{"id":5736,"date":"2012-01-20T08:16:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:26:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T19:26:42","slug":"bill-would-require-reporting-of-electioneering-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=5736","title":{"rendered":"Bill would require reporting of electioneering communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electioneering communication of more than $250 would require a report to the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission under a bill heard Jan. 19 by the Government, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n<p>LB754, introduced by Lincoln Sen. Bill Avery, would define an electioneering communication as one that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>refers to a clearly defined candidate;<\/li>\n<li>is publicly distributed in the 30 days before an election; and<\/li>\n<li>is directed to the electorate of an office sought by the clearly defined candidate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Contributions and expenditures would be excluded from the definition of an electioneering communication, as would a candidate debate, a communication by the media or by a membership organization to its members or about a specific bill while the Legislature is in session.<\/p>\n<p>Avery said the measure was similar to a bill he introduced last session that stalled during select file debate. He said LB754 addresses concerns expressed by various organizations regarding how membership organizations and voter guides are defined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have incorporated all of the suggestions made to me last year into this bill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Under the bill, membership would be established when an individual indicates intent to join or pays dues to an organization.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Daley, executive director of the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission, testified in support of bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simple point of the bill \u2026 is that if you\u2019re going to spend money in connection with Nebraska elections, you have to report it,\u201d Daley said.<\/p>\n<p>There was no opposition testimony and the committee took no immediate action on the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electioneering communication of more than $250 would require a report to the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission under a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-military-and-veterans-affairs","tag-sen-bill-avery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13523,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/13523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}