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1 State of Arkansas A Bill
2 95th General Assembly
3 Regular Session, 2025 HOUSE BILL 1449
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5 By: Representative A. Collins
6 By: Senator K. Hammer
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8 For An Act To Be Entitled
9 AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REPORTS OF
10 CONTRIBUTIONS FOR A CANDIDATE FOR STATE OR DISTRICT
11 OFFICE; TO EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR FINAL REPORTS; TO
12 AMEND PORTIONS OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED ACT 1
13 OF 1990; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
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16 Subtitle
17 TO AMEND THE LAW CONCERNING REPORTS OF
18 CONTRIBUTIONS FOR A CANDIDATE FOR STATE
19 OR DISTRICT OFFICE; TO EXTEND THE
20 DEADLINE FOR FINAL REPORTS; AND TO AMEND
21 PORTIONS OF LAW RESULTING FROM INITIATED
22 ACT 1 OF 1990.
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24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ARKANSAS:
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26 SECTION 1. Arkansas Code � 7-6-207(a)(1)(B), concerning required
27 reports of contributions for candidates for state or district offices and
28 resulting from Initiated Act 1 of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
29 (B)(i) Beginning with the month of January of a calendar
30 year in which a candidate may be listed on any ballot for election, a monthly
31 report of all contributions received and expenditures made during that month.
32 However, for any month in which certain days of that month are included in a
33 preelection report required under subdivision (a)(1)(C) of this section or a
34 final report required under subdivision (a)(1)(D) of this section, no monthly
35 report for that month shall be due.
36 (ii) In the case of a primary or runoff election,
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1 those days of the month occurring after the date of the election shall be
2 carried forward and included in the next monthly report.
3 (iii) The monthly report shall be filed no later
4 than twenty (20) days after the end of each month, except that the final
5 report, covering the month during which an election is held, shall be filed
6 within thirty (30) days after the end of the month in which the last election
7 is held at which the candidate seeks nomination and after the end of the
8 month in which the general election is held shall be filed as required in
9 subdivision (a)(1)(D)(i) of this section.
10 (iv) With respect to a special election, the
11 candidate shall file monthly reports under this section beginning with the
12 month in which the special election candidate's total campaign contributions
13 or expenditures exceed five hundred dollars ($500);
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15 SECTION 2. Arkansas Code � 7-6-207(a)(1)(D)(i), concerning required
16 reports of contributions for candidates for state or district offices and
17 resulting from Initiated Act 1 of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
18 (D)(i) No later than the last day of the month twenty (20)
19 days after the end of the month following the month in which the candidate's
20 name has appeared on the ballot in any primary election, runoff election,
21 general election, or special election, or when only one (1) candidate
22 qualifies for a particular office or position and no position or name of an
23 unopposed candidate shall appear on a ballot, a final report of covering all
24 contributions received and expenditures made for that election which have not
25 been disclosed on reports previously required to be filed through the month
26 following the month during which a primary election, runoff election, general
27 election, or special election is held.
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