misdemeanor; penalty; contents of statement; name of sponsor; amendment; statement
as to receipts or expenditures; filing statement indicating dissolution of committee;
exception; political committee considered as independent expenditure committee.
Sec. 24.
(1) A committee shall file a statement of organization with the filing officials designated in
section 36 to receive the committee's campaign statements. A committee shall file a statement
of organization within 10 days after the committee is formed. A filing official shall maintain a
statement of organization filed by a committee until 5 years after the official date of the
committee's dissolution. A person who fails to file a statement of organization required by this
subsection shall pay a late filing fee of $10.00 for each business day the statement remains not
filed in violation of this subsection. The late filing fee must not exceed $300.00. A person who
violates this subsection by failing to file for more than 30 days after a statement of
organization is required to be filed is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more
than $1,000.00.
(2) The statement of organization required to be filed under subsection (1) must include the
following information:
(a) The name, street address, and if available, the electronic mail address and telephone
number of the committee, and the electronic mail address of the candidate. If a committee is a
candidate committee, the committee name must include the first and last name of the
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candidate. A committee address may be the home address of the candidate or treasurer of the
committee.
(b) The name, street address, and if available, the electronic mail address and telephone
number of the treasurer or other individual designated as responsible for the committee's
record keeping, report preparation, or report filing.
(c) The name and address of the financial institution in which the official committee
depository is or is intended to be located, and the name and address of each financial
institution in which a secondary depository is or is intended to be located.
(d) The full name of the office being sought by, including district number or jurisdiction,
and the county residence of each candidate supported or opposed by the committee.
(e) A brief statement identifying the substance of each ballot question supported or opposed
by the committee. If the ballot question supported or opposed by the committee is a local
ballot question, the committee shall identify the county in which the greatest number of
registered voters eligible to vote on the ballot question reside.
(f) Identification of the committee as a candidate committee, political party committee,
independent committee, independent expenditure committee, political committee, or ballot
question committee if it is identifiable as such a committee.
(3) An independent committee or political committee shall include in the name of the
committee the name of the person or persons that sponsor the committee, if any, or with whom
the committee is affiliated. A person, other than an individual or a committee, sponsors or is
affiliated with an independent committee or political committee if that person establishes,
directs, controls, or financially supports the administration of the committee. For the purposes
of this subsection, a person does not financially support the administration of a committee by
merely making a contribution to the committee.
(4) If any of the information required in a statement of organization is changed, the
committee shall file an amendment when the next campaign statement is required to be filed.
(5) When filing a statement of organization, a committee, other than an independent
committee, a political committee, or a political party committee, may indicate in a written
statement signed by the treasurer of the committee that the committee does not expect for each
election to receive an amount in excess of $1,000.00 or expend an amount in excess of
$1,000.00. The treasurer of a committee of an incumbent judge or supreme court justice is
considered to have made the statement required under this subsection following appointment
or election of that judge or justice and is not required to file a written statement under this
subsection indicating that the committee does not expect for each election to receive or expend
an amount in excess of $1,000.00.
(6) When filing a statement of organization, an independent committee, an independent
expenditure committee, a political committee, or a political party committee may indicate in a
written statement signed by the treasurer of the committee that the committee does not expect
in a calendar year to receive or expend an amount in excess of $1,000.00.
(7) Upon the dissolution of a committee, the committee shall file a statement indicating
dissolution with the filing officials with whom the committee's statement of organization was
filed. Dissolution of a committee must be accomplished pursuant to rules promulgated by the
secretary of state under the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201
to 24.328.
(8) A candidate committee that files a written statement under subsection (5) or that is
considered to have made a statement under subsection (5) is not required to file a dissolution
statement under subsection (7) if the committee failed to receive or expend an amount in
excess of $1,000.00 and 1 of the following applies:
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(a) The candidate was defeated in an election and has no outstanding campaign debts or
assets.
(b) The candidate vacates an elective office and has no outstanding campaign debts or
assets.
(9) A political committee organized for the purpose of making independent expenditures
formed before December 31, 2019 is considered an independent expenditure committee. The
secretary of state may amend the statement of organization for any committee affected by this
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