§ 3517.22

materials - issues.
Effective: September 30, 2025
Legislation: House Bill 96


(A) No person during the course of any campaign in advocacy of or in opposition to the adoption of
any proposition or issue submitted to the voters shall knowingly and with intent to affect the
outcome of such campaign do any of the following:


(1) Serve, or place another person to serve, as an agent or employee in the election campaign
organization of a committee which advocates or is in opposition to the adoption of any ballot
proposition or issue for the purpose of acting to impede the conduct of the campaign on the
proposition or issue or of reporting information to the employee's employer or the agent's principal
without the knowledge of the committee;


(2) Promise, offer, or give any valuable thing or valuable benefit to any person who is employed by
or is an agent of a committee in advocacy of or in opposition to the adoption of any ballot
proposition or issue, for the purpose of influencing the employee or agent with respect to the
improper discharge of the employee's or agent's campaign duties or to obtain information about the
committee's campaign organization.


(B) No person, during the course of any campaign in advocacy of or in opposition to the adoption of
any ballot proposition or issue, by means of campaign material, including sample ballots, an
advertisement on radio or television or in a newspaper or periodical, a public speech, a press release,
or otherwise, shall knowingly and with intent to affect the outcome of such campaign do any of the
following:


(1) Falsely identify the source of a statement, issue statements under the name of another person
without authorization, or falsely state the endorsement of or opposition to a ballot proposition or
issue by a person or publication;


(2) Post, publish, circulate, distribute, or otherwise disseminate, a false statement, either knowing the



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same to be false or acting with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not, that is designed to
promote the adoption or defeat of any ballot proposition or issue.




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