2025 California Code
Government Code - GOV
TITLE 9 - POLITICAL REFORM
CHAPTER 4 - Campaign Disclosure
ARTICLE 2 - Filing of Campaign Statements
Section 84206.
84206. (a) The commission shall provide by regulation for a short form for filing reports required by this article for candidates or officeholders who receive contributions of less than two thousand dollars ($2,000), and who make expenditures of less than two thousand dollars ($2,000), in a calendar year.
(b) For the purposes of this section, in calculating whether two thousand dollars ($2,000) in expenditures have been made, payments for a filing fee or for a statement of qualification shall not be included if these payments have been made from the candidate’s personal funds.
(c) Every candidate or officeholder who has filed a short form pursuant to subdivision (a), and who thereafter receives contributions or makes expenditures totaling two thousand dollars ($2,000) or more in a calendar year, shall send written notification to the Secretary of State, the local filing officer, and each candidate contending for the same office within 48 hours of receiving or expending a total of two thousand dollars ($2,000). The written notification shall revoke the previously filed short form statement.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 364, Sec. 12. (AB 594) Effective January 1, 2016. Conditionally repealed pursuant to Sec. 78 of Stats. 2025, Ch. 278.)
