SB17 — prohibit a candidate or political committee from accepting contributions or loans made by a foreign national, to provide a penalty therefor, and to declare an emergency.
What changed between bill versions as it moved through the Legislature.
The amendment corrects punctuation and grammatical formatting throughout the bill's prohibitions on foreign contributions and loans while raising the penalty for initial violations from a Class 2 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor and for repeat offenses from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, thereby STRENGTHENING enforcement of the foreign contribution ban. The changes are primarily technical with the exception of the increased criminal penalties.