To repeal sections 130.031, 130.032 and 130.036, RSMo 1994, and sections 130.011, 130.041, 130.046, 130.053, 130.100, 130.110, 130.120, 130.130, 130.140, 130.150 and 130.160, RSMo Supp. 1996, relating to campaign finance, and to enact in lieu thereof six new sections relating to the same subject.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI, AS FOLLOWS:

     Section A. Sections 130.031, 130.032 and 130.036, RSMo 1994, and sections 130.011, 130.041, 130.046, 130.053, 130.100, 130.110, 130.120, 130.130, 130.140, 130.150 and 130.160, RSMo Supp. 1996, are repealed and six new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 130.011, 130.031, 130.032, 130.036, 130.041 and 130.046, to read as follows:

     130.011. As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the following terms mean:

     (1) "Appropriate officer" or "appropriate officers", the person or persons designated in section 130.026 to receive certain required statements and reports;

     (2) "Ballot measure" or "measure", any proposal submitted or intended to be submitted to qualified voters for their approval or rejection, including any proposal submitted by initiative petition, referendum petition, or by the general assembly or any local governmental body having authority to refer proposals to the voter;

     (3) "Candidate", an individual who seeks nomination or election to public office. The term "candidate" includes an elected officeholder who is the subject of a recall election, an individual who seeks nomination by his political party for election to public office, an individual standing for retention in an election to an office to which he was previously appointed, an individual who seeks nomination or election whether or not the specific elective public office to be sought has been finally determined by such individual at the time he meets the conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and an individual who is a "write-in candidate" as defined in subdivision (28) of this section. A candidate shall be deemed to seek nomination or election when he first:

     (a) Receives contributions or makes expenditures or reserves space or facilities with intent to promote his candidacy for office; or

     (b) Knows or has reason to know that contributions are being received or expenditures are being made or space or facilities are being reserved with the intent to promote his candidacy for office; except that, such individual shall not be deemed a candidate if he files a statement with the appropriate officer within five days after learning of the receipt of contributions, the making of expenditures, or the reservation of space or facilities disavowing the candidacy and stating that he will not accept nomination or take office if elected; provided that, if the election at which such individual is supported as a candidate is to take place within five days after his learning of the above-specified activities, the individual shall file the statement disavowing the candidacy within one day; or

     (c) Announces or files a declaration of candidacy for office;

     (4) "Cash", currency, coin, United States postage stamps, or any negotiable instrument which can be transferred from one person to another person without the signature or endorsement of the transferor;

     (5) "Check", a check drawn on a state or federal bank, or a draft on a negotiable order of withdrawal account in a savings and loan association or a share draft account in a credit union;

     (6) "Closing date", the date through which a statement or report is required to be complete;

     (7) "Committee", a person or any combination of persons, who accepts contributions or makes expenditures for the primary or incidental purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee or for the purpose of contributing funds to another committee:

     (a) "Committee", does not include:

     a. A person or combination of persons, if neither the aggregate of expenditures made nor the aggregate of contributions received during a calendar year exceeds one thousand dollars and if no single contributor has contributed more than two hundred fifty dollars of such aggregate contributions;

     b. An individual, other than a candidate, who accepts no contributions and who deals only with his own funds or property;

     c. A corporation, cooperative association, partnership, proprietorship, or joint venture organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and all expenditures it makes are from its own funds or property obtained in the usual course of business or in any commercial or other transaction and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (12) of this section;

     d. A labor organization organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates, or the qualification, passage, or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and expenditures made by the organization are from its own funds or property received from membership dues or membership fees which were given or solicited for the purpose of supporting the normal and usual activities and functions of the organization and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (12) of this section;

     e. A person who acts as an authorized agent for a committee in soliciting or receiving contributions or in making expenditures or incurring indebtedness on behalf of the committee if such person renders to the committee treasurer an accurate account of each receipt or other transaction in the detail required by the treasurer to comply with all recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this chapter;

     f. Any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its subdivisions or any officer or employee thereof, acting in his official capacity;

     (b) The term "committee" includes, but is not limited to, each of the following committees: campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee and political party committee;

     (8) "Campaign committee", a committee, other than a candidate committee, which shall be formed by an individual or group of individuals to receive contributions or make expenditures and whose sole purpose is to support or oppose the qualification and passage of one or more particular ballot measures in an election or the retention of judges under the nonpartisan court plan and which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the general election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of a measure for which the committee was formed;

     (9) "Candidate committee", a committee which shall be formed by a candidate to receive contributions or make expenditures in behalf of his candidacy and which shall continue in existence for use by an elected candidate or which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election for a candidate who was not elected or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the election, except that no committee retiring debt of a candidate who was not elected shall engage in any other activities in support of the candidate for which the committee was formed. Any candidate for elective office shall have only one candidate committee for the elective office sought, which is controlled directly by the candidate for the purpose of making expenditures. A candidate committee is presumed to be under the control and direction of the candidate unless the candidate files an affidavit with the appropriate officer stating that the committee is acting without control or direction on his part;

     (10) "Continuing committee", a committee of continuing existence which is not formed, controlled or directed by a candidate, and is a committee other than a candidate committee or campaign committee, whose primary or incidental purpose is to receive contributions or make expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters whether or not a particular candidate or candidates or a particular ballot measure or measures to be supported or opposed has been determined at the time the committee is required to file any statement or report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. "Continuing committee" includes, but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters;

     (11) "Connected organization", any organization such as a corporation, a labor organization, a membership organization, a cooperative, or trade or professional association which expends funds or provides services or facilities to establish, administer or maintain a committee or to solicit contributions to a committee from its members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. An organization shall be deemed to be the connected organization if more than fifty percent of the persons making contributions to the committee during the current calendar year are members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of such organization or their spouses;

     (12) "Contribution", a payment, gift, loan, advance, deposit, or donation of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, or for the support of any committee supporting or opposing candidates or ballot measures or for paying debts or obligations of any candidate or committee previously incurred for the above purposes. A contribution of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value. "Contribution" includes, but is not limited to:

     (a) A candidate's own money or property used in support of his candidacy other than expense of his food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office;

     (b) Payment by any person, other than a candidate or committee, to compensate another person for services rendered to that candidate or committee;

     (c) Receipts from the sale of goods and services, including the sale of advertising space in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee and the sale of tickets or political merchandise;

     (d) Receipts from fund-raising events including testimonial affairs;

     (e) Any loan, guarantee of a loan, cancellation or forgiveness of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party, or payment of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party if the loan or debt or other obligation was contracted, used, or intended, in whole or in part, for use in an election campaign or used or intended for the payment of such debts or obligations of a candidate or committee previously incurred, or which was made or received by a committee;

     (f) Funds received by a committee which are transferred to such committee from another committee or other source, except funds received by a candidate committee as a transfer of funds from another candidate committee controlled by the same candidate but such transfer shall be included in the disclosure reports;

     (g) Facilities, office space or equipment supplied by any person to a candidate or committee without charge or at reduced charges, except gratuitous space for meeting purposes which is made available regularly to the public, including other candidates or committees, on an equal basis for similar purposes on the same conditions;

     (h) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization, of the costs of establishing, administering, or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee;

     (i) "Contribution" does not include:

     a. Ordinary home hospitality or services provided without compensation by individuals volunteering their time in support of or in opposition to a candidate, committee or ballot measure, nor the necessary and ordinary personal expenses of such volunteers incidental to the performance of voluntary activities, so long as no compensation is directly or indirectly asked or given;

     b. An offer or tender of a contribution which is expressly and unconditionally rejected and returned to the donor within ten business days after receipt or transmitted to the state treasurer;

     c. Interest earned on deposit of committee funds;

     d. The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021 for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization;

     (13) "County", any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. Louis;

     (14) "Disclosure report", an itemized report of receipts, expenditures and incurred indebtedness which is prepared on forms approved by the Missouri ethics commission and filed at the times and places prescribed;

     (15) "Election", any primary, general or special election held to nominate or elect an individual to public office, to retain or recall an elected officeholder or to submit a ballot measure to the voters, and any caucus or other meeting of a political party or a political party committee at which that party's candidate or candidates for public office are officially selected. A primary election and the succeeding general election shall be considered separate elections;

     (16) "Election cycle", the period of time from general election for an office until the next general election for the same office;

     (17) "Expenditure", a payment, advance, conveyance, deposit, donation or contribution of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee; a payment, or an agreement or promise to pay, money or anything of value, including a candidate's own money or property, for the purchase of goods, services, property, facilities or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee. An expenditure of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value. "Expenditure" includes, but is not limited to:

     (a) Payment by anyone other than a committee for services of another person rendered to such committee;

     (b) The purchase of tickets, goods, services or political merchandise in connection with any testimonial affair or fund-raising event of or for candidates or committees, or the purchase of advertising in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee;

     (c) The transfer of funds by one committee to another committee;

     (d) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization for a committee, of the costs of establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee; but

     (e) "Expenditure" does not include:

     a. Any news story, commentary or editorial which is broadcast or published by any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical without charge to the candidate or to any person supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot measure;

     b. The internal dissemination by any membership organization, proprietorship, labor organization, corporation, association or other entity of information advocating the election or defeat of a candidate or candidates or the passage or defeat of a ballot measure or measures to its directors, officers, members, employees or security holders, provided that the cost incurred is reported pursuant to subsection 2 of section 130.051;

     c. Repayment of a loan, but such repayment must be indicated in required reports;

     d. The rendering of voluntary personal services by an individual of the sort commonly performed by volunteer campaign workers and the payment by such individual of his necessary and ordinary personal expenses incidental to such volunteer activity, provided no compensation is, directly or indirectly, asked or given;

     e. The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021 for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization;

     f. The use of a candidate's own money or property for expense of his personal food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office, if such expense is not reimbursed to the candidate from any source;

     (18) "Fund-raising event", an event such as a dinner, luncheon, reception, coffee, testimonial, rally, auction or similar affair through which contributions are solicited or received by such means as the purchase of tickets, payment of attendance fees, donations for prizes or through the purchase of goods, services or political merchandise;

     (19) "In-kind contribution" or "in-kind expenditure", a contribution or expenditure in a form other than money;

     (20) "Labor organization", any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work;

     (21) "Loan", a transfer of money, property or anything of ascertainable monetary value in exchange for an obligation, conditional or not, to repay in whole or in part and which was contracted, used, or intended for use in an election campaign, or which was made or received by a committee or which was contracted, used, or intended to pay previously incurred campaign debts or obligations of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee;

     (22) "Person", an individual, group of individuals, corporation, partnership, committee, proprietorship, joint venture, any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its political subdivisions, union, labor organization, trade or professional or business association, association, political party or any executive committee thereof, or any other club or organization however constituted or any officer or employee of such entity acting in his official capacity;

     (23) "Political merchandise", goods such as bumper stickers, pins, hats, ties, jewelry, literature, or other items sold or distributed at a fund-raising event or to the general public for publicity or for the purpose of raising funds to be used in supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election or in supporting or opposing the qualification, passage or defeat of a ballot measure;

     (24) "Political party", a political party which has the right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election;

     (25) "Political party committee", a state, district, county, city, or area committee of a political party, which may be organized as a not for profit corporation under Missouri law, and which committee is of continuing existence, and has the primary or incidental purpose of receiving contributions and making expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters on behalf of the political party;

     (26) "Public office" or "office", any state, judicial, county, municipal, school or other district, ward, township, or other political subdivision office or any political party office which is filled by a vote of registered voters;

     (27) "Regular session", includes that period beginning on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January and ending following the first Friday after the second Monday in May;

     (28) "Write-in candidate", an individual whose name is not printed on the ballot but who otherwise meets the definition of "candidate" in subdivision (3) of this section.

     130.031. 1. No contribution of cash in an amount of more than [one hundred] twenty-five dollars shall be made by or accepted from any single contributor for any election.

2. Except for expenditures from a petty cash fund which is established and maintained by withdrawals of funds from the committee's depository account and with records maintained in accordance with the recordkeeping requirements of section 130.036 to account for expenditures made from petty cash, each expenditure of more than fifty dollars, except an in-kind expenditure, shall be made by check drawn on the committee's depository and signed by the committee treasurer. A single expenditure from a petty cash fund shall not exceed fifty dollars, and the aggregate of all expenditures from a petty cash fund during a calendar year shall not exceed the lesser of five thousand dollars or ten percent of all expenditures made by the committee during that calendar year. A check made payable to "cash" shall not be made except to replenish a petty cash fund.

3. No contribution shall be made or accepted and no expenditure shall be made or incurred, directly or indirectly, in a fictitious name, in the name of another person, or by or through another person in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the actual source of the contribution or the actual recipient and purpose of the expenditure. Any person who receives contributions for a committee shall disclose to that committee's treasurer the recipient's own name and address and the name and address of the actual source of each contribution such person has received for that committee. Any person who makes expenditures for a committee shall disclose to that committee's treasurer such person's own name and address, the name and address of each person to whom an expenditure has been made and the amount and purpose of the expenditures he has made for that committee.

4. No anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be made by any person, and no anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be accepted by any candidate or committee. If any anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars is received, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor's identity can be ascertained, and if the contributor's identity cannot be ascertained, the candidate or committee treasurer shall immediately transmit that portion of the contribution which exceeds twenty-five dollars to the state treasurer and it shall escheat to the state.

5. The maximum aggregate amount of anonymous contributions which shall be accepted in any calendar year by any committee shall be the greater of five hundred dollars or one percent of the aggregate amount of all contributions received by that committee in the same calendar year. If any anonymous contribution is received which causes the aggregate total of anonymous contributions to exceed the foregoing limitation, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor's identity can be ascertained, and, if the contributor's identity cannot be ascertained, the committee treasurer shall immediately transmit the anonymous contribution to the state treasurer to escheat to the state.

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 5 of this section, contributions from individuals whose names and addresses cannot be ascertained which are received from a fund-raising activity or event, such as defined in section 130.011, shall not be deemed anonymous contributions, provided the following conditions are met:

(1) There are twenty-five or more contributing participants in the activity or event;

(2) The candidate, committee treasurer or the person responsible for conducting the activity or event makes an announcement that it is illegal for anyone to make or receive a contribution in excess of twenty-five dollars unless the contribution is accompanied by the name and address of the contributor;

(3) The person responsible for conducting the activity or event does not knowingly accept payment from any single person of more than twenty-five dollars unless the name and address of the person making such payment is obtained and recorded pursuant to the recordkeeping requirements of section 130.036;

(4) A statement describing the event shall be prepared by the candidate or the treasurer of the committee for whom the funds were raised or by the person responsible for conducting the activity or event and attached to the disclosure report of contributions and expenditures required by section 130.041. The following information to be listed in the statement is in addition to, not in lieu of, the requirements elsewhere in this chapter relating to the recording and reporting of contributions and expenditures:

(a) The name and mailing address of the person or persons responsible for conducting the event or activity and the name and address of the candidate or committee for whom the funds were raised;

(b) The date on which the event occurred;

(c) The name and address of the location where the event occurred and the approximate number of participants in the event;

(d) A brief description of the type of event and the fund-raising methods used;

(e) The gross receipts from the event and a listing of the expenditures incident to the event;

(f) The total dollar amount of contributions received from the event from participants whose names and addresses were not obtained with such contributions and an explanation of why it was not possible to obtain the names and addresses of such participants;

(g) The total dollar amount of contributions received from contributing participants in the event who are identified by name and address in the records required to be maintained according to the provisions of section 130.036.

7. No candidate or committee in this state shall accept contributions from any out-of-state committee unless the out-of-state committee from whom the contributions are received has filed a statement of organization under the provisions of section 130.021 or has filed the reports required by section 130.051, whichever is applicable to that committee.

8. Any person publishing, circulating, or distributing any printed matter relative to any candidate for public office or any ballot measure shall on the face of the printed matter identify in a clear and conspicuous manner the person who paid for the printed matter with the words "Paid for by" followed by the proper identification of the sponsor as provided by this section. For the purposes of this section, "printed matter" shall be defined to include any pamphlet, circular, handbill, sample ballot, advertisement, including advertisements in any newspaper or other periodical, sign, including signs for display on motor vehicles, or other imprinted or lettered material; [but "printed matter" is defined to exclude materials printed and purchased prior to May 20, 1982, if the candidate or committee can document that delivery took place prior to May 20, 1982;] any sign personally printed and constructed by an individual without compensation from any other person and displayed at that individual's place of residence or on that individual's personal motor vehicle; any items of personal use given away or sold, such as campaign buttons, pins, pens, pencils, book matches, campaign jewelry, or clothing, which is paid for by a candidate or committee which supports a candidate or supports or opposes a ballot measure and which is obvious in its identification with a specific candidate or committee and is reported as required by this chapter; and any news story, commentary, or editorial printed by a regularly published newspaper or other periodical without charge to a candidate, committee or any other person.

(1) In regard to any printed matter paid for by a candidate from the candidate's personal funds, it shall be sufficient identification to print the first and last name by which the candidate is known.

(2) In regard to any printed matter paid for by a committee, it shall be sufficient identification to print the name of the committee as required to be registered by subsection 5 of section 130.021 and the name and title of the committee treasurer who was serving when the printed matter was paid for.

(3) In regard to any printed matter paid for by a corporation or other business entity, labor organization, or any other organization not defined to be a committee by subdivision (7) of section 130.011 and not organized especially for influencing one or more elections, it shall be sufficient identification to print the name of the entity, the name of the principal officer of the entity, by whatever title known, and the mailing address of the entity, or if the entity has no mailing address, the mailing address of the principal officer.

(4) In regard to any printed matter paid for by an individual or individuals, it shall be sufficient identification to print the name of the individual or individuals and the respective mailing address or addresses, except that if more than five individuals join in paying for printed matter it shall be sufficient identification to print the words "For a list of other sponsors contact:" followed by the name and address of one such individual responsible for causing the matter to be printed, and the individual identified shall maintain a record of the names and amounts paid by other individuals and shall make such record available for review upon the request of any person. No person shall accept for publication or printing nor shall such work be completed until the printed matter is properly identified as required by this subsection.

9. Any broadcast station transmitting any matter relative to any candidate for public office or ballot measure as defined by this chapter shall identify the sponsor of such matter as required by federal law.

10. The provisions of subsections 8 and 9 of this section shall not apply to candidates for elective federal office, provided that persons causing matter to be printed or broadcast concerning such candidacies must comply with the requirements of federal law for identification of the sponsor or sponsors.

11. It shall be a violation of this chapter for any person required to be identified as paying for printed matter under subsection 8 of this section or paying for broadcast matter under subsection 9 of this section to refuse to provide the information required or to purposely provide false, misleading, or incomplete information.

[12. In addition to the requirements of subsections 8 and 9 of this section, any printed or broadcast matter described in subsection 8 or 9 of this section which contains allegations regarding the actions, inactions, beliefs, behavior or other aspects of any candidate for office, other than the candidate or candidate committee which issued such printed or broadcast matter, shall contain in addition to the requirements of subsections 8 and 9 of this section, a statement that the information contained in the advertisement has been approved by the candidate on whose behalf the printed or broadcast matter was issued. Such statement shall be in the following form:

"The contents of this advertisement have been approved and authorized by ..... (insert name of candidate) ....., candidate for ..... (insert office)....."

and shall be displayed or broadcast with the "Paid for by" statement required pursuant to subsections 8 and 9 of this section. Any person or committee which violates this subsection shall be subject to the penalties described in this chapter.]

     130.032. 1. In addition to the limitations imposed pursuant to sections 130.031 and 130.052, the amount of contributions made by or accepted from any person in any one election shall not exceed the following:

     (1) To elect an individual to the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor or attorney general, one thousand dollars;

     (2) To elect an individual to the office of state senator, five hundred dollars;

     (3) To elect an individual to the office of state representative, two hundred fifty dollars;

     (4) To elect an individual to any other office, if the population of the electoral district, ward, or other unit according to the latest decennial census is under one hundred thousand, two hundred fifty dollars;

     (5) To elect an individual to any other office, if the population of the electoral district, ward, or other unit according to the latest decennial census is at least one hundred thousand but less than two hundred fifty thousand, five hundred dollars; and

     (6) To elect an individual to any other office, if the population of the electoral district, ward, or other unit according to the latest decennial census is at least two hundred fifty thousand, one thousand dollars.

     2. For purposes of this subsection "base year amount" shall be the contribution limits prescribed in this section on January 1, 1995. Such limits shall be increased on the first day of January in each even-numbered year by multiplying the base year amount by the cumulative consumer price index, as defined in section 104.010, RSMo, and rounded to the nearest twenty-five-dollar amount, for all years since January 1, 1995.

     3. Candidate committees, campaign committee and continuing committees, other than those continuing committees which are political party committees as defined in section 115.603, RSMo, shall be subject to the limits prescribed in subsection 1 of this section. The provisions of this subsection shall not limit the amount of contributions which may be accumulated by a candidate committee and used for expenditures to further the nomination or election of the candidate who controls such candidate committee, except as provided in section 130.052.

     4. [No contribution shall be accepted by a person serving as a statewide elected official or serving as a member of the general assembly, or by a candidate for any statewide elected office or candidate for state senator or state representative, or by a committee acting on behalf of such an individual, during any regular session of the general assembly, except that candidates for a special election to fill a vacancy in any such office may accept contributions to be used in conjunction with that special election during a regular session of the general assembly.

     5.] Except as limited by this subsection, the amount of cash contributions, and a separate amount for the amount of in-kind contributions, made by or accepted from a political party committee in any one election shall not exceed the following:

     (1) To elect an individual to the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor or attorney general, ten thousand dollars;

     (2) To elect an individual to the office of state senator, five thousand dollars;

     (3) To elect an individual to the office of state representative, two thousand five hundred dollars; and

     (4) To elect an individual to any other office of an electoral district, ward or unit, ten times the allowable contribution limit for the office sought. The amount of contributions which may be made by or accepted from a political party committee in the primary election to elect any candidate who is unopposed in such primary shall be fifty percent of the amount of the allowable contributions as determined in this subsection.

     [6.] 5. Contributions from persons under fourteen years of age shall be considered made by the parents or guardians of such person and shall be attributed toward any contribution limits prescribed in this chapter. Where the contributor under fourteen years of age has two custodial parents or guardians, fifty percent of the contribution shall be attributed to each parent or guardian, and where such contributor has one custodial parent or guardian, all such contributions shall be attributed to the custodial parent or guardian.

     [7.] 6. Contributions received and expenditures made prior to January 1, 1995, shall be reported as a separate account and pursuant to the laws in effect at the time such contributions are received or expenditures made. Contributions received and expenditures made after January 1, 1995, shall be reported as a separate account from the aforementioned account and pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The account reported pursuant to the prior law shall be retained as a separate account and any remaining funds in such account may be used pursuant to this chapter and section 130.034.

     [8.] 7. Any committee which accepts or gives contributions other than those allowed shall be subject to a surcharge of one thousand dollars plus an amount equal to the contribution per nonallowable contribution, to be paid to the ethics commission and which shall be transferred to the director of revenue, upon notification of such nonallowable contribution by the ethics commission, and after the candidate has had ten business days to return the contribution to the contributor. The candidate and any other person owing a surcharge shall be personally liable for the payment of the surcharge and such surcharge shall constitute a debt to the state enforceable under, but not limited to, the provisions of chapter 143, RSMo.

     130.036. 1. The treasurer of a committee, who may be a candidate who has elected to serve as his own candidate committee and committee treasurer, shall maintain accurate records and accounts on a current basis. The records and accounts shall be maintained in accordance with accepted normal bookkeeping procedures and shall contain the bills, receipts, deposit records, canceled checks and other detailed information necessary to prepare and substantiate any statement or report required to be filed pursuant to this chapter. Every person who acts as an agent for a committee in receiving contributions, making expenditures or incurring indebtedness for the committee shall, on request of that committee's treasurer, but in any event within five days after any such action, render to the committee treasurer a detailed account thereof, including names, addresses, dates, exact amounts and any other details required by the treasurer to comply with this chapter. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 4 of section 130.021 prohibiting commingling of funds, an individual, trade or professional association, business entity, or labor organization which acts as an agent for a committee in receiving contributions may deposit contributions received on behalf of the committee to the agent's account within a financial institution within this state, for purposes of facilitating transmittal of the contributions to the committee treasurer. Such contributions shall not be held in the agent's account for more than five days after the date the contribution was received by the agent, and shall not be transferred to the account of any other agent or person, other than the committee treasurer.

     2. Unless a contribution is rejected by the candidate or committee and returned to the donor or transmitted to the state treasurer within five business days after its receipt, it shall be considered received and accepted on the date received, notwithstanding the fact that it was not deposited by the closing date of a reporting period.

     3. [Notwithstanding the provisions of section 130.041 that only contributors of more than one hundred dollars shall be reported by name and address,] The committee's records shall contain a listing of each contribution received by the committee, including those accepted and those which are rejected and either returned to the donor or transmitted to the state treasurer. Each contribution, regardless of the amount, shall be recorded by date received, name and address of the contributor and the amount of the contribution, except that any contributions from unidentifiable persons which are received through fund-raising activities and events as permitted in subsection 6 of section 130.031 shall be recorded to show the dates and amounts of all such contributions received together with information contained in statements required by subsection 6 of section 130.031. The procedure for recording contributions shall be of a type which enables the committee treasurer to maintain a continuing total of all contributions received from any one contributor.

     4. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 130.041 that certain expenditures need not be identified in reports by name and address of the payee, the committee's records shall include a listing of each expenditure made and each contract, promise or agreement to make an expenditure, showing the date and amount of each transaction, the name and address of the person to whom the expenditure was made or promised, and the purpose of each expenditure made or promised.

     5. In the case of a committee which makes expenditures for both the support or opposition of any candidate and the passage or defeat of a ballot measure, the committee treasurer shall maintain records segregated according to each candidate or measure for which the expenditures were made.

     6. Records shall indicate which transactions, either contributions received or expenditures made, were cash transactions or in-kind transactions.

     7. Any candidate who, according to section 130.016, is exempt from the requirements to form a committee shall maintain records of each contribution received or expenditure made in support of his candidacy. Any other person or combination of persons who, although not deemed to be a committee according to the definition of the term "committee" in section 130.011, accepts contributions or makes expenditures[, other than direct contributions from the person's own funds,] for the purpose of supporting or opposing the election or defeat of any candidate or for the purpose of supporting or opposing the qualification[s], passage or defeat of any ballot measure shall maintain records of each contribution received or expenditure made. The records shall include name, address and amount pertaining to each contribution received or expenditure made and any bills, receipts, canceled checks or other documents relating to each transaction.

     8. All records and accounts of receipts and expenditures shall be preserved for at least three years after the date of the election to which the records pertain. Records and accounts regarding supplemental disclosure reports or reports not required pursuant to an election shall be preserved for at least three years after the date of the report to which the records pertain. Such records shall be available for inspection by the [campaign finance review board] Missouri ethics commission and its duly authorized representatives.

     130.041. 1. Except as provided in subsection 5 of section 130.016, the treasurer of every committee, excluding candidate committees when the candidate supported by the committee is not up for election and contributions made by the committee aggregate one thousand dollars or less per election, which is required to file a statement of organization, including a candidate who has elected to serve as the person's own candidate committee, shall file a legibly printed or typed disclosure report of receipts and expenditures for any election for which the committee makes expenditures or contributions or for which the committee receives contributions with the intent to make expenditures or contributions. The reports shall be filed with the appropriate officer designated in section 130.026 at the times and for the periods prescribed in section 130.046. Except as provided in section 130.051, each report shall set forth:

     (1) The full name, as required in the statement of organization pursuant to subsection 5 of section 130.021, and mailing address of the committee filing the report and the full name, mailing address and telephone number of the committee's treasurer and deputy treasurer if the committee has named a deputy treasurer;

     (2) The amount of money, including cash on hand at the beginning of the reporting period;

     (3) Receipts for the period, including:

     (a) Total amount of all [monetary] contributions received [which can be identified in the committee's records] by name [and], address and employer or occupation, if self-employed, of each contributor contributing in excess of twenty-five dollars. In addition, the candidate committee shall make a reasonable effort to obtain [and report the business or occupation of the contributor, and] a description of any contractual relationship over five hundred dollars between the contributor and the state if the candidate is seeking election to a state office or between the contributor and [any] the political subdivision of the state if the candidate is seeking election to [another] a political subdivision of the state;

     (b) Total amount of all anonymous contributions accepted;

     (c) Total amount of all monetary contributions received through fund-raising events or activities from participants whose names and addresses were not obtained with such contributions, with an attached statement or copy of the statement describing each fund-raising event as required in subsection 6 of section 130.031;

     (d) Total dollar value of all in-kind contributions received;

     (e) [A separate listing by name and address of each person from whom the committee received one or more contributions, in money or any other thing of value, aggregating more than one hundred dollars, together with the date and amount of each such contribution;

     (f)] A listing of each loan received by name and address of the lender and date and amount of the loan. For each loan of more than one hundred dollars, a separate statement shall be attached setting forth the name and address of the lender and each person liable directly, indirectly or contingently, and the date, amount and terms of the loan;

     (4) Expenditures for the period, including:

     (a) The total dollar amount of expenditures made by check drawn on the committee's depository;

     (b) The total dollar amount of expenditures made in cash;

     (c) The total dollar value of all in-kind expenditures made;

     (d) The full name and mailing address of each person to whom an expenditure of money or any other thing of value in the amount of more than one hundred dollars has been made or contracted for, together with the date, amount and purpose of each expenditure. Expenditures of one hundred dollars or less may be grouped and listed by categories of expenditure showing the total dollar amount of expenditures in each category, except that the report shall contain an itemized listing of each payment made to campaign workers by name, address, date, amount and purpose of each payment and the aggregate amount paid to each such worker;

     (e) A list of each loan made, by name and mailing address of the person receiving the loan, together with the amount, terms and date;

     (5) The total amount of cash on hand as of the closing date of the reporting period covered, including amounts in depository accounts and in petty cash fund;

     (6) The total amount of outstanding indebtedness as of the closing date of reporting period covered;

     (7) The amount of expenditures for or against a candidate or ballot measure during the period covered and the cumulative amount of expenditures for or against that candidate or ballot measure, with each candidate being listed by name, mailing address and office sought. For the purpose of disclosure reports, expenditures made in support of more than one candidate or ballot measure or both shall be apportioned reasonably among the candidates or ballot measure or both. In apportioning expenditures to each candidate or ballot measure, political party committees and continuing committees need not include expenditures for maintaining a permanent office, such as expenditures for salaries of regular staff, office facilities and equipment or other expenditures not designed to support or oppose any particular candidates or ballot measures; however, all such expenditures shall be listed in accordance with subdivision (4) of this subsection;

     (8) A separate listing by full name and address of any committee including a candidate committee controlled by the same candidate for which a transfer of funds or a contribution in any amount has been made during the reporting period, together with the date and amount of each such transfer or contribution;

     (9) A separate listing by full name and address of any committee, including a candidate committee controlled by the same candidate from which a transfer of funds or a contribution in any amount has been received during the reporting period, together with the date and amount of each such transfer or contribution;

     (10) Each committee that receives a contribution which is restricted or designated in whole or in part by the contributor for transfer to a particular candidate, committee or other person shall include a statement of the name and address of that contributor in the next disclosure report required to be filed after receipt of such contribution, together with the date and amount of any such contribution which was so restricted or designated by that contributor, together with the name of the particular candidate, committee or other person to whom such contribution was so designated or restricted by that contributor and the date and amount of such contribution.

     2. For the purpose of this section and any other section in this chapter except section 130.051 which requires a listing of each contributor who has contributed a specified amount, the aggregate amount shall be computed by adding all contributions received from any one person during the following periods:

     (1) In the case of a candidate committee, the period shall begin on the date on which the candidate became a candidate according to the definition of the term "candidate" in section 130.011 and end on the later of the closing date of the reporting period for the report or statement required or upon the election for which the contribution was made;

     (2) In the case of a campaign committee, the period shall begin on the date the committee received its first contribution and end on the closing date for the period for which the report or statement is required;

     (3) In the case of a political party committee or a continuing committee, the period shall begin on the first day of January of the year in which the report or statement is being filed and end on the closing date for the period for which the report or statement is required; except, if the report or statement is required to be filed prior to the first day of July in any given year, the period shall begin on the first day of July of the preceding year.

     3. The disclosure report shall be signed and attested by the committee treasurer and by the candidate in case of a candidate committee.

      4. The words "consulting or consulting services, fees, or expenses", or similar words, shall not be used to describe the purpose of a payment as required in this section. The reporting of any payment to such an independent contractor shall be on a form supplied by the appropriate officer, established by the ethics commission and shall include identification of the specific service or services provided including, but not limited to, public opinion polling, research on issues or opposition background, print or broadcast media production, print or broadcast media purchase, computer programming or data entry, direct mail production, postage, rent, utilities, phone solicitation, or fund raising, and the dollar amount prorated for each service.

     130.046. 1. The disclosure reports required by section 130.041, for committees, including political party committees, but other than continuing committees, shall be filed at the following times and for the following periods:

     (1) [Not later than the fortieth day before an election for the period closing on the forty-fifth day before election; and

     (2)] Not later than the seventh day before an election for the period closing on the twelfth day before the election; and

     [(3)] (2) Not later than the thirtieth day after an election for a period closing on the twenty-fifth day after the election; except that, a successful candidate who takes office prior to the twenty-fifth day after election shall have complied with the reporting requirement of this subdivision if a disclosure report is filed by such candidate and any candidate committee under the candidate's control before such candidate takes office, and such report shall be for the period closing on the day before taking office; [and]

     [(4)] (3) Not later than the twentieth day of April for the period ending the thirty-first of March for a candidate who has filed or a committee which has been formed after the thirty-first day of December of the previous year[.]; and

     (4) Not later than the fifteenth day following the close of each calendar quarter.

     2. In the case of a ballot measure to be qualified to be on the ballot by initiative petition or referendum petition, or a recall petition seeking to remove an incumbent from office, disclosure reports relating to the time for filing such petitions shall be made as follows:

     (1) In addition to the disclosure reports required to be filed before and after elections in accordance with subdivisions (1), (2)[, (3) and (4)] and (3) of subsection 1 of this section, the treasurer of a committee, other than a continuing committee, supporting or opposing a petition effort to qualify a measure to appear on the ballot or to remove an incumbent from office shall file an initial disclosure report fifteen days after the committee begins the process of raising or spending money. After such initial report, the committee shall file quarterly disclosure reports until such time as the reports required under subdivisions (1), (2)[, (3) and (4)] and (3) of subsection 1 of this section are to be filed. In addition the committee shall file a second disclosure report no later than the fifteenth day after the deadline date for submitting such petitions. The period covered in the initial report shall begin on the day the committee first accepted contributions or made expenditures to support or oppose the petition effort for qualification of the measure and shall close on the fifth day prior to the date of the report;

     (2) If the measure has qualified to be on the ballot in an election, and if a committee subject to the requirements of subdivision (1) of this subsection is also required to file a preelection disclosure report for that election any time within thirty days after the date on which disclosure reports are required to be filed in accordance with subdivision (1) of this subsection, the treasurer of such committee shall not be required to file the report required by subdivision (1) of this subsection, but shall include in the committee's preelection report all information which would otherwise have been required by subdivision (1) of this subsection.

     3. The treasurer of a continuing committee shall file [quarterly] disclosure reports pursuant to this subsection, except for any calendar quarter in which the contributions received by the continuing committee or the expenditures or contributions made by the continuing committee do not exceed one thousand dollars. The reporting dates and periods covered for such quarterly reports shall not be later than the fifteenth day of January, April, July and October for periods closing on the thirty-first day of December, the thirty-first day of March, the thirtieth day of June and the thirtieth day of September. A continuing committee shall submit additional reports if it makes expenditures, other than contributions to a committee, if the expenditure is five hundred dollars or more and if the expenditure is intended or may affect the election of any candidate or any ballot measure, within the reporting period at the following times for the following periods:

     (1) Not later than the seventh day before an election for the period closing on the twelfth day before the election;

     (2) Not later than forty-eight hours after any expenditure of five hundred dollars or more made after the twelfth day before the election; and

     (3) Not later than the thirtieth day after an election for a period closing on the twenty-fifth day after the election.

Each report by such continuing committees shall be cumulative from the date of the last report. In the case of the continuing committee's first report, the report shall be cumulative from the date of the continuing committee's organization.

     4. The reports required to be filed not later than the seventh day before an election and not later than the thirtieth day after an election and any subsequently required reports shall be cumulative so as to reflect the total receipts and disbursements of the reporting committee for the entire election campaign in question. The period covered by each disclosure report shall begin on the day after the closing date of the most recent disclosure report filed and end on the closing date for the period covered. If the committee has not previously filed a disclosure report, the period covered begins on the date the committee was formed, except that in the case of a candidate committee, the period covered begins on the date the candidate became a candidate according to the definition of the term "candidate" in section 130.011.

     5. Other provisions of this chapter to the contrary:

     (1) Certain disclosure reports pertaining to any candidate who receives nomination in a primary election and thereby seeks election in the immediately succeeding general election shall not be required in the following cases:

     (a) If there are less than fifty days between a primary election and the immediately succeeding general election, the disclosure report required to be filed not later than the fortieth day before the general election need not be filed, provided that any other report required to be filed prior to the primary election and all other reports required to be filed not later than the seventh day before the general election are filed no later than the final dates for filing such reports;

     (b) If there are less than eighty-five days between a primary election and the immediately succeeding general election, the disclosure report required to be filed not later than the thirtieth day after the primary election need not be filed, provided that any report required to be filed prior to the primary election and any other report required to be filed prior to the general election are filed no later than the final dates for filing such reports; and

     (2) No disclosure report need be filed for any reporting period if during that reporting period the committee, including a candidate committee, has neither received contributions aggregating more than one thousand dollars nor made expenditures aggregating more than one thousand dollars and has not received contributions aggregating more than two hundred fifty dollars from any single contributor [and if the committee's treasurer files under oath a statement with the appropriate officer that neither the aggregate of contributions received by the committee during that reporting period nor the aggregate expenditures made by the committee during that reporting period exceeded one thousand dollars and the committee did not receive contributions from any one person aggregating more than two hundred fifty dollars during that reporting period]. Any contributions received or expenditures made which are not reported because this statement is filed in lieu of a disclosure report must be included in the next disclosure report filed by the committee. [This statement shall not be filed in lieu of] A report shall be filed for two or more consecutive disclosure [reports] quarters if either the contributions received or expenditures made in the aggregate during those reporting periods exceed one thousand dollars and [shall not be filed in lieu of the report required to] a report shall be filed not later than the thirtieth day after an election if that report would show a deficit of more than one thousand dollars.

     6. (1) If the disclosure report required to be filed by a committee not later than the thirtieth day after an election shows a deficit of unpaid loans and other outstanding obligations in excess of five thousand dollars, semiannual supplemental disclosure reports shall be filed with the appropriate officer for each succeeding semiannual period until the deficit is reported in a disclosure report as being reduced to five thousand dollars or less, except that a supplemental semiannual report shall not be required for any semiannual period which includes the closing date for the reporting period covered in any regular disclosure report which the committee is required to file in connection with an election. The reporting dates and periods covered for semiannual reports shall be not later than the fifteenth day of January and July for periods closing on the thirty-first day of December and the thirtieth day of June.

     (2) Committees required to file reports under subsection 2 or 3 of this section, which are not otherwise required to file disclosure reports for an election, shall file semiannual reports as required by this subsection if their last required disclosure report shows a total of unpaid loans and other outstanding obligations in excess of five thousand dollars.

     7. (1) If a committee, including a candidate committee, during any calendar year, receives contributions or makes expenditures aggregating more than one thousand dollars or receives an aggregate of more than two hundred fifty dollars from any one person, an additional disclosure report shall be filed not later than the fifteenth day of January for the period closing on the preceding thirty-first day of December, except that such disclosure report shall not be required if, within sixty days prior to or following the thirty-first day of December, the committee is required to file any other disclosure report.

     (2) Committees required to file reports under subsection 2 of this section, which are not otherwise required to file reports for an election, shall file annual supplemental reports if, after filing the report required by subsection 2 of this section, the committee has additional financial activities during a calendar year in excess of the dollar amounts established by this subsection.

     8. In the case of a committee which disbands and is required to file a termination statement under the provisions of section 130.021 with the appropriate officer not later than the tenth day after the committee was dissolved, the committee treasurer shall attach to the termination statement a complete disclosure report for the period closing on the date of dissolution. A committee shall not utilize the provisions of subsection 8 of section 130.021 or the provisions of this subsection to circumvent or otherwise avoid the reporting requirements of subsection 6 or 7 of this section.

     9. Disclosure reports shall be filed with the appropriate officer not later than 5:00 p.m. prevailing local time of the day designated for the filing of the report, and a report postmarked not later than midnight of the day previous to the day designated for filing the report shall be deemed to have been filed in a timely manner. The appropriate officer may establish a policy whereby disclosure reports may be filed by facsimile transmission.

     [130.053. 1. Each candidate for office who has filed an affidavit agreeing to comply with the expenditure limits shall be subject to a surcharge on all expenditures made in any election which exceed the expenditure limits established in section 130.052. The expenditure reports required by this chapter shall be examined by the ethics commission, and where expenditures are made which exceed the limits, the commission shall notify the candidate of the excess amount. The candidate shall, within thirty days of receiving such notice, remit to the ethics commission the following amounts:

     (1) Twenty-five percent of the excess expenditures if the expenditures are between zero and five percent over the prescribed limit;

     (2) Fifty percent of the excess expenditures if the expenditures are more than five but not greater than ten percent over the prescribed limit;

     (3) Seventy-five percent of the excess expenditures if the expenditures are more than ten but not greater than fifteen percent over the prescribed limit; and

     (4) One hundred percent of the excess expenditures if the expenditures are greater than fifteen percent of the prescribed limit.

     2. The commission shall transmit all proceeds received pursuant to this section to the director of revenue for deposit in the general revenue fund of the state treasury. The commission shall send a receipt to each candidate which remits payment of surcharges pursuant to this section.

     3. No candidate shall take office until payment is made of the surcharges. Any candidate and any other person owing a surcharge shall be personally liable for the payment of the surcharge. The commission shall pursue all necessary means to collect the debt from the candidate or any other person liable. The debt shall constitute a debt owed to the state and be enforceable as provided by law, including but not limited to chapter 143, RSMo.]

     [130.100. Contribution limits: There shall be the following limitations on campaign contributions:

     (1) No person or committee shall make a contribution to any one candidate or candidate committee with an aggregate value in excess of:

     (a) $100 per election cycle per candidate in districts with fewer than 100,000 residents;

     (2) $200 per election cycle per candidate, other than statewide candidates, in districts of 100,000 or more residents. For purposes of this section "statewide candidates" refers to those candidates seeking election to the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Auditor, Treasurer and Secretary of State.

     (3) $300 per election cycle per statewide candidate.

     (2) No person, entity or committee shall make a contribution to any other persons, entities or committees for the purpose of contributing to a specific candidate which when added together or when added together with contributions made directly to the candidate or to the candidate's committee, will have an aggregate value in excess of the limits stated in section 1.

     (3) No candidate or candidate committee shall solicit or accept any contribution with an aggregate value in excess of the limits stated in this section.

     (4) For purposes of this section, the term "candidate" shall include the candidate, the candidate's treasurer, and the candidate's committee and any contribution to the candidate's treasurer or candidate committee shall be deemed a contribution to the candidate.]

     [130.110. Limitations on Cash Contributions, Anonymous Contributions:

     (1) No contribution in cash in an amount in excess of $25 shall be made or accepted from any single contributor for any election;

     (2) Candidates and candidate committees may not accept contributions of cash that, in the aggregate, are in excess of $25 per person per election cycle;

     (3) No anonymous contribution in excess of $25 shall be made by any person, and no anonymous contributions in excess of $25 shall be accepted by any candidate or committee. If any anonymous contribution in excess of $25 is received, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor if his or her identity can be ascertained, and if the contributor's identity cannot be ascertained, the candidate or the committee treasurer shall immediately transmit that portion of the contribution which exceeds $25 to the state treasurer and it shall escheat to the state.]

     [130.120. Disclosure of Contributor Information.

     (1) A separate listing by name, address, employer or occupation if self-employed, of each person from whom the committee received one or more contributions, in money or other things of value, which in the aggregate total in excess of $25, together with the date and amount of each such contribution. No candidate or candidate committee shall accept any contribution without such information, except as provided in subsection 6 of Section 130.031.]

     [130.130. Excess Campaign Contributions: Within ninety days of the election to fill the office for which the candidate has filed or declared, said candidate and that candidate's campaign committee shall either

     (a) Turn over to the state of Missouri for the benefit of the Missouri Ethics Commission, or

     (b) Return to those persons reported as contributors to the candidate's campaign, any balance of campaign funds in excess of expenses incurred for the campaign, except for an amount no greater than ten times the individual contribution limit set forth above for that particular office.]

     [130.140. Commission on Fair Elections Established

     (1) There shall be established a bipartisan Commission on Fair Elections, consisting of nine members including representatives of public interest groups, appointed by the Governor. The Commission shall hold public hearings, develop a proposal for fair funding of public elections and submit its report of findings and recommendations to the Governor and Legislature by the end of September, 1995. The Commission's report may also contain a recommendation for a campaign finance reform proposal to be placed on the 1996 general elections ballot.

     (2) The Commission shall consider, among other things:

     a) How to prevent the spending of large amounts of personal funds in public elections;

     b) How to reduce the escalating costs of public elections;

     c) How to prevent the bundling of contributions to candidates and their committees;

     d) How to reduce the advantage of incumbency; and

     e) How to eliminate the influence of private money in public elections.]

     [130.150. Complaints Concerning Violations

     (1) Any person may file a complaint alleging violations of the contribution limits set forth above with the Missouri Ethics Commission which complaint shall be acted upon promptly by the commission in the same manner and with the same effect as other complaints over which the commission has jurisdiction.

     (2) Instead of filing a complaint with the Missouri Ethics Commission, any person may file a civil action in summary process in the circuit court for the circuit in which the alleged violation occurred, against the alleged violator or violators, seeking a forfeiture to the General Revenue of the State of any amount of contributions in excess of the limits set forth above.]

     [130.160. Severability.

     If any provision of this measure is held invalid or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications, and to this and the provisions of this measure are declared severable.]