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If you file reports for a campaign, you may have seen the "Credit Card Debt" option in the ORCA system. Most campaigns should never use this feature. The credit card debt function should only be used if the campaign has its own credit card, issued by the bank just for that election campaign or… read more

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.

In a letter to… 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, 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

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

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