§ 82013

Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 364, Sec. 1. (AB 594) Effective January 1, 2016. Note: This section was added on June 4, 1974, by initiative Prop. 9.

“Committee” means any person or combination of persons who directly or indirectly does any of the following:

(a)Receives contributions totaling two thousand dollars ($2,000) or more in a calendar year.
(b)Makes independent expenditures totaling one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more in a calendar

year; or

(c)Makes contributions totaling ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more in a calendar year to or at the behest of candidates or committees.

A person or combination of persons that becomes a committee shall retain its status as a committee until such time as that status is terminated pursuant to Section 84214.

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