2025 bills / S.B. 18
S.B. 18 Election Fundraising Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill exempts campaign contributions for federal office made by someone other than a lobbyist or principal from the ban on contributions during a legislative session or the governor's bill-veto period. It makes it a crime to make a federal contribution intended to influence or reward the governor or a state official for taking or not taking an action.
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Official description
- defines terms
- exempts a campaign contribution for federal office, made by a person other than a lobbyist or principal, from the prohibition on campaign contributions during a legislative session or the time period when the governor may veto a bill
- makes it a crime to make a federal contribution with the intent to influence the governor or a state official to take or not take an action or to reward the governor or a state official for taking or not taking an action
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 18 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 18 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 21, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 1 no, 1 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 27, 2025Who voted how
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 29 yes, 0 noSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Feb 4, 2025Who voted how