Section 100.70  Reports of Contributions and Expenditures

a)         Reference:  This Section interprets or applies Sections 9-10, 9-13, and 9-14 of the Election Code.

b)         For purposes of determining the amount of contributions in excess of $500 under Section 9-10(b-5) of the Election Code, all contributions received between the last date of the period covered by the last report filed prior to the election and the election from a single person, as defined in Section 9-1.6, shall be aggregated and treated as one.

c)         An expenditure to a payee who is in whole or in part only a conduit for payment to another, such as a political consultant or a credit card issuer, must include by way of detail or separate entry the amount of funds passing to each vendor, business entity or person to receive funds from the payment, together with the reason for each disbursement and the beneficiary of the disbursement.  Nothing in this Section shall be construed to impose a reporting obligation on any person not otherwise required to report under Article 9 of the Election Code or to require the itemization of expenditures not otherwise required to be itemized under Article 9 of the Election Code.

d)           Pre-Election and A-1 Reports

1)         Every active political committee must file a pre-election report and A-1 reports, as required by Sections 9-10(b) and 9-10(b)(5) of the Election Code, in conjunction with every next election unless:

A)        the political committee is not, by the terms of its D-1 Statement of Organization, organized to support or oppose a candidate or public question on the ballot at the next election; and

B)        the political committee does not make expenditures in excess of $500, including in-kind contributions, on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate or public question on the ballot at an election.

2)        An active political committee that meets the requirements of subsections (d)(1)(A) and (B) shall be deemed a nonparticipating political committee and may file, in lieu of a pre-election report, a Statement of Non-Participation for the next election (see Section 9-10 of the Election Code).

e)         A committee that, having filed a Statement of Non-Participation, makes an expenditure in excess of $500 or expends or has expended an aggregate amount in excess of $500 on behalf of or in opposition to a candidate or on behalf of a question of public policy that will appear on the ballot at the next election shall file a pre-election report within five days after making the expenditure, or if the expenditure that triggers the requirement to file a pre-election report is made during the five days immediately prior to the election, within 24 hours after making the expenditure.  In addition to filing a pre-election report, the committee shall timely file a Schedule A-1 for each contribution exceeding $500, beginning with the date the expenditure that triggered the obligation to file a pre-election report was made.

(Source:  Amended at 30 Ill. Reg. 10261, effective June 1, 2006)