organization;

(C) (i) Each political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question, which does not receive contributions from a business entity or an organization, shall distribute its surplus to a party committee, to a political committee organized for ongoing political activities, to a national committee of a political party, to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, to state or municipal governments or agencies or to any organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended. (ii) Each political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question, which receives contributions from a business entity or an organization, shall distribute its surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution, to state or municipal governments or agencies, or to any organization which is tax-exempt under said provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, a committee formed for a single referendum shall not be required to expend its surplus not later than ninety days after the referendum and may continue in existence if a substantially similar referendum question on the same issue will be submitted to the electorate within six months after the first referendum. If two or more substantially similar referenda on the same issue are submitted to the electorate, each no more than six months apart, the committee shall expend such surplus within ninety days following the date of the last such referendum;

(D) The treasurer of the candidate committee of a candidate who is elected to office may, upon the authorization of such candidate, expend surplus campaign funds to pay for the cost of clerical, secretarial or other office expenses necessarily incurred by such candidate in preparation for taking office; except such surplus shall not be distributed for the personal benefit of any individual or to any organization;

(E) The treasurer of a candidate committee, or of a political committee, other than a political committee formed for ongoing political activities or an exploratory committee, shall, prior to the dissolution of such committee, either (i) distribute any equipment purchased, including, but not limited to, computer equipment, to any recipient as set forth in subparagraph (A) of this subdivision, or (ii) sell any equipment purchased, including but not limited to computer equipment, to any person for fair market value and then distribute the proceeds of such sale to any recipient as set forth in said subparagraph (A);

(F) The treasurer of a qualified candidate committee may, following an election or unsuccessful primary, provide a post-primary thank you meal or a post-election thank you meal for committee workers, provided such meal (i) occurs not later than fourteen days after the applicable election or primary day, and (ii) the cost for such meal does not exceed thirty dollars per worker;

(G) The treasurer of a qualified candidate committee may, following an election or unsuccessful primary, exclusive of any payments that have been rendered pursuant to a written service agreement, make payment to a treasurer for services rendered to the candidate committee, provided such payment does not exceed one thousand dollars; and

(H) The treasurer of a candidate committee may, following an election or unsuccessful primary, utilize funds for the purpose of complying with any audit conducted by the State Elections Enforcement Commission pursuant to subdivision (5) of subsection (a) of section 9-7b.

(2) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, the treasurer of the candidate committee of a candidate who has withdrawn from a primary or election may, prior to the primary or election, distribute its surplus to any organization which is tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or return such surplus to all contributors to the committee on a prorated basis of contribution.

(3) Not later than seven days after such distribution or not later than seven days after all funds have been expended in accordance with subparagraph (D) of subdivision (1) of this subsection, the treasurer shall file a supplemental statement, sworn under penalty of false statement, with the proper authority, identifying all further contributions received since the previous statement and explaining how any surplus has been distributed or expended in accordance with this section. No surplus may be distributed or expended until after the election, primary or referendum.

(4) In the event of a deficit, the treasurer shall file a supplemental statement ninety days after an election, primary or referendum not held in November or on the seventh calendar day in February, or the next business day if such day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, after an election or referendum held in November, with the proper authority and, thereafter, on the seventh day of each month following if on the last day of the previous month there was an increase or decrease in the deficit in excess of five hundred dollars from that reported on the last statement filed. The treasurer shall file such supplemental statements as required until the deficit is eliminated. If any such committee does not have a surplus or a deficit, the statement required to be filed not later than forty-five days following any election or referendum not held in November or on the seventh calendar day in January, or the next business day if such day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, following an election or referendum held in November, or not later than thirty days following any primary shall be the last required statement.

(f) Dissolution of exploratory committee. If an exploratory committee has been established by a candidate pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604, the treasurer of the committee shall file a notice of intent to dissolve it with the appropriate authority not later than fifteen days after the candidate's declaration of intent to seek nomination or election to a particular public office, except that in the case of an exploratory committee established by a candidate for purposes that include aiding or promoting the candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to the General Assembly or a state office, the treasurer of the committee shall file such notice of intent to dissolve the committee not later than fifteen days after the earlier of: (1) The candidate's declaration of intent to seek nomination or election to a particular public office, (2) the candidate's endorsement at a convention, caucus or town committee meeting, or (3) the candidate's filing of a candidacy for nomination under section 9-400 or 9-405. The treasurer shall also file a statement identifying all contributions received or expenditures made by the exploratory committee since the previous statement and the balance on hand or deficit, as the case may be. In the event of a surplus, the treasurer shall, not later than the filing of the statement, distribute the surplus to the candidate committee established pursuant to said section, except that (A) in the case of a surplus of an exploratory committee established by a candidate who intends to be a participating candidate, as defined in section 9-703, in the Citizens' Election Program, the treasurer may distribute to the candidate committee only that portion of such surplus that is attributable to contributions that meet the criteria for qualifying contributions for the candidate committee under section 9-704 and shall distribute the remainder of such surplus to the Citizens' Election Fund established in section 9-701, and (B) in the case of a surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to an office other than the General Assembly or a state office (i) the treasurer may only distribute to the candidate committee for nomination or election to the General Assembly or state office of such candidate that portion of such surplus which is in excess of the total contributions which the exploratory committee received from lobbyists or political committees established by lobbyists, during any period in which the prohibitions in subsection (e) of section 9-610 apply, and (ii) any remaining amount shall be returned to all such lobbyists and political committees established by or on behalf of lobbyists, on a prorated basis of contribution, or distributed to any charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended. If the candidate decides not to seek nomination or election to any office, the treasurer shall, within fifteen days after such decision, comply with the provisions of this subsection and distribute any surplus in the manner provided by this section for political committees other than those formed for ongoing political activities, except that if the surplus is from an exploratory committee established by the State Treasurer, any portion of the surplus that is received from a principal of an investment services firm or a political committee established by such firm shall be returned to such principal or committee on a prorated basis of contribution. In the event of a deficit, the treasurer shall file a statement thirty days after the decision or declaration with the proper authority and, thereafter, on the seventh day of each month following if on the last day of the previous month there was an increase or decrease in such deficit in excess of five hundred dollars from that reported on the last statement filed. The treasurer shall file supplemental statements until the deficit is eliminated. If the exploratory committee does not have a surplus or deficit, the statement filed after the candidate's declaration or decision shall be the last required statement. If a candidate certifies on the statement of organization for the exploratory committee pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604 that the candidate will not be a candidate for the office of state representative and subsequently establishes a candidate committee for the office of state representative, the treasurer of the candidate committee shall pay to the State Treasurer, for deposit in the General Fund, an amount equal to the portion of any contribution received by said exploratory committee that exceeded two hundred fifty dollars. As used in this subsection, “principal of an investment services firm” has the meaning set forth in subsection (e) of section 9-612 and “state office” has the same meaning set forth in subsection (e) of section 9-610.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 11, 34; P.A. 87-161; 87-524, S. 3, 7; 87-576, S. 4, 6; P.A. 88-83, S. 2, 3; P.A. 89-211, S. 17; P.A. 90-267, S. 3; P.A. 91-351, S. 11, 28; 91-407, S. 36, 42; P.A. 92-246, S. 3, 5; P.A. 93-251, S. 3, 5; P.A. 94-143, S. 4, 6; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 8, 16, 19; P.A. 02-130, S. 18; P.A. 03-223, S. 3–5; 03-241, S. 60, 62; P.A. 04-91, S. 2; P.A. 05-235, S. 24; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 25, 26; P.A. 06-137, S. 18, 30; P.A. 07-1, S. 3; P.A. 08-2, S. 6, 7; P.A. 11-48, S. 289, 290; P.A. 13-180, S. 12, 14, 15, 23, 35; P.A. 16-203, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 87-161 amended Subsec. (e)(1)(A) to allow committees included under Subdiv. (1) to distribute their surpluses to tax-exempt charitable organizations; P.A. 87-524, in Subsec. (c), added Subsec. (c)(1)(F), re an individual who contributes in excess of $1,000 in the aggregate, and (c)(1)(G), re itemized contributions by a lobbyist, added new Subsec. (c)(2) requiring contributors described in said Subparas. (F) and (G) to provide required information to campaign treasurer and providing that failure to do so is complete defense to action against campaign treasurer, and renumbered remaining Subdivs. accordingly; P.A. 87-576 amended Subsec. (a)(2) to set forth conditions under which campaign treasurer of candidate committee established by candidate shall not be required to file any subsequent statement; P.A. 88-83 amended Subsec. (b) to raise the filing threshold for statements from $500 or, in the case of a referendum question, from $0.10 for each resident of the voting district or districts, to $1,000; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; P.A. 90-267 added provisions in Subsec. (f) re distribution of surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to an office other than the general assembly; P.A. 91-351 divided Subsec. (a) into Subparas. and added Subpara. (B)(i) and (ii) re exceptions to requirement that committees file on seventh day preceding an election, amended Subsec. (c)(2) by adding provisions re failure to provide required information in case of contribution in excess of $1,000, designated former Subsec. (e)(1)(C) as clause (i) and limited its application to political committee which does not receive contributions from a business entity or an organization and added clause (ii) re political committee which receives such contributions, added new Subsec. (e)(2) re distribution of surplus by candidate who withdraws prior to primary or election and renumbered former Subdivs. (2) and (3) as (3) and (4); P.A. 91-407 amended Subsec. (c) to require name and address of person who has advanced security deposit to telephone company to be included in statement; P.A. 92-246 added Subsec. (c)(1)(F) requiring reporting of purchases of advertising space in a fund-raising affair program and relettered former Subparas. (F) and (G) accordingly; P.A. 93-251 inserted reference to Subsec. (g) of Sec. 9-333l(g) in Subsec. (d), effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-143 added Subsec. (e)(1)(E) re distribution and sale of purchased equipment, effective January 1, 1995 and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 amended Subsec. (c)(1)(C) by requiring statement to include candidate supported or opposed by expenditure and whether expenditure is independent or in-kind, added new Subsec. (c)(1)(G) re reporting of occupation and employer of certain contributors and relettered remaining Subparas. and amended Subsec. (c)(2) by exempting from Sec. 9-7b(2) any contributor who does not provide information required by Subsec. (c)(1)(G), effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998 and added provisions in Subsec. (f) re surplus of an exploratory committee established for nomination or election to a state office, effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (f) by adding exception re distribution of surplus from exploratory committee established by State Treasurer and defining “principal of an investment services firm”, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-223 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to require that January, April, July and October statements be filed on seventh calendar day of month instead of second Thursday, that statements be complete as of last day of preceding month, except for statements required to be filed on seventh day preceding election, primary or referendum and that January candidate committee statement be in lieu of statement formerly required to be filed within 45 days following election, and to eliminate exception re period covered by January party or political committee statement, amended Subsec. (a)(2) to eliminate statement required within 45 days following election and to require political committee statement to be filed only after election or referendum “not held in November”, amended Subsec. (c)(1)(F) by eliminating requirement that statement include name of chief executive officer of business entity purchasing advertising space in fund-raising affair program and further amended Subsec. (c)(1) by adding “, which is referred to in subsection (b) of section 9-333b, and (ii) the date, location and a description of the affair”, amended Subsec. (e)(1) by applying 90-day deadline for distribution or expenditure of surplus to an election or referendum “not held in November” and providing for January thirty-first deadline for election or referendum held in November, and amended Subsec. (e)(4) by applying 90 and 45-day deadlines to elections, primaries and referenda “not held in November” and providing February or January deadlines for elections and referenda held in November, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 03-241 added Subsec. (c)(1)(J) re disclosure of certain municipal contracts by certain contributors to candidates for office of chief executive officer of a city, town or borough, amended Subsec. (c)(2) to extend provisions to contributors and contributions described in Subsec. (c)(1)(J) and made technical changes, and, effective July 1, 2003, amended Subsec. (e)(1) to allow continuation of committee formed for a single referendum if a substantially similar referendum question will be submitted to electorate within six months in Subpara. (C) and to make technical changes; P.A. 04-91 amended Subsec. (c)(1)(C) and (D) by adding provisions requiring accounting to include secondary payees, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-235 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(A) to change deadlines for filing statements for a committee, other than a state central committee, from seventh to tenth calendar day in January, April, July and October and amended Subsec. (a)(3) to insert subpara. designators and change deadlines for filing statements for state central committee from January thirtieth, April tenth and July tenth to “the tenth calendar day in the months of January, April and July, provided, if such tenth calendar day is a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, on the next business day”, effective July 1, 2005; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (c) by redesignating existing Subdivs. (3) and (4) as Subdivs. (4) and (6), respectively, adding new Subdiv. (3) re requirement of certification that contributor is not a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor, changing $30 to $50 in redesignated Subdiv. (4) and adding Subdiv. (5) requiring statement filed by party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee to include accounting of each organization expenditure made by the committee, amended Subsec. (e) to make technical changes and, in Subdiv. (1)(A), to authorize committees to distribute surplus to Citizens' Election Fund and require candidate committee receiving moneys from the fund to distribute surplus to the fund, and amended Subsec. (f) to require separate deadline for filing notice of intent to dissolve exploratory committee established by candidate for purposes including aiding or promoting candidate's candidacy for nomination or election to General Assembly or a state office, to provide exception for distribution of surplus of exploratory committee established by candidate who intends to be participating candidate in Citizens' Election Program, to add provision re candidate who certifies on exploratory committee statement of organization that candidate will not be candidate for office of state representative and subsequently establishes candidate committee for said office, to define “state office” and to make technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-137 amended Subsec. (c)(5) to add requirement re notice to be given of organization expenditure made by the committee for the benefit of a participating candidate for the office of state senator or state representative to the candidate committee of such candidate, and added new Subsec. (c)(6) re notice by candidate committee who received benefit of organization expenditure to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, redesignating existing Subdiv. (6) as Subdiv. (7), and amended Subsec. (e)(1)(A) by adding provision re surplus distribution restrictions applicable to candidate committee for a nonparticipating candidate, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333j transferred to Sec. 9-608 in 2007; P.A. 07-1 amended Subsec. (c)(3) to indicate to whom contributions are made, change “one hundred dollars” to “fifty dollars”, include provision re preparation of sample form for certification by State Elections Enforcement Commission and make technical changes, effective February 8, 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (b)(3) to change “second Thursday” to “tenth calendar day” and amended Subsec. (c)(1)(H) to eliminate provision re statement indicating whether individual or business with which he is associated has contract with the state valued at $5,000 or more, effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, by adding provision in Subpara. (B) re candidate required to file a statement pursuant to Sec. 9-712(a)(1) and (2), by adding exception re statements filed pursuant to Sec. 9-712(a)(1) and (2) in Subpara. (C), by specifying that statement shall be complete as of eleven fifty-nine o'clock p.m. on the last day of month preceding month in which statement is required to be filed, and by changing “seven days immediately preceding” to “eleven fifty-nine o'clock p.m. of the second day immediately preceding”, amended Subsec. (c) by making technical changes throughout, amended Subsec. (c)(1) by deleting former Subpara. (B) re anonymous contributions, by redesignating Subparas. (C) to (J) as Subparas. (B) to (I), by adding language re signs in Subpara. (E), by adding language re slate or town committee in Subpara. (I), and by adding exception re items purchased that do not exceed $100 cumulatively, amended Subsec. (c)(3) by replacing language re certification that contributor is not a communicator lobbyist, a communicator lobbyist's family member or a principal or prospective state contractor with Subparas. (A) to (C) re names, status and certification that contributor is not prohibited, by replacing “principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor” with “principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor”, by adding “immediate family”, “state contractor” and “prospective state contractor” re explanation of terms, by redesignating Subparas. (A) to (C) as clauses (i) to (iii), by adding language permitting retention of one certification from each contributor and by replacing “not be in violation of this subdivision” with language re complete defense, amended Subsec. (c)(5) by replacing “a participating candidate” with “any candidate”, by including candidates for offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of the State, State Comptroller and State Treasurer and by deleting “the amount and purpose of”, amended Subsec. (c)(6) by replacing language re filing a statement if benefit of an organization expenditure has been received with language re posting a link on commission's home page to a listing of organizational expenditures, amended Subsec. (d) by making technical changes, by replacing “and subsection (g) of section 9-610” with “subsection (e) of section 9-612, section 9-706 or section 9-712” and by adding provisions re when statements deemed filed in a timely manner with commission or town clerk, and amended Subsec. (e)(1) by adding provisions re purposes of Subpara. (H), by adding Subparas. (F) to (H), and by making a technical change, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by adding exception re special elections in Subdiv. (1)(A), adding exception re ineligibility to appear on ballot in Subdiv. (1)(B)(i), adding clause (iv) re ineligibility to appear on ballot in Subdiv. (1)(B), adding provision re unsuccessful primary candidate in Subdiv. (2), adding “regular” in Subdiv. (3)(B), adding Subdiv. (3)(C) re contribution or expenditure in connection with any other election, primary or referendum, adding references to “primary or referendum” in Subdiv. (3), replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” and making technical changes, amended Subsec. (d) by replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, replacing references to Sec. 9-612(e) with references to Sec. 9-601d and adding provision re commission not to levy penalty for failure to file in a timely manner if treasurer has stamp or receipt showing timely receipt, amended Subsec. (e)(1) by adding provision re surplus distribution to a 501(c)(19) organization in Subpara. (A), adding provision excluding payments rendered pursuant to a written service agreement in Subpara. (G) and replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, and amended Subsec. (f) by replacing reference to Sec. 9-612(f) with reference to Sec. 9-612(e), effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” in Subsecs. (c), (e)(2) to (4) and (f), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 16-203 amended Subsec. (d) to replace “timely receipt of such statement by said commission” with “timely delivery of such statement was made or should have been made to said commission” and make technical changes, effective June 7, 2016.

See Sec. 1-2a re construction of references to “United States mail”, “postmark” or “registered or certified mail”.

Sec. 9-609. (Formerly Sec. 9-333k). Party committees; designation as treasurer. Limitation on multiple committees. Fund-raising events and testimonial affairs. (a) The chairman of each party committee shall designate a treasurer and may designate a deputy treasurer, or in the case of a state central committee, not more than two deputy treasurers. The treasurer and any deputy treasurers so designated shall sign a statement accepting the designation, which shall be filed with the proper authority with the statement of designation required under subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 9-602. No state central committee or town committee shall establish a committee other than a single party committee for purposes of this chapter. A party committee or a political committee organized for ongoing political activities shall form no other political committees, except that two or more such committees may join to form a political committee for the purpose of a single fund-raising event.

(b) As used in this subsection, “testimonial affair” means an affair held in honor of an individual who holds, or who is or was a candidate for nomination or election to, an office subject to this chapter. No testimonial affair shall be held without the consent of such person. No testimonial affair shall be held for a candidate, or for an individual who holds any such office during the term of such office, except to raise funds on the candidate's behalf, or on behalf of a party committee, for purposes authorized in this chapter. A testimonial affair which is held by an organization duly organized for charitable purposes shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter. A testimonial affair which is held for an individual upon his retirement from public office shall also be exempt from the provisions of this chapter unless a deficit exists from any such individual's campaigns for election or nomination to an office subject to this chapter. Any fund-raising affair for any candidate or individual who holds any such office for any purposes other than those authorized in this chapter shall be prohibited. Any person who organizes such a fund-raising affair shall be in violation of this section.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 12, 34; 86-240, S. 5, 12; P.A. 95-144, S. 8; P.A. 96-119, S. 9, 14; P.A. 11-48, S. 296; P.A. 13-180, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 86-240 amended Subsec. (a) to permit chairman of state central committee to appoint two deputy campaign treasurers; P.A. 95-144 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision that deputy campaign treasurer or treasurers serve only in event that campaign treasurer unable to perform his duties; P.A. 96-119 added provisions in Subsec. (a) to require the designated campaign treasurer and deputy campaign treasurer to sign and file a statement accepting designation, effective January 1, 1997; Sec. 9-333k transferred to Sec. 9-609 in 2007; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “his behalf” with “the candidate's behalf, or on behalf of a party committee”, effective January 1, 2012, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, in Subsec. (a), effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-610. (Formerly Sec. 9-333l). Expense sharing by committees. Candidate's expenditures. Use of public funds by incumbent or for promotional campaign or advertisement. Restrictions on lobbyist contributions and solicitations. (a) Any provision of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, a candidate committee may join with one or more candidate committees to establish a political committee for the purpose of sponsoring one or more fund-raising events for those candidates. Any individual, other than a candidate benefited, who is eligible and qualifies to serve in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of section 9-606 may serve as the treasurer or deputy treasurer of such a political committee. The statements required to be filed by a political committee under this chapter shall apply to any political committee established pursuant to this subsection. After all expenses of the political committee have been paid by its treasurer for each event, he shall distribute all remaining funds from such event to the treasurers of each of the candidate committees which established the political committee. The distribution to each candidate committee shall be made not later than fourteen days after the event, either in accordance with a prior agreement of the candidates or, if no prior agreement was made, in equal proportions to each candidate committee. Any contribution which is made to such political committee shall, for purposes of determining compliance with the limitations imposed by this chapter, be deemed to have been made in equal proportions to each candidate's campaign unless (1) a prior agreement was made by the candidates as to the disposition of remaining funds, and (2) those who contributed to the political committee were notified of such disposition, in which case the contribution shall be deemed to have been made to each candidate's campaign in accordance with the agreement.

(b) (1) A candidate committee may pay or reimburse another candidate committee for its pro rata share of the expenses of operating a campaign headquarters and of preparing, printing and disseminating any political communication on behalf of that candidate and any other candidate or candidates, including any shared expenses for which only the committee being paid or reimbursed was under a contractual obligation to pay. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 9-616, a candidate committee may reimburse a party committee for any expenditure such party committee has incurred for the benefit of such candidate committee.

(2) A legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee may pay or reimburse another legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee for its pro rata share of the expenses of accomplishing the lawful purposes of the paying or reimbursing committee, as described in subparagraph (A)(ii) of subdivision (1) of subsection (g) of section 9-607, including any shared expenses for which only the committee being paid or reimbursed was under a contractual obligation to pay.

(c) A candidate may make any expenditure permitted by section 9-607 to aid or promote the success of his campaign for nomination or election from his personal funds, or the funds of his immediate family, which for the purposes of this chapter shall consist of the candidate's spouse and issue. Any such expenditure shall not be deemed a contribution to any committee.

(d) (1) No incumbent holding office shall, during the three months preceding an election in which he is a candidate for reelection or election to another office, use public funds to mail or print flyers or other promotional materials intended to bring about his election or reelection.

(2) No official or employee of the state or a political subdivision of the state shall authorize the use of public funds for a television, radio, movie theater, billboard, bus poster, newspaper or magazine promotional campaign or advertisement, which (A) features the name, face or voice of a candidate for public office, or (B) promotes the nomination or election of a candidate for public office, during the twelve-month period preceding the election being held for the office which the candidate described in this subdivision is seeking.

(3) As used in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection, “public funds” does not include any grant or moneys paid to a qualified candidate committee from the Citizens' Election Fund under this chapter.

(4) No candidate's participation in connection with any activity of the Council of State Governments shall constitute a violation of this subsection.

(e) For purposes of this subsection and subsection (f) of this section, the exclusions to the term “contribution” in subsection (b) of section 9-601a shall not apply; the term “state office” means the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer or Secretary of the State; and the term “state officer” means the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer or Secretary of the State. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, during any regular session of the General Assembly, during any special session of the General Assembly held between the adjournment of the regular session in an odd-numbered year and the convening of the regular session in the following even-numbered year or during any reconvened session of the General Assembly held in an odd-numbered year to reconsider vetoed bills, (1) no lobbyist or political committee established by or on behalf of a lobbyist shall make or offer to make a contribution to or on behalf of, and no lobbyist shall solicit a contribution on behalf of, (A) a candidate or exploratory committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the General Assembly or a state office, or (B) a political committee (i) established for an assembly or senatorial district, (ii) established by a member of the General Assembly or a state officer or such member or officer's agent, or in consultation with, or at the request or suggestion of, any such member, officer or agent, or (iii) controlled by such member, officer or agent, to aid or promote the nomination or election of any candidate or candidates to the General Assembly or a state office, and (2) no such candidate or political committee shall accept such a contribution. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a candidate committee established by a member of the General Assembly or a candidate for nomination or election to the General Assembly, at a special election for the General Assembly, from the date on which the candidate or the chairman of the committee files the designation of a treasurer and a depository institution under section 9-602 with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, to the date on which the special election is held, inclusive, or to an exploratory committee established by a member of the General Assembly to promote his candidacy for an office other than the General Assembly.

(f) (1) A political committee established by two or more individuals under subparagraph (B) of subdivision (3) of section 9-601, other than a committee established solely for the purpose of aiding or promoting any candidate or candidates for municipal office or the success or defeat of a referendum question, shall be subject to the prohibition on acceptance of lobbyist contributions under subsection (e) of this section unless the treasurer of the committee has filed a registration statement as described in subsection (b) of section 9-605 with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, on or before November 15, 2012, for all such political committees in existence on such date, or, if the committee is not in existence on such date, not later than ten days after the organization of the committee pursuant to subsection (a) of section 9-605, and on or before November fifteenth of each even-numbered year thereafter. Such statements shall be filed even if there are no changes, additions or deletions to the registration statement previously filed with the commission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, if an officer of the committee has changed since the last registration statement filed with the commission, such registration statement shall be filed by the chairperson of the committee.

(2) A political committee established for ongoing political activities and required pursuant to subsection (a) of section 9-603 to file statements with the commission shall be subject to the prohibition on making contributions under subsection (e) of this section unless the treasurer of the committee has filed a registration statement as described in subsection (b) of section 9-605 with the commission, on forms prescribed by the commission, on or before November 15, 2012, for all such political committees in existence on such date, or, if the committee is not in existence on such date, not later than ten days after the organization of the committee pursuant to subsection (a) of section 9-605, and on or before November fifteenth of each even-numbered year thereafter. Such statements shall be filed even if there are no changes, additions or deletions to the registration statement previously filed with the commission. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, if an officer of the committee has changed since the last registration statement filed with the commission, such registration statement shall be filed by the chairperson of the committee.

(3) The commission shall prepare a list of all such committees subject to the prohibitions under subsection (e) of this section, based upon an evaluation of registrations filed pursuant to this subsection and subsection (b) of section 9-605. Such list shall be available prior to the opening of each regular session of the General Assembly, and shall provide a copy of the list to the president pro tempore of the Senate, the speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the House of Representatives and each state officer. During each such regular session, the commission shall prepare a supplemental list of committees that register after November fifteenth and are subject to such prohibitions, and the commission shall provide the supplemental list to such legislative leaders and state officers. The filing of the registration statement by the treasurer of the committee shall not impair the authority of the commission to act under section 9-7b. Any lobbyist or treasurer who acts in reliance on such lists in good faith shall have an absolute defense in any action brought under subsection (e) and this subsection, subsection (c) of section 9-604, and subsection (f) of section 9-608.

(g) No communicator lobbyist, member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist, or political committee established or controlled by a communicator lobbyist or a member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist shall make a contribution or contributions in excess of one hundred dollars to, or for the benefit of (1) an exploratory committee or a candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Secretary of the State, state senator or state representative, (2) a political committee established or controlled by any such candidate, (3) a legislative caucus committee or a legislative leadership committee, or (4) a party committee.

(h) On and after January 1, 2011, no communicator lobbyist, immediate family member of a communicator lobbyist, agent of a communicator lobbyist, or political committee established or controlled by a communicator lobbyist or any such immediate family member or agent shall knowingly solicit from any individual who is a member of the board of directors of, an employee of or a partner in, or who has an ownership interest of five per cent or more in, any client lobbyist that the communicator lobbyist lobbies on behalf of pursuant to the communicator lobbyist's registration under chapter 10 (1) a contribution on behalf of a candidate committee or an exploratory committee established by a candidate for the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Secretary of the State, state senator or state representative, a political committee established or controlled by any such candidate, a legislative caucus committee, a legislative leadership committee or a party committee, or (2) the purchase of advertising space in a program for a fund-raising affair sponsored by a town committee, as described in subparagraph (B) of subdivision (10) of subsection (b) of section 9-601a.

(i) No communicator lobbyist or agent of such lobbyist, or member of the immediate family of a communicator lobbyist shall bundle contributions to, (1) an exploratory committee or a candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, State Treasurer, Secretary of the State, state senator or state representative, (2) a political committee established or controlled by any such candidate, (3) a legislative caucus committee or a legislative leadership committee, or (4) a party committee.

(j) The provisions of subsections (g), (h) and (i) of this subsection shall not apply to the campaign of a communicator lobbyist, immediate family member of a communicator lobbyist or agent of a communicator lobbyist who is a candidate for public office or to an immediate family member of a communicator lobbyist who is an elected public official.

(k) Any person who violates any provision of subsections (g), (h) and (i) of this section shall be subject to a civil penalty, imposed by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, of not more than five thousand dollars or twice the amount of any contribution donated, solicited or bundled in violation of subsection (g), (h) or (i) of this section, whichever is greater.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 13, 34; P.A. 90-267, S. 1; P.A. 91-351, S. 12, 28; P.A. 93-251, S. 1, 5; P.A. 94-132, S. 10; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 10, 14, 19; P.A. 99-12, S. 2, 3; P.A. 03-223, S. 8; 03-241, S. 63; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 27–29; P.A. 06-137, S. 24, 25; P.A. 08-2, S. 8, 9; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1, S. 9; P.A. 11-139, S. 5; 11-173, S. 55; P.A. 13-180, S. 12, 16, 30; P.A. 16-181, S. 1; P.A. 23-205, S. 174.)

History: P.A. 90-267 added Subsec. (e) re prohibitions on certain contributions and the soliciting of such contributions by lobbyists and political committees established by or on behalf of lobbyists, and Subsec. (f) re the implementation of such prohibitions; P.A. 91-351 amended Subsec. (a) to allow political committee to be established for one or more fund-raising events instead of a single event; P.A. 93-251 amended Subsec. (e) to provide that exclusions to term “contribution” in Sec. 9-333b(b) shall not apply for purposes of Subsecs. (e) and (f), amended Subsec. (f) to require that secretary prescribe political committee certification forms by November 15, 1994, instead of December 1, 1990, that certifications be filed by November fifteenth biennially instead of December first annually, that secretary provide political committee registration reports and copies of registrations and certifications to commission and that commission prepare supplemental list of committees registering after November fifteenth instead of December first, and added Subsec. (g) re lobbyist statements, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 94-132 deleted Subsec. (g)(1) which had required statement to include name and address of persons on whose behalf one was a lobbyist and renumbered Subdivs. (2) and (3) as (1) and (2); June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 amended Subsec. (e) by defining “state office” and “state officer” and applied provisions of Subsecs. (e) and (f) to state officers, effective July 1, 1997, and amended Subsec. (g)(1) by repealing reporting of ticket purchases in connection with fund-raising events, effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998; P.A. 99-12 amended Subsec. (d) by designating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) prohibiting authorization of use of public funds for candidate promotional campaigns or advertisements, effective January 1, 2000; P.A. 03-223 amended Subsec. (a) to require distribution of funds to be made to each candidate committee not later than 14 days after the event, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by inserting “movie theater, billboard, bus poster,” and by making a technical change, effective July 1, 2003; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (d)(2) by changing “five-month” to “twelve-month” and added Subsec. (d)(3) re exclusion from term “public funds”, effective January 1, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date, and amended Subsec. (g) by deleting definition of “immediate family” and changing “Secretary of the State” to “State Elections Enforcement Commission”, and added Subsecs. (h) and (i) prohibiting contributions by communicator lobbyists, their immediate family members and political committees established or controlled by communicator lobbyists or such immediate family members, and prohibiting solicitations by such lobbyists, family members and political committees and agents of such lobbyists and political committees established or controlled by such agents, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-137 amended Subsec. (i) to designate Subdiv. (2) as new Subsec. (j) re exceptions to prohibition, inserting therein “or to an immediate family member of a communicator lobbyist who is an elected public official”, and Subdiv. (3) as new Subsec. (k) re civil penalty for violation of prohibition, inserting therein “donated or”, and made technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date, and further amended section to delete former Subsec. (g) and redesignate Subsecs. (h) to (k), inclusive, as Subsecs. (g) to (j), inclusive, and make technical changes, effective October 1, 2007; Sec. 9-333l transferred to Sec. 9-610 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (h) to designate existing provisions re contribution solicitation as Subdiv. (1) and add Subdiv. (2) re purchase of advertising space in program for a fund-raising affair sponsored by a town committee, effective April 7, 2008, and amended Subsecs. (e) and (f) to change references from “lobbyist” to “client lobbyist” and “Secretary of the State” to “State Elections Enforcement Commission” and, in Subsec. (f), to replace “on behalf of” with “controlled by” and “1994” with “2008” and eliminate requirement for Secretary of the State to provide political committee registration report to State Elections Enforcement Commission, effective October 1, 2008; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1 amended Subsecs. (e) and (f) by replacing references to client lobbyists with references to lobbyists, amended Subsec. (g) by permitting contributions by communicator lobbyists that do not exceed $100, amended Subsec. (h) by eliminating prohibition on solicitation and adding solicitation restrictions effective on and after January 1, 2011, added new Subsec. (i) prohibiting bundling, redesignated existing Subsecs. (i) and (j) as Subsecs. (j) and (k) and added references to bundling and Subsec. (i) therein, and made technical changes in Subsecs. (d) and (h), effective August 13, 2010; P.A. 11-139 made a technical change in Subsec. (e), effective July 8, 2011; P.A. 11-173 amended Subsec. (f) by dividing existing provisions into Subdivs. (1) to (3) and by making technical changes, amended Subsec. (f)(1) and (3) by replacing language re certification with language re registration and amended Subsec. (f)(2) by adding language re filing of statements, effective July 13, 2011; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (b) to add provisions allowing for reimbursement of shared expenses and amended Subsec. (f)(1) and (2) by adding provisions re change of officer and replacing “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer” were changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer”, respectively, in Subsecs. (a), (e) and (f)(3), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 16-181 amended Subsec. (d) to add Subdiv. (4) re participation in Council of State Governments activity not constituting violation of subsection, effective June 6, 2016; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re payment or reimbursement for pro rata share of expenses, effective June 29, 2023.

See Sec. 2-15a re annual mailing by General Assembly members.

Sec. 9-611. (Formerly Sec. 9-333m). Limits on contributions made by individuals to candidate committees, exploratory committees. When contributions by personal check or credit card required. Contributions by individuals less than eighteen years of age. (a) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of (1) Governor, in excess of three thousand five hundred dollars; (2) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of two thousand dollars; (3) chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of one thousand dollars; (4) state senator or probate judge, in excess of one thousand dollars; or (5) state representative or any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of two hundred fifty dollars. The limits imposed by this subsection shall be applied separately to primaries and elections.

(b) (1) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, an exploratory committee, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars, if the candidate establishing the exploratory committee certifies on the statement of organization for the exploratory committee pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-604 that the candidate will not be a candidate for the office of state representative. No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any exploratory committee, in excess of two hundred fifty dollars, if the candidate establishing the exploratory committee does not so certify.

(2) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, a political committee formed by a slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace, in excess of two hundred fifty dollars.

(c) No individual shall make contributions to such candidates or committees which in the aggregate exceed thirty thousand dollars for any single election and primary preliminary to such election.

(d) No individual shall make a contribution to any candidate or committee, other than a contribution in kind, in excess of one hundred dollars except by personal check or credit card of that individual.

(e) No individual who is less than eighteen years of age shall make a contribution or contributions, in excess of thirty dollars to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of: (1) A candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary to any office; (2) a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for election to any office; (3) an exploratory committee; (4) any other political committee in any calendar year; or (5) a party committee in any calendar year. Notwithstanding any provision of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b, any individual who is less than eighteen years of age who violates any provision of this subsection shall not be subject to the provisions of subdivision (2) of section 9-7b.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 14, 34; 86-240, S. 6, 12; P.A. 91-351, S. 13, 28; P.A. 92-246, S. 1, 5; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 13, 19; P.A. 00-99, S. 34, 154; P.A. 02-130, S. 10; P.A. 03-241, S. 13; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 30; P.A. 07-1, S. 2; P.A. 13-180, S. 19.)

History: P.A. 86-240 limited contributions by individuals to candidates for nomination or election to any municipal office other than chief executive officer to $250; P.A. 91-351 inserted new Subsec. (b) re additional allowable contributions to candidate committee which is solely financing convention delegate slate and relettered former Subsecs. (b) and (c) as (c) and (d); P.A. 92-246 added Subsec. (e) requiring certain contributions by individuals to be by personal check; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 added Subsec. (f) re restrictions on contributions by individuals less than 16 years of age, effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriff in Subsec. (a), effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (e) to allow a contribution in excess of $100 to be made by credit card, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-241 deleted former Subsec. (b) re convention delegate primaries, redesignated existing Subsecs. (c) to (f) as Subsecs. (b) to (c), and amended redesignated Subsec. (b) by substituting “office of justice of the peace” for “position of delegate to the same convention”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing contribution limit for office of Governor from $2,500 to $3,500, for other state offices from $1,500 to $2,000, and for office of state senator or probate judge from $500 to $1,000, and amended Subsec. (b) by dividing existing provisions into Subdivs. (1) and (2), amending Subdiv. (1) to increase limit on contributions to exploratory committee from $250 to $375 for candidate certifying that candidate will not be candidate for office of state representative, and making a conforming change in Subdiv. (2), effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333m transferred to Sec. 9-611 in 2007; P.A. 07-1 amended Subsec. (e) to change “sixteen” to “eighteen” years of age, effective February 8, 2007; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (c) by changing maximum aggregate contribution from $15,000 to $30,000 and making a technical change, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-612. (Formerly Sec. 9-333n). Other contributions by individuals. Principals of investment services firms, state contractors, principals of state contractors, prospective state contractors or principals of prospective state contractors. Lists. Subcontracts study. State officials or employees. Legislative caucus staff members. (a) No individual shall make a contribution or contributions in any one calendar year in excess of fifteen thousand dollars to the state central committee of any party, or for the benefit of such committee pursuant to its authorization or request; or two thousand dollars to a town committee of any political party, or for the benefit of such committee pursuant to its authorization or request; or two thousand dollars to a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, or one thousand dollars to any other political committee other than (1) a political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, (2) an exploratory committee, (3) a political committee established by an organization, or for the benefit of such committee pursuant to its authorization or request, or (4) a political committee formed by a slate of candidates in a primary for the office of justice of the peace of the same town.

(b) No individual shall make a contribution to a political committee established by an organization which receives its funds from the organization's treasury. With respect to a political committee established by an organization which has complied with the provisions of subsection (b) or (c) of section 9-614, and has elected to receive contributions, no individual other than a member of the organization may make contributions to the committee, in which case the individual may contribute not more than seven hundred fifty dollars in any one calendar year to such committee or for the benefit of such committee pursuant to its authorization or request.

(c) In no event may any individual make contributions to a candidate committee and a political committee formed solely to support one candidate other than an exploratory committee or for the benefit of a candidate committee and a political committee formed solely to support one candidate pursuant to the authorization or request of any such committee, in an amount which in the aggregate is in excess of the maximum amount which may be contributed to the candidate.

(d) Any individual may make unlimited contributions or expenditures to aid or promote the success or defeat of any referendum question, provided any individual who makes an expenditure or expenditures in excess of one thousand dollars to promote the success or defeat of any referendum question shall file statements according to the same schedule and in the same manner as is required of a treasurer of a political committee under section 9-608.

(e) (1) As used in this subsection and subsection (f) of section 9-608, (A) “investment services” means investment legal services, investment banking services, investment advisory services, underwriting services, financial advisory services or brokerage firm services, and (B) “principal of an investment services firm” means (i) an individual who is a director of or has an ownership interest in an investment services firm to which the State Treasurer pays compensation, expenses or fees or issues a contract, except for an individual who owns less than five per cent of the shares of an investment services firm, (ii) an individual who is employed by such an investment services firm as president, treasurer, or executive vice president, (iii) an employee of such an investment services firm who has managerial or discretionary responsibilities with respect to any investment services provided to the State Treasurer, (iv) the spouse or a dependent child who is eighteen years of age or older of an individual described in this subparagraph, or (v) a political committee established or controlled by an individual described in this subparagraph.

(2) No principal of an investment services firm shall make a contribution to, or solicit contributions on behalf of, an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of State Treasurer during the term of office of the State Treasurer who pays compensation, expenses or fees or issues a contract to such firm. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply only to contributions and the solicitation of contributions that are not prohibited under subdivision (2) of subsection (f) of this section.

(3) Neither the State Treasurer, the Deputy State Treasurer, any unclassified employee of the office of the State Treasurer acting on behalf of the State Treasurer or Deputy State Treasurer, any candidate for the office of State Treasurer, any member of the Investment Advisory Council established under section 3-13b nor any agent of any such candidate may knowingly, wilfully or intentionally solicit contributions on behalf of an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to any public office, a political committee or a party committee, from a principal of an investment services firm. The provisions of this subdivision shall apply only to contributions and the solicitation of contributions that are not prohibited under subdivision (3) of subsection (f) of this section.

(4) No member of the Investment Advisory Council appointed under section 3-13b shall make a contribution to, or solicit contributions on behalf of, an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of State Treasurer.

(5) The provisions of this subsection shall not restrict an individual from establishing an exploratory or candidate committee or from soliciting for and making contributions to a town committee or political committee that the candidate has designated in accordance with subsection (b) of section 9-604, for the financing of the individual's own campaign or from soliciting contributions for such committees from persons not prohibited from making contributions under this subsection.

(f) (1) As used in this subsection and subsections (g) and (h) of this section:

(A) “Quasi-public agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 1-120.

(B) “State agency” means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution or other agency in the executive or legislative branch of state government.

(C) “State contract” means an agreement or contract with the state or any state agency or any quasi-public agency, let through a procurement process or otherwise, having a value of fifty thousand dollars or more, or a combination or series of such agreements or contracts having a value of one hundred thousand dollars or more in a calendar year, for (i) the rendition of services, (ii) the furnishing of any goods, material, supplies, equipment or any items of any kind, (iii) the construction, alteration or repair of any public building or public work, (iv) the acquisition, sale or lease of any land or building, (v) a licensing arrangement, or (vi) a grant, loan or loan guarantee. “State contract” does not include any agreement or contract with the state, any state agency or any quasi-public agency that is exclusively federally funded, an education loan, a loan to an individual for other than commercial purposes or any agreement or contract between the state or any state agency and the United States Department of the Navy or the United States Department of Defense.

(D) “State contractor” means a person, business entity or nonprofit organization that enters into a state contract. Such person, business entity or nonprofit organization shall be deemed to be a state contractor until December thirty-first of the year in which such contract terminates. “State contractor” does not include a municipality or any other political subdivision of the state, including any entities or associations duly created by the municipality or political subdivision exclusively amongst themselves to further any purpose authorized by statute or charter, or an employee in the executive or legislative branch of state government or a quasi-public agency, whether in the classified or unclassified service and full or part-time, and only in such person's capacity as a state or quasi-public agency employee.

(E) “Prospective state contractor” means a person, business entity or nonprofit organization that (i) submits a response to a state contract solicitation by the state, a state agency or a quasi-public agency, or a proposal in response to a request for proposals by the state, a state agency or a quasi-public agency, until the contract has been entered into, or (ii) holds a valid prequalification certificate issued by the Commissioner of Administrative Services under section 4a-100. “Prospective state contractor” does not include a municipality or any other political subdivision of the state, including any entities or associations duly created by the municipality or political subdivision exclusively amongst themselves to further any purpose authorized by statute or charter, or an employee in the executive or legislative branch of state government or a quasi-public agency, whether in the classified or unclassified service and full or part-time, and only in such person's capacity as a state or quasi-public agency employee.

(F) “Principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor” means (i) any individual who is a member of the board of directors of, or has an ownership interest of five per cent or more in, a state contractor or prospective state contractor, which is a business entity, except for an individual who is a member of the board of directors of a nonprofit organization, (ii) an individual who is employed by a state contractor or prospective state contractor, which is a business entity, as president, treasurer or executive vice president, (iii) an individual who is the chief executive officer of a state contractor or prospective state contractor, which is not a business entity, or if a state contractor or prospective state contractor has no such officer, then the officer who duly possesses comparable powers and duties, (iv) an officer or an employee of any state contractor or prospective state contractor who has managerial or discretionary responsibilities with respect to a state contract, (v) the spouse or a dependent child who is eighteen years of age or older of an individual described in this subparagraph, or (vi) a political committee established or controlled by an individual described in this subparagraph or the business entity or nonprofit organization that is the state contractor or prospective state contractor.

(G) “Dependent child” means a child residing in an individual's household who may legally be claimed as a dependent on the federal income tax return of such individual.

(H) “Managerial or discretionary responsibilities with respect to a state contract” means having direct, extensive and substantive responsibilities with respect to the negotiation of the state contract and not peripheral, clerical or ministerial responsibilities.

(I) “Rendition of services” means the provision of any service to a state agency or quasi-public agency in exchange for a fee, remuneration or compensation of any kind from the state or through an arrangement with the state.

(J) “State contract solicitation” means a request by a state agency or quasi-public agency, in whatever form issued, including, but not limited to, an invitation to bid, request for proposals, request for information or request for quotes, inviting bids, quotes or other types of submittals, through a competitive procurement process or another process authorized by law waiving competitive procurement.

(K) “Subcontractor” means any person, business entity or nonprofit organization that contracts to perform part or all of the obligations of a state contractor's state contract. Such person, business entity or nonprofit organization shall be deemed to be a subcontractor until December thirty-first of the year in which the subcontract terminates. “Subcontractor” does not include (i) a municipality or any other political subdivision of the state, including any entities or associations duly created by the municipality or political subdivision exclusively amongst themselves to further any purpose authorized by statute or charter, or (ii) an employee in the executive or legislative branch of state government or a quasi-public agency, whether in the classified or unclassified service and full or part-time, and only in such person's capacity as a state or quasi-public agency employee.

(L) “Principal of a subcontractor” means (i) any individual who is a member of the board of directors of, or has an ownership interest of five per cent or more in, a subcontractor, which is a business entity, except for an individual who is a member of the board of directors of a nonprofit organization, (ii) an individual who is employed by a subcontractor, which is a business entity, as president, treasurer or executive vice president, (iii) an individual who is the chief executive officer of a subcontractor, which is not a business entity, or if a subcontractor has no such officer, then the officer who duly possesses comparable powers and duties, (iv) an officer or an employee of any subcontractor who has managerial or discretionary responsibilities with respect to a subcontract with a state contractor, (v) the spouse or a dependent child who is eighteen years of age or older of an individual described in this subparagraph, or (vi) a political committee established or controlled by an individual described in this subparagraph or the business entity or nonprofit organization that is the subcontractor.

(2) (A) No state contractor, prospective state contractor, principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor, with regard to a state contract or a state contract solicitation with or from a state agency in the executive branch or a quasi-public agency or a holder, or principal of a holder, of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to, or, on and after January 1, 2011, knowingly solicit contributions from the state contractor's or prospective state contractor's employees or from a subcontractor or principals of the subcontractor on behalf of (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee;

(B) No state contractor, prospective state contractor, principal of a state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor, with regard to a state contract or a state contract solicitation with or from the General Assembly or a holder, or principal of a holder, of a valid prequalification certificate, shall make a contribution to, or, on and after January 1, 2011, knowingly solicit contributions from the state contractor's or prospective state contractor's employees or from a subcontractor or principals of the subcontractor on behalf of (i) an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of state senator or state representative, (ii) a political committee authorized to make contributions or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates, or (iii) a party committee;

(C) If a state contractor or principal of a state contractor makes or solicits a contribution as prohibited under subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, as determined by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the contracting state agency or quasi-public agency may, in the case of a state contract executed on or after February 8, 2007, void the existing contract with such contractor, and no state agency or quasi-public agency shall award the state contractor a state contract or an extension or an amendment to a state contract for one year after the election for which such contribution is made or solicited unless the commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation. No violation of the prohibitions contained in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision shall be deemed to have occurred if, and only if, the improper contribution is returned to the principal by the later of thirty days after receipt of such contribution by the recipient committee treasurer or the filing date that corresponds with the reporting period in which such contribution was made;

(D) If a prospective state contractor or principal of a prospective state contractor makes or solicits a contribution as prohibited under subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, as determined by the State Elections Enforcement Commission, no state agency or quasi-public agency shall award the prospective state contractor the contract described in the state contract solicitation or any other state contract for one year after the election for which such contribution is made or solicited unless the commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation. The Commissioner of Administrative Services shall notify applicants of the provisions of this subparagraph and subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this subdivision during the prequalification application process;

(E) The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall make available to each state agency and quasi-public agency a written notice advising state contractors and prospective state contractors of the contribution and solicitation prohibitions contained in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of this subdivision. Such notice shall: (i) Direct each state contractor and prospective state contractor to inform each individual described in subparagraph (F) of subdivision (1) of this subsection, with regard to such state contractor or prospective state contractor, about the provisions of subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, whichever is applicable, and this subparagraph; (ii) inform each state contractor and prospective state contractor of the civil and criminal penalties that could be imposed for violations of such prohibitions if any such contribution is made or solicited; (iii) inform each state contractor and prospective state contractor that, in the case of a state contractor, if any such contribution is made or solicited, the contract may be voided; (iv) inform each state contractor and prospective state contractor that, in the case of a prospective state contractor, if any such contribution is made or solicited, the contract described in the state contract solicitation shall not be awarded, unless the commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation; and (v) inform each state contractor and prospective state contractor that the state will not award any other state contract to anyone found in violation of such prohibitions for a period of one year after the election for which such contribution is made or solicited, unless the commission determines that mitigating circumstances exist concerning such violation. Each state agency and quasi-public agency shall include in the bid specifications or request for proposals for a state contract, a copy of or Internet link to such notice. No state agency or quasi-public agency shall execute a state contract unless such contract contains a representation that the chief executive officer or authorized signatory of the contract has received such notice; and

(F) (i) Any principal of the state contractor or prospective state contractor submitting a bid or proposal for a state contract shall certify that neither the contractor or prospective state contractor, nor any of its principals, have made any contributions to, or solicited any contributions on behalf of, any party committee, exploratory committee, candidate for state-wide office or for the General Assembly, or political committee authorized to make contributions to or expenditures to or for, the benefit of such candidates, in the previous four years, that were determined by the State Elections Enforcement Commission to be in violation of subparagraph (A) or (B) of this subdivision, without mitigating circumstances having been found to exist concerning such violation. Each such certification shall be sworn as true to the best knowledge and belief of the person signing the certification, subject to the penalties of false statement. If there is any change in the information contained in the most recently filed certification, such person shall submit an updated certification not later than thirty days after the effective date of any such change or upon the submittal of any new bid or proposal for a state contract, whichever is earlier.

(ii) Each state agency and quasi-public agency shall include in the bid specifications or request for proposals for a state contract a notice of the certification requirements of this subparagraph. No state agency or quasi-public agency shall execute a state contract unless the state agency or quasi-public agency obtains the written certification described in this subparagraph.

(iii) Any principal of the state contractor or prospective state contractor submitting a bid or proposal for a state contract shall disclose on the certification all contributions made by any of its principals to any party committee, exploratory committee, candidate for state-wide office or for the General Assembly, or political committee authorized to make contributions to or expenditures to or for the benefit of such candidates for a period of four years prior to the signing of the contract or date of the response to the bid, whichever is longer, and certify that all such contributions have been disclosed.

(3) (A) On and after December 31, 2006, neither the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer, any candidate for any such office nor any agent of any such official or candidate shall knowingly, wilfully or intentionally solicit contributions on behalf of an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to any public office, a political committee or a party committee, from a person who he or she knows is prohibited from making contributions, including a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor with regard to a state contract solicitation with or from a state agency in the executive branch or a quasi-public agency or a holder of a valid prequalification certificate.

(B) On and after December 31, 2006, neither a member of the General Assembly, any candidate for any such office nor any agent of any such official or candidate shall knowingly, wilfully or intentionally solicit contributions on behalf of an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to any public office, a political committee or a party committee, from a person who he or she knows is prohibited from making contributions, including a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor with regard to a state contract solicitation with or from the General Assembly or a holder of a valid prequalification certificate.

(4) The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to the campaign of a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor or to a principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor who is an elected public official.

(5) Each state contractor and prospective state contractor shall make reasonable efforts to comply with the provisions of this subsection. If the State Elections Enforcement Commission determines that a state contractor or prospective state contractor has failed to make reasonable efforts to comply with this subsection, the commission may impose civil penalties against such state contractor or prospective state contractor in accordance with subsection (a) of section 9-7b.

(g) (1) Not later than thirty days after February 8, 2007, each state agency and quasi-public agency shall prepare and forward to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, on a form prescribed by said commission, a list of the names of the state contractors and prospective state contractors with which such agency is a party to a contract, and any state contract solicitations or prequalification certificates issued by the agency. Not less than once per month, each state agency and quasi-public agency shall forward to said commission, on a form prescribed by the commission, any changes, additions or deletions to said lists, not later than the fifteenth day of the month.

(2) Not later than sixty days after February 8, 2007, the State Elections Enforcement Commission shall (A) compile a master list of state contractors and prospective state contractors for all state agencies and quasi-public agencies, based on the information received under subdivision (1) of this subsection, (B) publish the master list on the commission's Internet web site, and (C) provide copies of the master list to treasurers upon request. The commission shall update the master list every month.

(h) The State Contracting Standards Board shall study subcontracts for state contracts and, not later than February 1, 2010, submit proposed legislation for extending the provisions of this subsection to such subcontracts to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to elections.

(i) (1) As used in this subsection:

(A) “Quasi-public agency” has the same meaning as provided in section 1-120.

(B) “Unclassified service” has the same meaning as provided in section 5-196.

(2) On and after December 31, 2006:

(A) No executive head of a state agency in the executive branch, executive head of a quasi-public agency, deputy of any such executive head, other full-time official or employee of any such state agency or quasi-public agency who is appointed by the Governor, other full-time official or employee of any such state agency or quasi-public agency who is in the unclassified service, or member of the immediate family of any such person, shall make a contribution or contributions (i) to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor, in excess of one hundred dollars for each such campaign, or (ii) to a political committee established by any such candidate, in excess of one hundred dollars in any calendar year;

(B) No official or employee of the office of the Attorney General, State Comptroller, Secretary of the State or State Treasurer who is in the unclassified service, or member of the immediate family of any such person, shall make a contribution or contributions (i) to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office in which such official or employee serves, in excess of one hundred dollars for each such campaign, or (ii) to a political committee established by any such candidate, in excess of one hundred dollars in any calendar year; and

(C) No member of a caucus staff for a major party in the Senate or House of Representatives, or member of the immediate family of such person, shall make a contribution or contributions (i) to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election to the office of state senator or state representative, in excess of one hundred dollars for each such campaign, (ii) to a political committee established by any such candidate, in excess of one hundred dollars in any calendar year, or (iii) to a legislative caucus committee or a legislative leadership committee, in excess of one hundred dollars in any calendar year.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 15, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 14, 19, 28; P.A. 95-188, S. 2; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5, S. 12, 19; P.A. 00-43, S. 18, 19; P.A. 02-130, S. 11; P.A. 03-241, S. 14; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 31, 32; P.A. 06-137, S. 26, 28; P.A. 07-1, S. 1; 07-202, S. 9; P.A. 08-2, S. 10–12; P.A. 09-234, S. 13; P.A. 10-187, S. 6; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1, S. 10; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 51; P.A. 13-180, S. 7; P.A. 14-182, S. 11; P.A. 21-76, S. 5; P.A. 23-205, S. 190.)

History: P.A. 91-351 added Subsec. (a)(4) to provide that $1,000 limit does not apply to contributions to political committee formed by delegate slates and inserted “or position” in Subsec. (e); P.A. 95-188 added Subsec. (f) re contributions for candidates for Treasurer by “investment services” firms or individuals associated with such firms; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-5 amended Subsec. (d) by requiring individuals who make expenditures in excess of $1,000 re referendum to file statements inserting “acting alone”, substituting “candidate, agent of the candidate, or committee” for “other person”, substituting “to promote the success or defeat of” for “for the benefit of” and requiring individuals who make independent campaign-related expenditures in excess of $1,000 to file statements, effective July 1, 1997, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after January 1, 1998; P.A. 00-43 amended Subsec. (f) by designating existing provisions as Subdivs. (1) and (2) and adding Subdivs. (3) to (5), inclusive, re campaign contributions by members of the Investment Advisory Council and persons or firms doing business with the Treasurer, effective May 3, 2000; P.A. 02-130 substantially revised Subsec. (f) re restrictions applicable to principals of investment services firms, the State Treasurer, certain other public officials and employees, and candidates for the office of State Treasurer and agents of such candidates, and made technical and conforming changes in said Subsec., effective May 10, 2002; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (a) by making a technical change and substituting “office of justice of the peace of the same town” for “position of delegate to the same convention”, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by establishing a $1,000 limit on contributions to a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee and reducing limit on contributions to other political committees from $1,000 to $750, amended Subsec. (b) to increase limit on contributions to political committee established by organization from $500 to $750, amended Subsec. (e) by designating existing provisions as Subdiv. (1), making a conforming change therein, and adding Subdivs. (2) to (5) re reporting of independent expenditures to promote success or defeat of candidate for state or General Assembly office, complaints re such reporting and enforcement of requirement for such reporting, and amended Subsec. (f) by providing that Subdivs. (2) and (3) apply only to contributions and solicitations not prohibited under Subsec. (g)(2) and (3) and deleting provision that prohibition in Subdiv. (3) shall not apply to State Treasurer establishing exploratory or candidate committee for any other public office, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date, and added Subsecs. (g) re prohibitions on principal of state contractor or prospective state contractor making or soliciting contributions and on state elected official, candidate or agent or General Assembly member, candidate or agent soliciting contributions from any such principal, (h) re requirements for compiling and distributing master list of principals of state contractors and prospective state contractors, (i) re State Elections Enforcement Commission study of subcontracts for state contracts and (j) re $100 limit on contributions by specified state and General Assembly officials and employees and their immediate family members, effective December 7, 2005; P.A. 06-137 amended Subsec. (h)(1) to authorize state agencies to designate the commission to obtain information needed to prepare the required lists, and amended Subsec. (i) to change the date for submission of the State Elections Enforcement Commission's proposed legislation from not later than February 1, 2007, to not later than February 1, 2009, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333n transferred to Sec. 9-612 in 2007; P.A. 07-1 amended Subsec. (f)(1) to redefine “principal of an investment services firm”, amended Subsec. (f)(3) to require the knowing, wilful or intentional solicitation of contributions, amended Subsec. (f)(5) to include exception for soliciting or making contributions to a town or political committee, amended Subsec. (g)(1)(B) to remove reference to judicial branch, amended Subsec. (g)(1)(C) to redefine “state contract”, amended Subsec. (g)(1)(D) to redefine “state contractor”, amended Subsec. (g)(1)(E) to redefine “prospective state contractor”, amended Subsec. (g)(1)(F) to redefine “principal of a state contractor or prospective state contractor”, added Subsec. (g)(1)(G) to (J) defining “dependent child”, “managerial or discretionary responsibilities with respect to a state contract”, “rendition of services” and “state contract solicitation”, amended Subsec. (g)(2) and (3) to make technical and conforming changes, added Subsec. (g)(5) re reasonable efforts to comply with provisions of subsection, and amended Subsec. (h) to change “July 1, 2006” to “thirty days after February 8, 2007” and make technical and conforming changes, effective February 8, 2007; P.A. 07-202 amended Subsec. (g)(2)(D) to require Commissioner of Administrative Services to notify applicants of requirements of subdivision during prequalification application process, effective July 10, 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (g)(2)(A) and (B) to add references to state contract solicitation, amended Subsec. (g)(4) to replace former provisions with exception for campaign of principal of state contractor or prospective state contractor who is elected public official and amended Subsec. (i) to require State Contracting Standards Board to conduct study by February 1, 2010, instead of State Elections Enforcement Commission conducting study by February 1, 2009, effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 09-234 redefined “state contract” in Subsec. (g)(1)(C) to exclude agreements or contracts between the state or any state agency and the United States Department of the Navy or the United States Department of Defense, effective July 9, 2009; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (e) by eliminating references to “person”, adding references to “individual, entity or committee”, changing reporting period from 20 days to 90 days prior to primary or election and making conforming and technical changes and, in Subdiv. (1), by permitting individuals, entities or committees to make unlimited independent expenditures and providing that $1,000 trigger be an aggregate amount and, in Subdiv. (2), by requiring electronic filing of reports and, in Subdiv. (3), by replacing former Subpara. (B) re coordinated expenditure with new Subpara. (B) re independent expenditure and adding Subpara. (C) re compliance, effective June 8, 2010; July Sp. Sess. P.A. 10-1 amended Subsec. (g) by adding Subparas. (K) and (L) defining “subcontractor” and “principal of a subcontractor” in Subdiv. (1) and by eliminating prohibition on solicitation, adding solicitation restrictions effective on and after January 1, 2011, and making technical changes in Subdiv. (2), effective August 13, 2010; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 made technical changes in Subsec. (g)(2); P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) by changing $5,000 to $10,000 re maximum contributions to state central committee, changing $1,000 to $2,000 re maximum contributions to town committee, changing $1,000 to $2,000 re maximum contributions to legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, and changing $750 to $1,000 re maximum contributions to any political committee other than those described in Subdivs. (1) to (4), deleted former Subsec. (e) re independent expenditures, redesignated existing Subsecs. (f) to (j) as Subsecs. (e) to (i), replaced “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer” in Subsec. (d) and in redesignated Subsec. (g)(2) and made conforming changes, effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 14-182 made a technical change in Subsec. (g)(1), effective June 12, 2014; P.A. 21-76 amended Subsec. (f)(2) by replacing provisions re distributing notice to contractors and prospective state contractors with requirement to include notice in bid specifications or request for proposals and adding prohibition on entering into contract without representation by chief executive officer in Subpara. (E) and adding Subpara. (F) re sworn certification by principal of state contractor or prospective state contractor re no contributions or solicitation for contributions, notice of certification requirements and disclosure of contributions, effective July 1, 2021; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing from $10,000 to $15,000 the annual limit for individual contributions to state central committees, effective June 29, 2023.

Sec. 9-613. (Formerly Sec. 9-333o). Business entities. (a) Contributions or expenditures for candidate or party prohibited. No business entity shall make any contributions or expenditures to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for election to any public office or position subject to this chapter or for nomination at a primary for any such office or position, or to promote the defeat of any candidate for any such office or position. No business entity shall make any other contributions or expenditures to promote the success or defeat of any political party, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section. No business entity shall establish more than one political committee. A political committee shall be deemed to have been established by a business entity if the initial disbursement or contribution to the committee is made under subsection (b) of this section or by an officer, director, owner, limited or general partner or holder of stock constituting five per cent or more of the total outstanding stock of any class of the business entity.

(b) Transfers or disbursements to political committee. A business entity may make reasonable and necessary transfers or disbursements to or for the benefit of a political committee established by such business entity, for the administration of, or solicitation of contributions to, such political committee. Nonmonetary contributions by a business entity which are incidental in nature and are directly attributable to the administration of such political committee shall be exempt from the reporting requirements of this chapter.

(c) Contributions or expenditures for referendum. The provisions of this section shall not preclude a business entity from making contributions or expenditures to promote the success or defeat of a referendum question.

(d) Contribution limits for particular offices. A political committee organized by a business entity shall not make a contribution or contributions to or for the benefit of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or any candidate's campaign for election to the office of: (1) Governor, in excess of five thousand dollars; (2) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of three thousand dollars; (3) state senator, probate judge or chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (4) state representative, in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars; or (5) any other office of a municipality not included in subdivision (3) of this subsection, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars. The limits imposed by this subsection shall apply separately to primaries and elections and contributions by any such committee to candidates designated in this subsection shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate for any single election and primary preliminary thereto. Contributions to such committees shall also be subject to the provisions of section 9-618 in the case of committees formed for ongoing political activity or section 9-619 in the case of committees formed for a single election or primary.

(e) Contributions to political committees and party committees. No political committee organized by a business entity shall make a contribution or contributions to (1) a state central committee of a political party, in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars in any calendar year, (2) a town committee of any political party, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars in any calendar year, (3) an exploratory committee in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars, or (4) any other kind of political committee, in excess of two thousand dollars in any calendar year.

(f) Contributions for candidate for State Treasurer. As used in this subsection, “investment services” means investment legal services, investment banking services, investment advisory services, underwriting services, financial advisory services or brokerage firm services. No political committee established by a firm which provides investment services and to which the State Treasurer pays compensation, expenses or fees or issues a contract shall make a contribution to, or solicit contributions on behalf of, an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of State Treasurer during the term of office of the State Treasurer who does business with such firm.

(g) Independent expenditures. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a corporation, cooperative association, limited partnership, professional association, limited liability company or limited liability partnership, whether formed in this state or any other, acting alone, may make independent expenditures.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 16, 34; 86-240, S. 7, 12; P.A. 91-351, S. 15, 28; P.A. 95-188, S. 3; P.A. 00-99, S. 35, 154; P.A. 02-130, S. 12; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 33; P.A. 10-187, S. 7.)

History: P.A. 86-240 amended Subsec. (d) to limit contributions by political committee organized by a business entity to candidate for nomination or election to at-large municipal office other than chief executive officer to $250; P.A. 91-351 inserted references to “position” in Subsec. (a); P.A. 95-188 added Subsec. (f) re contributions for candidates for Treasurer by “investment services” firms or individuals associated with such firms; P.A. 00-99 deleted Subsec. (d)(3) re sheriffs and renumbered Subdivs. (4) to (6) as Subdivs. (3) to (5), effective December 1, 2000; P.A. 02-130 amended Subsec. (f) by replacing “legal services” with “investment legal services” and making technical changes, effective May 10, 2002; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by making technical changes, prohibiting business entity from establishing more than one political committee and adding provision re when political committee deemed established by business entity, amended Subsec. (d) by increasing contribution limit for office of state senator, probate judge or municipal chief executive officer from $1,000 to $1,500, for office of state representative from $500 to $750, and for any other office of a municipality from $250 to $375 and by deleting exploratory committee contribution limit, and amended Subsec. (e) by deleting provision allowing political committee established by business entity to make unlimited contributions to another such political committee, establishing $7,500 limit on contributions to state central committee and $1,500 limit on contributions to town committee and increasing limit on contributions to exploratory committee from $250 to $375, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333o transferred to Sec. 9-613 in 2007; P.A. 10-187 added Subsec. (g) re independent expenditures, effective June 8, 2010.

Sec. 9-614. (Formerly Sec. 9-333p). Organizations. (a) Formation of political committee. Method of funding. An organization may make contributions or expenditures, other than those made to promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, only by first forming its own political committee. The political committee shall then be authorized to receive funds exclusively from the organization's treasury or from voluntary contributions made by its members, but not both, from another political committee or, from a candidate committee distributing a surplus and (1) to make contributions or expenditures to, or for the benefit of, a candidate's campaign or a political party, or (2) to make contributions to another political committee. No organization shall form more than one political committee. A political committee shall be deemed to have been established by an organization if the initial contribution to the committee is made by the organization's treasury or an officer or director of the organization.

(b) Change in method of funding. A political committee established by an organization may elect to alter the manner in which it is funded if it complies with the requirements of this subsection. The committee chairperson shall notify the repository with which the committee's most recent statement of organization is filed, in writing, of the committee's intent to alter its manner of funding. Within fifteen days after the date of receipt of such notification, the treasurer of such political committee shall return any funds remaining in the account of the committee to the organization's treasury after payment of each outstanding liability. Within seven days after the distribution and payments have been made, the treasurer shall file a statement with the same repository itemizing each such distribution and payment. Upon such filing, the treasurer may receive voluntary contributions from any member of the organization which established such committee subject to the limitations imposed in subsection (b) of section 9-612.

(c) Designation of funding method. The chairperson of each political committee established by an organization on or after July 1, 1985, shall designate the manner in which the committee shall be funded in the committee's statement of organization.

(d) Independent expenditures. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, an organization, acting alone, may make independent expenditures.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 17, 34; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 34; P.A. 10-187, S. 8; P.A. 13-180, S. 12.)

History: Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 added provision in Subsec. (a) re when political committee deemed established by an organization, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333p transferred to Sec. 9-614 in 2007; P.A. 10-187 added Subsec. (d) re independent expenditures, effective June 8, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” in Subsec. (b), effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-615. (Formerly Sec. 9-333q). Limits on contributions made by political committees established by organizations. (a) No political committee established by an organization shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or for election to the office of: (1) Governor, in excess of five thousand dollars; (2) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of three thousand dollars; (3) chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (4) state senator or probate judge, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (5) state representative, in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars; or (6) any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars.

(b) No such committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, an exploratory committee, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars. Any such committee may make unlimited contributions to a political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question.

(c) The limits imposed by subsection (a) of this section shall apply separately to primaries and elections and no such committee shall make contributions to the candidates designated in this section which in the aggregate exceed fifty thousand dollars for any single election and primary preliminary thereto.

(d) No political committee established by an organization shall make contributions in any one calendar year to, or for the benefit of, (1) the state central committee of a political party, in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars; (2) a town committee, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; or (3) any political committee, other than an exploratory committee or a committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, in excess of two thousand dollars.

(e) Contributions to a political committee established by an organization shall be subject to the provisions of section 9-618 in the case of a committee formed for ongoing political activity or section 9-619 in the case of a committee formed for a single election or primary.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 18, 34; 86-240, S. 8, 12; P.A. 00-99, S. 36, 154; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 35; P.A. 13-180, S. 18; P.A. 14-182, S. 12.)

History: P.A. 86-240 limited contributions to candidate for nomination or election to at-large municipal office other than chief executive officer to $250; P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriff in Subsec. (a)(3), effective December 1, 2000; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by increasing contribution limit for office of Governor from $2,500 to $5,000, for other state offices from $1,500 to $3,000, for office of municipal chief executive officer from $1,000 to $1,500, for office of state senator or probate judge from $500 to $1,500, for office of state representative from $250 to $750 and for any other office of municipality from $250 to $375, amended Subsec. (b) to increase limit on contributions to exploratory committee from $250 to $375 and amended Subsec. (d) to increase limit on contributions to state central committee from $5,000 to $7,500 and to a town committee from $1,000 to $1,500, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333q transferred to Sec. 9-615 in 2007; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (e) by deleting provision re contribution to committee designated in Subsec. (d) exceeding $15,000 in a calendar year, effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 14-182 made a technical change in Subsec. (e), effective June 12, 2014.

Sec. 9-616. (Formerly Sec. 9-333r). Contributions made or received by candidate committees. (a) A candidate committee shall not make contributions to, or for the benefit of, (1) a party committee, (2) a political committee, (3) a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office, (4) a national committee, or (5) another candidate committee except that (A) a pro rata sharing of certain expenses in accordance with subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 9-610 shall be permitted, and (B) after a political party nominates candidates for election to the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor, whose names shall be so placed on the ballot in the election that an elector will cast a single vote for both candidates, as prescribed in section 9-181, an expenditure by a candidate committee established by either such candidate that benefits the candidate committee established by the other such candidate shall be permitted.

(b) A candidate committee shall not receive contributions from any national committee or from a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 19, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 16, 28; P.A. 03-241, S. 15, 64; P.A. 23-205, S. 177.)

History: P.A. 91-351 inserted in Subsec. (a)(2) “except to a political committee which has been formed for a slate of convention delegates in a primary”; P.A. 03-241 amended Subsec. (a)(2) by eliminating exception for political committee formed for slate of convention delegates in primary, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date, and by adding Subpara. (B) in Subsec. (b)(5) re expenditures by candidate committees established by candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor who are nominated by same party and designating existing exception therein as Subpara. (A), effective July 1, 2003; Sec. 9-333r transferred to Sec. 9-616 in 2007; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change, effective June 29, 2023.

Sec. 9-617. (Formerly Sec. 9-333s). Contributions made or received by party committees. (a) A party committee may make unlimited contributions to, or for the benefit of, any of the following: (1) Another party committee; (2) a national committee of a political party; or (3) a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office. A party committee may also make contributions to a charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, or make memorial contributions. A town committee may also contribute to a scholarship awarded by a high school on the basis of objective criteria.

(b) (1) No state central committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of: (A) Governor, in excess of fifty thousand dollars; (B) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of thirty-five thousand dollars; (C) state senator, probate judge or chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of ten thousand dollars; (D) state representative, in excess of five thousand dollars; or (E) any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of five thousand dollars. The limits imposed by this subdivision shall apply separately to primaries and elections.

(2) No state central committee shall make a contribution or contributions in any one calendar year to, or for the benefit of (A) a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, in excess of ten thousand dollars, or (B) any other political committee, other than an exploratory committee or a committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, in excess of two thousand five hundred dollars. No state central committee shall make contributions in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars to an exploratory committee.

(c) (1) No town committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of: (A) Governor, in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars; (B) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of five thousand dollars; (C) state senator, in excess of five thousand dollars; (D) state representative, probate judge or chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of three thousand dollars; or (E) any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars. The limits imposed by this subdivision shall apply separately to primaries and elections.

(2) No town committee shall make a contribution or contributions in any one calendar year to, or for the benefit of (A) a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, in excess of two thousand dollars, or (B) any other political committee, other than an exploratory committee or a committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars. No town committee shall make contributions in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars to an exploratory committee.

(d) A party committee may receive contributions from a federal account of a national committee of a political party, but may not receive contributions from any other account of a national committee of a political party or from a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office, for use in the election of candidates subject to the provisions of this chapter.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 20, 34; P.A. 91-351, S. 17, 28; P.A. 98-7, S. 2, 4; P.A. 04-112, S. 2; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 36.)

History: P.A. 91-351 substituted, in Subsec. (b), “for use in the election of candidates subject to the provisions of this chapter” for “except in the distribution of a surplus as provided in Subsec. (c) of section 9-333j”; P.A. 98-7 amended Subsec. (b) to prohibit a party committee from receiving contributions from a nonfederal account of a national committee of a political party, effective January 1, 1999, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after that date; P.A. 04-112 amended Subsec. (a) by adding provision authorizing town committee to contribute to scholarship awarded by a high school, effective July 1, 2004; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provisions re authority of party committee to make unlimited contributions to a candidate or political committee, redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (d) and added new Subsecs. (b) and (c) re limits on contributions by state central and town committees to candidate, exploratory and political committees, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333s transferred to Sec. 9-617 in 2007.

Sec. 9-618. (Formerly Sec. 9-333t). Contributions made or received by political committees organized for ongoing political activities. (a) A political committee organized for ongoing political activities may make unlimited contributions to, or for the benefit of, any national committee of a political party; or a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office. Except as provided in subdivision (3) of subsection (d) of this section, no such political committee shall make a contribution or contributions in excess of two thousand dollars to another political committee in any calendar year. No political committee organized for ongoing political activities shall make a contribution in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars to an exploratory committee. If such an ongoing committee is established by an organization or a business entity, its contributions shall be subject to the limits imposed by sections 9-613 to 9-615, inclusive. A political committee organized for ongoing political activities may make contributions to a charitable organization which is a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as from time to time amended, or make memorial contributions.

(b) No political committee organized for ongoing political purposes, except a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of: (1) Governor, in excess of five thousand dollars; (2) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of three thousand dollars; (3) chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (4) state senator or probate judge, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (5) state representative, in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars; or (6) any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars. The limits imposed by this subsection shall apply separately to primaries and elections.

(c) No political committee organized for ongoing political purposes, except a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, shall make a contribution or contributions in a calendar year to, or for the benefit of (1) the state central committee of a political party, in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars; or (2) a town committee of a political party, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars.

(d) (1) No legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of: (A) State senator, in excess of ten thousand dollars; or (B) state representative, in excess of five thousand dollars. The limits imposed by this subdivision shall apply separately to primaries and elections. No legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to any office not included in this subdivision. Subject to the provisions of this subdivision, a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee may pay or reimburse another legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee for its pro rata share of certain expenses in accordance with subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 9-610.

(2) No legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make a contribution or contributions in any calendar year to, or for the benefit of, the state central committee of a political party, in excess of ten thousand dollars.

(3) No legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any committee except as provided in this subsection.

(e) A political committee organized for ongoing political activities may receive contributions from the federal account of a national committee of a political party, but may not receive contributions from any other account of a national committee of a political party or from a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 21, 34; P.A. 90-230, S. 77, 101; P.A. 98-7, S. 3, 4; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 37; P.A. 08-2, S. 13; P.A. 23-205, S. 175.)

History: P.A. 90-230 made technical change; P.A. 98-7 amended Subsec. (b) to prohibit a political committee organized for ongoing political activities from receiving contributions from a nonfederal account of a national committee of a political party, effective January 1, 1999, and applicable to elections and primaries held on or after that date; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provisions re authority of political committee organized for ongoing political activities to make unlimited contributions to a party or candidate committee and authority of political committee organized for ongoing political activities to make unlimited contributions to another such committee, adding exception re Subsec. (d)(2) and increasing limit on contributions to exploratory committee from $250 to $375, redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (e), added new Subsecs. (b) and (c) re limits on contributions to candidates and party committees by political committee organized for ongoing political purposes, except for legislative caucus or leadership committee, and added new Subsec. (d) re limits on contributions by legislative caucus or leadership committee to legislative candidates and party committees and prohibition on contributions to other candidates and committees, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333t transferred to Sec. 9-618 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (a) to change reference from Subsec. (d)(2) to Subsec. (d)(3), effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (d)(1) by adding provision re payment or reimbursement for pro rata share of certain expenses, effective June 29, 2023.

Sec. 9-619. (Formerly Sec. 9-333u). Contributions made or received by committees established for a single primary or election. (a) No political committee established for a single primary or election shall make contributions to a national committee, or a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office. If such a political committee is established by an organization or a business entity, its contributions shall also be subject to the limitations imposed by sections 9-613 to 9-615, inclusive. Except as provided in subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of this section, no political committee formed for a single election or primary shall, with respect to such election or primary make a contribution or contributions in excess of two thousand dollars to another political committee, provided no such political committee shall make a contribution in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars to an exploratory committee.

(b) No political committee established for a single primary or election, except a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, shall make a contribution or contributions to, for the benefit of, or pursuant to the authorization or request of, a candidate or a committee supporting or opposing any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary, or any candidate's campaign for election, to the office of: (1) Governor, in excess of five thousand dollars; (2) Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of the State, Treasurer, Comptroller or Attorney General, in excess of three thousand dollars; (3) chief executive officer of a town, city or borough, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (4) state senator or probate judge, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars; (5) state representative, in excess of seven hundred fifty dollars; or (6) any other office of a municipality not previously included in this subsection, in excess of three hundred seventy-five dollars. The limits imposed by this subsection shall apply separately to primaries and elections.

(c) No political committee established for a single primary or election, except a legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee, shall make a contribution or contributions in a calendar year to, or for the benefit of (1) the state central committee of a political party, in excess of seven thousand five hundred dollars; or (2) a town committee of a political party, in excess of one thousand five hundred dollars.

(3) No legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any committee except as provided in this subsection.

(e) A political committee established for a single primary or election shall not receive contributions from a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office or from a national committee.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 22, 34; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 38; P.A. 23-205, S. 176.)

History: Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provisions re authority of political committee established for a single election or primary to make unlimited contributions to a party or candidate committee, making a conforming change, adding exception re Subsec. (d)(2) and increasing limit on contributions to exploratory committee from $250 to $375, redesignated existing Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (e), added new Subsecs. (b) and (c) re limits on contributions to candidates and party committees by political committee established for a single election or primary, except for legislative caucus or leadership committee, and added new Subsec. (d) re limits on contributions by legislative caucus or leadership committee to legislative candidates and party committees and prohibition on contributions to other candidates and committees, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333u transferred to Sec. 9-619 in 2007; P.A. 23-205 amended Subsec. (d)(1) by adding provision re payment or reimbursement for pro rata share of certain expenses, effective June 29, 2023.

Sec. 9-620. (Formerly Sec. 9-333v). Contributions made or received by committees formed to promote success or defeat of referendum questions. (a) A political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question shall not make contributions to, or for the benefit of, a party committee, a political committee, a national committee, a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office or a candidate committee, except in the distribution of a surplus, as provided in subsection (e) of section 9-608.

(b) A political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question shall not receive contributions from a national committee or from a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-state office.

(c) No person, other than an individual or a committee, shall make a contribution to a political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, or to any other person, to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, in excess of ten cents for each individual residing in the state or political subdivision thereof in which such referendum question is to be voted upon, in accordance with the last federal decennial census.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 23, 34; P.A. 87-576, S. 5, 6; P.A. 10-187, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 87-576 added “or has expenses incurred but not paid” in Subsec. (d); Sec. 9-333v transferred to Sec. 9-620 in 2007; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (c) by making technical changes and deleted Subsec. (d) re reporting requirement, effective June 8, 2010.

Sec. 9-621. (Formerly Sec. 9-333w). Political advertising. (a) No individual shall make or incur any expenditure with the consent of, in coordination with or in consultation with any candidate, candidate committee or candidate's agent, no group of two or more individuals acting together that receives funds or makes or incurs expenditures not exceeding one thousand dollars in the aggregate and has not formed a political committee shall make or incur any expenditure, and no candidate or committee shall make or incur any expenditure including an organization expenditure for a party candidate listing, as defined in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (25) of section 9-601, for any written, typed or other printed communication, or any web-based, written communication, which promotes the success or defeat of any candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election or promotes or opposes any political party or solicits funds to benefit any political party or committee unless such communication bears upon its face as a disclaimer (1) the words “paid for by” and the following: (A) In the case of such an individual, the name and address of such individual; (B) in the case of a committee other than a party committee, the name of the committee and its treasurer; (C) in the case of a party committee, the name of the committee; or (D) in the case of a group of two or more individuals that receives funds or makes or incurs expenditures not exceeding one thousand dollars in the aggregate and has not formed a political committee, the name of the group and the name and address of its agent, and (2) the words “approved by” and the following: (A) In the case of an individual, group or committee other than a candidate committee making or incurring an expenditure with the consent of, in coordination with or in consultation with any candidate, candidate committee or candidate's agent, the name of the candidate; or (B) in the case of a candidate committee, the name of the candidate.

(b) In addition to the requirements of subsection (a) of this section:

(1) No candidate or candidate committee or exploratory committee established by a candidate shall make or incur any expenditure for television advertising or Internet video advertising, which promotes the success of such candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election or the defeat of another candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election, unless, as a disclaimer, (A) at the end of such advertising there appears simultaneously, for a period of not less than four seconds, (i) a clearly identifiable photographic or similar image of the candidate making such expenditure, (ii) a clearly readable printed statement identifying such candidate, and indicating that such candidate has approved the advertising, and (iii) a simultaneous, personal audio message, in the following form: “I am .... (candidate's name) and I approved this message”, and (B) the candidate's name and image appear in, and the candidate's voice is contained in, the narrative of the advertising, before the end of such advertising;

(2) No candidate or candidate committee or exploratory committee established by a candidate shall make or incur any expenditure for radio advertising or Internet audio advertising, which promotes the success of such candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election or the defeat of another candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election, unless, as a disclaimer, (A) the advertising ends with a personal audio statement by the candidate making such expenditure (i) identifying such candidate and the office such candidate is seeking, and (ii) indicating that such candidate has approved the advertising in the following form: “I am .... (candidate's name) and I approved this message”, and (B) the candidate's name and voice are contained in the narrative of the advertising, before the end of such advertising; and

(3) No candidate or candidate committee or exploratory committee established by a candidate shall make or incur any expenditure for automated telephone calls which promote the success of such candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election or the defeat of another candidate's campaign for nomination at a primary or election, unless the candidate's name and voice are contained in the narrative of the call, before the end of such call.

(c) No business entity, organization, association, committee, or group of two or more individuals who have joined solely to promote the success or defeat of a referendum question shall make or incur any expenditure for any written, typed or other printed communication which promotes the success or defeat of any referendum question unless such communication bears upon its face, as a disclaimer, the words “paid for by” and the following: (1) In the case of a business entity, organization or association, the name of the business entity, organization or association and the name of its chief executive officer or equivalent, and in the case such communication is made during the ninety-day period immediately prior to the referendum, such communication shall also bear on its face the names of the five persons who made the five largest aggregate covered transfers to such business entity, organization or association during the twelve-month period immediately prior to such referendum. The communication shall also state that additional information about the business entity, organization or association making such communication may be found on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's Internet web site; (2) in the case of a political committee, the name of the committee and the name of its treasurer; (3) in the case of a party committee, the name of the committee; or (4) in the case of such a group of two or more individuals, the name of the group and the name and address of its agent.

(d) The provisions of subsections (a), (b) and (c) of this section do not apply to (1) any editorial, news story, or commentary published in any newspaper, magazine or journal on its own behalf and upon its own responsibility and for which it does not charge or receive any compensation whatsoever, (2) any banner, (3) political paraphernalia including pins, buttons, badges, emblems, hats, bumper stickers or other similar materials, or (4) signs with a surface area of not more than thirty-two square feet.

(e) The treasurer of a candidate committee which sponsors any written, typed or other printed communication for the purpose of raising funds to eliminate a campaign deficit of that committee shall include in such communication a statement that the funds are sought to eliminate such a deficit.

(f) The treasurer of an exploratory committee or candidate committee established by a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Treasurer which committee sponsors any written, typed or other printed communication for the purpose of raising funds shall include in such communication a statement concerning the prohibitions set forth in subsection (n) of section 1-84, subsection (e) of section 9-612 and subsection (f) of section 9-613.

(g) In the event a treasurer of a candidate committee is replaced pursuant to subsection (c) of section 9-602, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the candidate committee from distributing any printed communication subject to the provisions of this section that has already been printed or otherwise produced, even though such communication does not accurately designate the successor treasurer of such candidate committee.

(h) (1) No person shall make or incur an independent expenditure for any written, typed or other printed communication, including on a billboard, or any web-based, written communication, unless such communication bears upon its face, as a disclaimer, the words “Paid for by” and the name of such person and the following statement: “This message was made independent of any candidate or political party.”. In the case of a person making or incurring such an independent expenditure during the ninety-day period immediately prior to the primary or election for which the independent expenditure is made, such communication shall also bear upon its face the names of the five persons who made the five largest aggregate covered transfers to the person making such communication during the twelve-month period immediately prior to such primary or election, as applicable. The communication shall also state that additional information about the person making such communication may be found on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's Internet web site.

(2) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection, no person shall make or incur an independent expenditure for a video broadcast by television, satellite or Internet, unless at the end of such advertising there appears for a period of not less than four seconds as a disclaimer, the following as an audio message and a written statement: “This message was paid for by (person making the communication) and made independent of any candidate or political party.”. In the case of a person making or incurring such an independent expenditure during the ninety-day period immediately prior to the primary or election for which the independent expenditure is made, such communication shall also list the names of the five persons who made the five largest aggregate covered transfers to the person making such communication during the twelve-month period immediately prior to such primary or election, as applicable. The communication shall also state that additional information about the person making such communication may be found on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's Internet web site.

(3) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection, no person shall make or incur an independent expenditure for an audio communication broadcast by radio, satellite or Internet, unless the advertising ends with a disclaimer that is a personal audio statement by such person's agent (A) identifying the person paying for the expenditure, and (B) indicating that the message was made independent of any candidate or political party, using the following form: “I am .... (name of the person's agent), .... (title), of .... (the person). This message was made independent of any candidate or political party.”. In the case of a person making or incurring such an independent expenditure during the ninety-day period immediately prior to the primary or election for which the independent expenditure is made, such communication shall state the names of the five persons who made the five largest aggregate covered transfers to the person making such communication during the twelve-month period immediately prior to such primary or election, as applicable. The communication shall also state that additional information about the person making such communication may be found on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's Internet web site.

(4) In addition to the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection, no person shall make or incur an independent expenditure for telephone calls, unless the narrative of the telephone call identifies the person making the expenditure and during the ninety-day period immediately prior to the primary or election for which the independent expenditure is made, such communication shall state the names of the five persons who made the five largest aggregate covered transfers to the person making such communication during the twelve-month period immediately prior to such primary or election, as applicable. The communication shall also state that additional information about the person making such communication may be found on the State Elections Enforcement Commission's Internet web site.

(i) In any print, television or social media promotion of a slate of candidates by a party committee, the party committee shall use applicable disclaimers pursuant to the provisions of this section for such promotion, and no individual candidate disclaimers shall be required.

(j) (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2) and (3) of this subsection, if any person whose name is included on a disclaimer of a communication pursuant to the provisions of this section, as a person who made a covered transfer to the maker of the communication, is also a recipient of a covered transfer, the maker of the communication, as part of any report filed pursuant to section 9-601d associated with the making of such communication, shall include the names of the five persons who made the top five largest aggregate covered transfers to such recipient during the twelve-month period immediately prior to the primary or election, as applicable.

(2) The name of any person who made a covered transfer to a tax-exempt organization recognized under Section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as amended from time to time, that has not had its tax exempt status revoked, shall not be disclosed pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection.

(3) The name of any person who made a covered transfer to a person whose name is included on a disclaimer pursuant to the provisions of this section shall not be disclosed pursuant to the provisions of subdivision (1) of this subsection if the recipient of such covered transfer accepts covered transfers from at least one hundred different sources, provided no such source accounts for ten per cent or more of the total amount of covered transfers accepted by the recipient during the twelve-month period immediately prior to the primary or election, as applicable.

(k) Any disclaimer required to be on the face of a written, typed or other printed communication pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be printed in no smaller than eight-point type of uniform font when such disclaimer is on a communication contained in a flyer or leaflet, newspaper, magazine or similar literature, or that is delivered by mail.

(l) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, no person making an independent expenditure for a communication shall be required to list as part of any disclaimer pursuant to this section any person whose covered transfers to the maker of the communication are not in an aggregate amount of five thousand dollars or more during the twelve-month period immediately prior to the primary or election, as applicable, for which such independent expenditure is made.

(m) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, any disclaimer required to be on the face of any Internet text advertisement communication (1) that appears based on the result of a search conducted by a user of an Internet search engine, and (2) the text of which contains two hundred or fewer characters, shall not be required to list the names of the five persons who made the top five largest aggregate covered transfers to the maker of such communication, as otherwise required by this section, if such disclaimer (A) includes a link to an Internet web site that discloses the names of such five persons, and (B) otherwise contains any statement required pursuant to the provisions of this section.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 24, 34; P.A. 91-159, S. 1; 91-351, S. 18, 28; P.A. 92-246, S. 4, 5; P.A. 94-143, S. 5, 6; P.A. 95-188, S. 4; 95-276, S. 2, 3; P.A. 96-119, S. 13, 14; P.A. 05-188, S. 4; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 39; P.A. 06-196, S. 55; P.A. 08-2, S. 14; P.A. 10-187, S. 10; P.A. 13-180, S. 9.)

History: P.A. 91-159 added banners to list of items to which section does not apply; P.A. 91-351 amended Subsec. (a) by applying disclosure requirements to incurring expenditures for a communication and to a communication soliciting funds to benefit a political party or committee and by adding Subdiv. (4) re disclosure for individuals who join to promote success or defeat of referendum question and file certification; P.A. 92-246 amended Subsec. (a) by inserting new Subdiv. (3) requiring communication paid for or sponsored by party committee to bear only the name of the committee and relettering former Subdivs. (3) and (4) accordingly; P.A. 94-143 amended Subsec. (a) by specifying that campaign literature must contain the words “paid for by” or “sponsored by”, amended Subsec. (b) by changing “this section does not apply” to “the provisions of subsection (a) of this section do not apply”, deleting “lawn or yard signs” from Subdiv. (3) and adding new Subdiv. (4) re signs, and added new Subsec. (c) re raising funds to eliminate a campaign deficit, effective January 1, 1995, and applicable to elections conducted on or after that date; P.A. 95-188 added Subsec. (d), subsequently relettered by the Revisors as Subsec. (e), re contents of advertising for funds for candidates for Treasurer; P.A. 95-276 amended Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) to exempt certain individuals from the disclosure requirements of the section and relettered the remaining Subsecs. accordingly, effective July 6, 1995; P.A. 96-119 added new Subsec. (f) re distribution of printed communication that does not accurately designate successor campaign treasurer, effective January 1, 1997; P.A. 05-188 amended Subsec. (a) by adding “or any web-based, written communication”, adding new Subdiv. (2) re requirement that printed or written communications include the words “approved by” and the name of the individual making or incurring the expenditure for the communication or the name of the candidate, and making conforming changes, added new Subsec. (b) re requirement that television, Internet video, radio and Internet audio advertising include identifying information and a statement approving the message, and redesignated existing Subsecs. (b) to (f) as Subsecs. (c) to (g), effective January 1, 2006; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (a) to prohibit candidate mailing expenditure unless the mailing contains candidate's name and photograph, amended Subsec. (b)(1) and (2) by prohibiting candidate television, radio or Internet audio or video advertising expenditure unless candidate's name, voice and image are used in the advertising, as appropriate, and by making technical changes therein and added Subsec. (b)(3) prohibiting automated telephone call expenditure unless candidate's name and voice contained in the call, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-196 made technical changes in Subsec. (b), effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333w transferred to Sec. 9-621 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (a) to include provision re organization expenditure for party candidate listing and eliminate requirement that mailings to promote success or defeat of a candidate in election or primary contain candidate's photograph and name, effective April 7, 2008; P.A. 10-187 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing “cooperation of, at the request or suggestion of” with “consent of, in coordination with”, adding provisions re groups receiving funds or making expenditures not exceeding $1,000, inserting “or promotes or opposes any political party” and, in Subdiv. (2)(A), inserting “group or committee other than a candidate committee”, amended Subsec. (c) by deleting provisions re certification requirement in Sec. 9-605 and by making technical changes and added Subsec. (h) re requirements for independent expenditures, effective June 8, 2010; P.A. 13-180 added “as a disclaimer”, replaced “campaign treasurer” with “treasurer”, substantially revised Subsecs. (c) and (h) by replacing provisions re attribution scheme with new provisions, replaced “entity” with “person” and added reference to billboard in Subsec. (h), added Subsec. (i) re slate of candidates, added Subsec. (j) re covered transfers, added Subsec. (k) re disclaimers on written, typed or other printed communication, added Subsec. (l) re covered transfers that do not exceed $5,000 in the aggregate, added Subsec. (m) re Internet text advertisement communication, and made technical and conforming changes, effective June 18, 2013.

Annotation to former section 9-333w:

Subsec. (a):

Is narrowly tailored to serve compelling state interests and is valid and enforceable. 255 C. 78.

Sec. 9-622. (Formerly Sec. 9-333x). Illegal practices. The following persons shall be guilty of illegal practices and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of section 9-623:

(1) Any person who, directly or indirectly, individually or by another person, gives or offers or promises to any person any money, gift, advantage, preferment, entertainment, aid, emolument or other valuable thing for the purpose of inducing or procuring any person to sign a nominating, primary or referendum petition or to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person or for or against any measure at any election, caucus, convention, primary or referendum;

(2) Any person who, directly or indirectly, receives, accepts, requests or solicits from any person, committee, association, organization or corporation, any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument or other valuable thing for the purpose of inducing or procuring any person to sign a nominating, primary or referendum petition or to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person or for or against any measure at any such election, caucus, primary or referendum;

(3) Any person who, in consideration of any money, gift, advantage, preferment, aid, emolument or other valuable thing paid, received, accepted or promised to the person's advantage or any other person's advantage, votes or refrains from voting for or against any person or for or against any measure at any such election, caucus, primary or referendum;

(4) Any person who solicits from any candidate any money, gift, contribution, emolument or other valuable thing for the purpose of using the same for the support, assistance, benefit or expenses of any club, company or organization, or for the purpose of defraying the cost or expenses of any political campaign, primary, referendum or election;

(5) Any person who, directly or indirectly, pays, gives, contributes or promises any money or other valuable thing to defray or towards defraying the cost or expenses of any campaign, primary, referendum or election to any person, committee, company, club, organization or association, other than to a treasurer, except that this subdivision shall not apply to any expenses for postage, telegrams, telephoning, stationery, express charges, traveling, meals, lodging or photocopying incurred by any candidate for office or for nomination to office, so far as may be permitted under the provisions of this chapter;

(6) Any person who, in order to secure or promote the person's own nomination or election as a candidate, or that of any other person, directly or indirectly, promises to appoint, or promises to secure or assist in securing the appointment, nomination or election of any other person to any public position, or to any position of honor, trust or emolument; but any person may publicly announce the person's own choice or purpose in relation to any appointment, nomination or election in which the person may be called to take part, if the person is nominated for or elected to such office;

(7) Any person who, directly or indirectly, individually or through another person, makes a payment or promise of payment to a treasurer in a name other than the person's own, and any treasurer who knowingly receives a payment or promise of payment, or enters or causes the same to be entered in the person's accounts in any other name than that of the person by whom such payment or promise of payment is made;

(8) Any person who knowingly and wilfully violates any provision of this chapter;

(9) Any person who offers or receives a cash contribution in excess of one hundred dollars to promote the success or defeat of any political party, candidate or referendum question;

(10) Any person who solicits, makes or receives a contribution that is otherwise prohibited by any provision of this chapter;

(11) Any department head or deputy department head of a state department who solicits a contribution on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any candidate for state, district or municipal office or any political party;

(12) Any municipal employee who solicits a contribution on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any candidate for state, district or municipal office, any political committee or any political party, from (A) an individual under the supervision of such employee, or (B) the spouse or a dependent child of such individual;

(13) Any person who makes an expenditure, that is not an independent expenditure, for a candidate without the knowledge of such candidate. No candidate shall be civilly or criminally liable with regard to any such expenditure;

(14) Any chief of staff of a legislative caucus who solicits a contribution on behalf of or for the benefit of any candidate for state, district or municipal office from an employee of the legislative caucus;

(15) Any chief of staff for a state-wide elected official who solicits a contribution on behalf of or for the benefit of any candidate for state, district or municipal office from a member of such official's staff;

(16) Any chief of staff for the Governor or Lieutenant Governor who solicits a contribution on behalf of or for the benefit of any candidate for state, district or municipal office from a member of the staff of the Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or from any commissioner or deputy commissioner of any state agency;

(17) Any foreign national that makes, directly or indirectly, (A) any contribution or any express or implied promise to make a contribution, or (B) any expenditure; or

(18) Any person who solicits, accepts or receives any contribution or covered transfer from a foreign national.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 25, 34; P.A. 87-524, S. 4, 7; P.A. 99-147; P.A. 02-130, S. 14; P.A. 03-241, S. 66; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 40; June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-3, S. 12; P.A. 10-187, S. 11; P.A. 13-180, S. 12; P.A. 24-28, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 87-524 deleted “or general assembly” in Subdivs. (1) and (2), thereby making provisions inapplicable to vote at any general assembly; P.A. 99-147 amended Subdivs. (1) and (2) by adding reference to the signing of nominating, primary or referendum petition, and making technical changes; P.A. 02-130 changed “corrupt practices” to “illegal practices” in the introductory clause and amended Subdiv. (9) by changing $50 to $100, effective January 1, 2003, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after said date; P.A. 03-241 added Subdiv. (12) re contributions solicited by supervisory municipal employees, effective July 1, 2003; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 added Subdiv. (13) re person making coordinated expenditure for candidate without candidate's knowledge, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333x transferred to Sec. 9-622 in 2007; June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-3 added Subdiv. (14) re chief of staff of a legislative caucus, Subdiv. (15) re chief of staff for a state-wide elected official and Subdiv. (16) re chief of staff for the Governor or Lieutenant Governor; P.A. 10-187 amended Subdiv. (13) by deleting references to coordinated expenditure and making illegal an expenditure that is not an independent expenditure, effective June 8, 2010; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” in Subdivs. (5) and (7), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 24-28 added Subdiv. (17) re any contribution, promise thereof or expenditure by foreign national and Subdiv. (18) re solicitation, acceptance or receipt of any contribution or covered transfer from a foreign national, effective May 21, 2024.

Subdiv. (7): To obtain conviction for violation under Subdiv., state must prove defendant acted with knowledge that his conduct was unlawful and with the intent to do something the law forbids, but it is not necessary for state to prove that defendant acted with knowledge that his conduct specifically violated Subdiv. 330 C. 344.

Sec. 9-623. (Formerly Sec. 9-333y). Penalties. (a) Any person who knowingly and wilfully violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a class D felony. The Secretary of the State or the town clerk shall notify the State Elections Enforcement Commission of any such violation of which said secretary or such town clerk may have knowledge. Any such fine for a violation of any provision of this chapter applying to the office of the Treasurer shall be deposited on a pro rata basis in any trust funds, as defined in section 3-13c, affected by such violation.

(b) (1) If any treasurer fails to file any statement required by section 9-608, or if any candidate fails to file either (A) a statement for the formation of a candidate committee as required by section 9-604, or (B) a certification pursuant to section 9-603 that the candidate is exempt from forming a candidate committee as required by section 9-604, within the time required, the treasurer or candidate, as the case may be, shall pay a late filing fee of one hundred dollars.

(2) In the case of any such statement or certification that is required to be filed with the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the commission shall, not later than ten days after the filing deadline is, or should be, known to have passed, notify by certified mail, return receipt requested, the person required to file that, if such statement or certification is not filed not later than twenty-one days after such notice, the person is in violation of section 9-603, 9-604 or 9-608.

(3) In the case of any such statement or certification that is required to be filed with a town clerk, the town clerk shall forthwith after the filing deadline is, or should be, known to have passed, notify by certified mail, return receipt requested, the person required to file that, if such statement or certification is not filed not later than seven days after the town clerk mails such notice, the town clerk shall notify the State Elections Enforcement Commission that the person is in violation of section 9-603, 9-604 or 9-608.

(4) The penalty for any violation of section 9-603, 9-604 or 9-608 shall be a fine of not less than two hundred dollars or more than two thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 26, 34; P.A. 89-251, S. 64, 203; P.A. 93-192, S. 2, 3; 93-251, S. 4, 5; P.A. 95-60, S. 1, 3; P.A. 96-119, S. 10, 14; P.A. 00-43, S. 11, 19; P.A. 05-235, S. 11; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 41; P.A. 06-196, S. 56; P.A. 08-2, S. 15; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 151; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-8, S. 43; P.A. 13-180, S. 10, 12; 13-258, S. 40.)

History: P.A. 89-251 increased the late filing fee from $50 to $55; P.A. 93-192 deleted requirement that secretary of the state and town clerk notify chief state's attorney and state's attorney of violations, effective July 1, 1993, and applicable to violations committed on or after that date; P.A. 93-251 applied section to lobbyist statements required by Subsec. (g) of Sec. 9-333l, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-60 divided section into Subsecs. and amended Subsec. (b) to clarify procedure for notifying persons who have not filed and the State Elections Enforcement Commission, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-119 required notification by secretary within 10 rather than 7 days after the filing deadline in Subsec. (b), effective May 24, 1996; P.A. 00-43 amended Subsec. (a) to provide for deposit of penalties for violations involving the Treasurer's office, effective May 3, 2000; P.A. 05-235 amended Subsec. (b) by dividing existing provisions into Subdivs. (1) to (4), amending Subdiv. (1) to increase late filing fee from $55 to $100 and apply said fee to a candidate failing to file either a statement for formation of candidate committee or a certification that candidate is exempt from forming candidate committee, amending Subdivs. (2), (3) and (4) to modify the notification procedure and deadlines for late filings and to make conforming changes, and amending Subdiv. (4) to substitute fine of not less than $200 nor more than $2,000 for fine of not more than $1,000, effective July 1, 2005; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 amended Subsec. (b) by changing “Secretary of the State” to “State Elections Enforcement Commission” and making conforming and technical changes, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; P.A. 06-196 made a technical change in Subsec. (b)(4), effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-333y transferred to Sec. 9-623 in 2007; P.A. 08-2 amended Subsec. (b) to eliminate references to statements filed by lobbyists and references to Sec. 9-610(g), effective April 7, 2008; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (b)(1) to increase late filing fee from $100 to $200; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-8 amended Subsec. (b)(1) to change late filing fee from $200 to $100, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 13-180 amended Subsec. (a) to increase maximum fine from $5,000 to $25,000, unless a larger amount is otherwise provided for under chapter, and to eliminate imprisonment of not more than 5 years as a penalty, effective June 18, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurer” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurer” in Subsec. (b)(1), effective June 18, 2013; P.A. 13-258 amended Subsec. (a) to change penalty from fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment of not more than 5 years to a class D felony.

“Knowingly and wilfully” under this section, compared with “knowingly” as applied to campaign treasurers in Sec. 9-622(7), supports conclusion that the former is more than mere knowledge of the act and intermediate level of intent strikes the proper balance. 330 C. 344.

Sec. 9-624. (Formerly Sec. 9-346a). Preparation and distribution of forms; town clerk's fee. (a) The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall prepare and print the forms required for compliance with this chapter and distribute them upon request to candidates and treasurers.

(b) The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall, at the expense of the state, prepare and print all forms for statements required to be returned under the provisions of this chapter and shall furnish to each town clerk a sufficient supply of each of such blank forms as are required to be filed with or returned to the town clerk. The town clerk of each town shall, upon request, distribute to treasurers the forms required for compliance with this chapter and, if not salaried, shall be entitled to receive from the town the sum of ten cents for each copy.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 27, 34; Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5, S. 54; P.A. 13-180, S. 12.)

History: Oct. 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 05-5 changed “Secretary of the State” to “State Elections Enforcement Commission”, effective December 31, 2006, and applicable to elections held on or after that date; Sec. 9-346a transferred to Sec. 9-624 in 2007; pursuant to P.A. 13-180, “campaign treasurers” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “treasurers”, effective June 18, 2013.

Sec. 9-625. (Formerly Sec. 9-346b). Powers of state referees and judges. Preservation of testimony. Witnesses. Expenses of inquiry. (a) Any state referee or any judge of the Superior Court may, upon the written request of any state's attorney or any assistant state's attorney, conduct an inquiry as to whether any crime has been committed concerning any matters mentioned in such request, within the jurisdiction of such state's attorney or assistant state's attorney making such request, and any such referee or judge, and any such state's or assistant state's attorney, may compel the attendance of any person as a witness by subpoena issued by him; and such person, having been sworn as a witness, may be examined relative to any such matter under investigation. Such referee, judge or attorney may also compel the production for examination at such inquiry of any books or papers or any other thing which he may require in the conduct of such inquiry by subpoena duces tecum issued by him. Such referee or judge may cause any person who fails to appear before him as a witness, having been summoned, to be brought before him by a capias issued by him; and any person in attendance as a witness who refuses to be sworn as a witness, or who, being sworn, refuses to answer any proper question propounded to him, and any person summoned who fails to appear before the referee or judge, may be adjudged guilty of contempt which shall be punishable as a class D misdemeanor. In any proceeding held under the provisions of this section, if any witness objects to testifying or to producing any book, paper or other thing on the ground that such testimony, book, paper or thing may tend to degrade or incriminate him or render him liable to a penalty or forfeiture, and such referee or judge directs or compels such witness to testify or to produce such book, paper or thing, he shall not be prosecuted for any matter concerning which he has so testified, or evidenced by such book, paper or thing so produced, except for perjury committed in so testifying.

(b) In the conduct of any such inquiry the referee, judge, state's attorney or assistant state's attorney may employ a competent stenographer to take notes of the examination of any witness, and may furnish a transcript of such notes to any prosecuting officer having jurisdiction of the subject matter of such inquiry. The referee or judge may require the attendance and assistance, at any such inquiry and in procuring the attendance of witnesses, of any state policeman, constable or police officer, who shall be allowed such compensation as the referee or judge deems reasonable.

(c) The referee, judge, state's attorney or assistant state's attorney shall return to the clerk of the superior court for the judicial district in which such inquiry is held an account of all expenses incurred in the discharge of the duties imposed by this section or required by this chapter, including witness fees, and shall endorse the same, if correct, or such items of the account as are correct, and the endorsed sums shall be paid by the state on the order of the clerk.

(P.A. 86-99, S. 28, 34; P.A. 00-99, S. 37, 154; P.A. 12-80, S. 56.)

History: P.A. 00-99 deleted reference to sheriff and deputy sheriff in Subsec. (b), effective December 1, 2000; Sec. 9-346b transferred to Sec. 9-625 in 2007; P.A. 12-80 amended Subsec. (a) to change penalty for person adjudged guilty of contempt from a fine of not more than $25 or imprisonment of not more than 30 days or both to a class D misdemeanor.

Annotation to former section 9-346b:

Cited. 222 C. 799.

Secs. 9-626 to 9-674. Reserved for future use.