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Many expenditures whether made directly by the campaign or by a staffer who is then reimbursed require a detailed description of what was purchased.
Hire a campaign consultant? The public needs to know if they spent some of the money on subvendors.
Buy advertising? Report the… read more
The Public Disclosure Commission is offering support for the goals of a Seattle proposal that would limit contributions to independent-expenditure political committees and bar donations from foreign-included companies.
Image In a letter to the… read more
If you hold an elected office and you're running for office, by state law, you can't ask government employees serving under you for contributions. You can take a contribution if they give you one, but you can't ask, and you can't have someone else ask for you.
The Public Disclosure Commission is seeking public comment on proposed permanent rules that would help implement 2019 legislation that clarified some areas of the state's campaign finance disclosure law, enacted reforms to make reporting easier and more useful, and improved the public's access… read more
The Public Disclosure Commission is seeking public comment on proposed permanent rules that would help implement 2019 legislation that clarified some areas of the state's campaign finance disclosure law, enacted reforms to make reporting easier and more useful, and improved the public's access… read more
The Public Disclosure Commission, in addition to testimony taken at a Sept. 26 hearing, received several written comments on the permanent rules it proposed in response to 2019 legislation.
The rules would help administer and promote compliance with new laws that made changes to campaign… read more
The Public Disclosure Commission has adopted emergency rules to implement agency-request legislation passed by the 2019 Legislature.
SHB 1195 took effect immediately upon being signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on May 21.
The legislation, which was the product of public and stakeholder… read more
When you register a candidate's election campaign or a political committee, you chose full or mini reporting. A candidate who chooses mini submits only one other document, the F-1 personal financial affairs statement. A political committee that picks mini reporting has no additional reports to… read more
The amount that a political party may donate to your election campaign depends on how many registered voters there are in the jurisdiction where you're running. If you don't have that number entered into ORCA, even a $1 contribution will make ORCA say that they gave too much.
If you're… read more
Candidates for port districts face contribution limits many for the first time under a new state law that takes effect July 28
House Bill 1375 removes the population threshold that currently determines which port districts are subject to contribution limits. That threshold 200,000… read more