(a) In addition to other reporting required under this article, any member, or any candidate committee for a member of the Legislature who is a candidate for legislative office, who has a fund-raising event while the Legislature is in session, shall disclose the existence of the event and the receipt of all contributions, including the source and amounts, within five business days after the fund-raising event. e (b) The reporting requirements under this section also apply to former candidates or candidate committees for legislative office who are still holding any legislative office and who use a fund-raising event to retire or pay-off debt of a campauign account while the Legislature is in session. (c) The reporting requirements of this section do not relieve a candidate or candidate's committee from reporting contributions received and disclosed in conformity with this section from reporting them as required by the regular reporting requirements as contained in section five of this article. l (d) The Secretary of State shall prepare a form for disclosure of these contributions and publish the information on the Secretary oif State's website within forty-eight hours of the Secretary of State receiving the comgpleted form: Provided, That as an alternative, the Secretary of State is authorized to establish a means for electronic filing and disclosure. (e) Pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code, the Secretary of State may propose rules and emergency rules for legislative approval relating to procedures and policies consistent with this section.
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