Section 100.170  Sponsoring Entity

a)         A sponsoring entity is a person that contributes not less than 33% of the total funding of any political committee at any time during a semi-annual reporting period following the 30^th day after the committee has filed its statement of organization.

b)         Person includes natural persons, corporations, partnerships, political committees and unincorporated associations.

c)         Total funding means the sum of the funds available at the beginning of the reporting period and the total receipts for the semi-annual reporting period.

d)         Total receipts means any contributions as defined in Section 9-1.4 of the Election Code that are received by the committee.

e)         Each  political committee shall include in its name the name of any sponsoring entity.

f)          If, at any time during a semi-annual reporting period, a committee that has not previously identified a sponsoring entity receives 33% of its total funding during that semi-annual reporting period from a single person, the committee must amend its Statement of Organization to identify the sponsoring entity.

g)         A political committee, the name of which includes the name of the candidate supported by the committee, the name of an established political party as that term is used in Article 7 of Election Code, or the name of a new political party as that term is used in Article 10 of the Election Code satisfies the requirements of this Section without the need for further statement of sponsoring entity in the name of the committee.

h)         A political committee is not a sponsoring entity if it is organized by an established political party as that term is used in Section 10-2 of the Election Code, a partisan caucus of either house of the General Assembly, the Speaker or Minority Leader of the House of Representatives or the President or Minority Leader of the Senate in their official capacities (see Section 9-3 of the Election Code).

i)          The name of the sponsoring entity shall be the full name of the person, and not an acronym.

j)          A committee is required to identify its sponsoring entity so long as it receives not less than 33% of its total funding from a single person.  A committee may amend its Statement of Organization to delete the name of its sponsoring entity from its name if, for two consecutive semi-annual reporting periods, it fails to receive not less than 33% of its total funding from a single person.

k)         If, at any time during a semi-annual reporting period, a committee that has identified a sponsoring entity receives not less than 33% of its total funding from a different single person than the person identified as its sponsoring entity, it shall amend its Statement of Organization to include in its name the name of the new sponsoring entity.

l)          If a committee receives support from two or more persons, each one of which would independently of the other meet the definition of a sponsoring entity, the name of the committee shall include all such persons.

(Source:  Amended at 29 Ill. Reg. 18785, effective November 7, 2005)