§ 169.218aElectronic filing and internet disclosure system; adoption by county clerk

Sec. 18a.
    (1) A county clerk may adopt an electronic filing and internet disclosure system developed
 or approved by the secretary of state that permits committees that are required to file
 statements or reports under this act with the county clerk to file those statements or reports


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 electronically and that provides internet disclosure of electronically filed statements or reports
 on a website. If the secretary of state develops an internet disclosure system, the secretary of
 state shall not charge a county clerk for the software for that system.
    (2) A county clerk who adopts a system under subsection (1) may require each committee
 that received or expended the threshold amount set by the county clerk as provided in this
 subsection in the preceding calendar year or expects to receive or expend the threshold amount
 set by the county clerk in the current calendar year to file campaign statements or reports
 electronically. A county clerk shall set the threshold under this subsection at $5,000.00 or
 $1,500.00.
    (3) A county clerk who adopts a system under subsection (1) shall permit a committee to
 electronically file statements and reports required under this act, as described in subsection
 (1), except an original statement of organization, after the committee treasurer and, for a
 candidate committee, the candidate has signed and filed a form designed by the secretary of
 state to serve as the signature verifying the accuracy and completeness of each statement or
 report filed electronically.
    (4) If a committee was not required to file a campaign statement under subsection (2) only
 because it did not meet the applicable threshold, but the committee later reaches that threshold,
 the committee shall notify the county clerk within 10 business days after reaching that
 threshold and shall subsequently file electronically all statements and reports required under
 this act.