Key Dates: 2025

Register the campaign. (Candidates also file an F-1.)

NOTES:  Committees organizing within three weeks of election must register within 3 business days of organizing. File an amended registration within 10 days of any changes.

21-day pre-primary C-4. Candidates appearing on the primary election ballot file a C-4 that covers the period June 1 through July 14. So do committees supporting or opposing candidates.

Candidates not on the primary election ballot and committees only supporting or opposing general election ballot measures file monthly reports in June, July and August. These reports due on the 10th of the following month.

Special reports due if candidate or committee receives contributions of $1,500 or more from a single source, or committee makes contributions of $1,500 or more.

NOTE: Does not constitute authority to exceed applicable local or state contribution limit.

Post-primary C-4 due. Covers the period between July 29 and Aug. 31.

Candidates not on the primary election ballot and committees that did not participate in the primary file a report for the month of August

1. Special reports due if a candidate or political committee receives contributions of $1,500 or more from a single source, or if a political committee makes a contribution of $1,500 or more.
2. A candidate for statewide office may not accept contributions from a single source exceeding $75,000 in the aggregate unless it is from the state committee of a bona fide major or minor political party. 
3. A candidate for another office or a political committee may not receive contributions from a single source exceeding $7,500 in the aggregate unless it is from the state committee of a bona fide major or minor political party. The exception is ballot measure committees, which may receive larger contributions.