Summary: Campaign finance; prohibited contributionsto candidates; Phase I Utility and Phase II Utility. Prohibitscandidates, campaign committees, and political committees from solicitingor accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined inthe bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committeeestablished by such public utility from making any such contribution.

Summary: Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits;penalty. Imposes contribution limits on individuals giving tocampaigns, political action committees and political party committeesand on campaign committees contributing to other campaign committees,political action committees, or political party committees. The billauthorizes a political party committee to keep a separate legal fundfor the sole purpose of paying for legal expenses.

Summary: Campaign finance; out-of-district contributionlimits; civil penalty. Prohibits contributions to a candidate's campaign from persons that are not residents of the Commonwealthand limits to 75 percent of total contributions to a candidate'scampaign contributions from persons and committees with a candidate, treasurer, or custodian of books who are not residents of the districtserved by the office to which the candidate is seeking election. Thebill provides that contributions made by a candidate or a candidate'sfamily to the candidate's campaign do not count toward such contributionlimits. The bill also provides that penalties for violations of such contribution limits may equal up to two times the excess contribution amounts.

Summary: State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. The bill specifically provides that it is not a violation of this prohibition to (i) operate a polling place or voter satellite office in a facility furnished by a private individual or nongovernmental entity or (ii) accept a federal government grant funded in whole or part by donations from private individuals or nongovernmental entities. This bill is identical to SB 80.

Summary: Campaign finance; prohibited contributions tocandidates. Prohibits any candidate from soliciting or acceptinga contribution from any public service corporation or any politicalaction committee established and administered by such a corporation.

Summary: Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits;civil penalty. Establishes contribution limits from any individualto any candidate campaign committee, political action committee,and political party committee and from any political action committeeor political party committee to any campaign committee. The billprovides that any candidate, candidate campaign committee, politicalaction committee, political party committee, or contributor thatknowingly violates the contributions limits established by the billis subject to a civil penalty of up to two times the amount by whichthe contribution exceeds the limit. The bill prohibits any personthat is not an individual from making any contribution to any candidatefor elected office.

Summary: Campaign finance; prohibited personal use ofcampaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisoryopinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributionsto a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributionswith regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution ofa campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contributionis considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution,in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation,or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking,holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personaluse" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning foror holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds topay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as adirect result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personaluse ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Electionson such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections toadopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the FederalElection Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and toprovide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgatedby the State Board of Elections.

Summary: Campaign finance; prohibited personal use ofcampaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributionsto a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributionswith regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution ofa campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contributionis considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution,in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation,or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking,holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personaluse" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning foror holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds topay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as adirect result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personaluse ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Electionson such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections toadopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the FederalElection Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and toprovide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgatedby the State Board of Elections.

Summary: Elections; campaign finance; contributions frompersons that are not individuals; source of funds reporting requirements.Prohibits any person that is not an individual from making any contributionin excess of $20,000 that is not a bundled contribution composedof amounts attributable to individual donors to a candidate, campaign committee, political action committee, political party committee,referendum committee, or inaugural committee. The bill also prohibitsthe acceptance of any such contribution. Any such committee that accepts bundled contributions is required to report the completeidentifying information of all the individual contributors whosecontributions compose the bundled contribution, regardless of theamount of the bundled contribution attributed to any such individual.