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| 2. Committees; corporations; associations. A political | committee, other committee, corporation or association may not make | contributions to a candidate in support of the candidacy of one | person aggregating more than $5,000 in any election. Beginning | January 1, 1999, a A political committee, other committee, | corporation or association may not make contributions to a | candidate, in support of the candidacy of one person aggregating | more than $500 in any election for a gubernatorial candidate or | more than $250 in any election for any other candidate. |
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| | Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §1015, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 384, §2, is | amended to read: |
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| | 8. Political expenditure limitation amounts. Total | expenditures in any election for legislative office by a | candidate who voluntarily agrees to limit campaign expenditures | as provided in subsection 7 are as follows: |
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| A. For State Senator, $25,000; and |
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| B. For State Representative, $5,000.; and |
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| C.__For State Senator or State Representative as a candidate | certified under the Maine Clean Election Act, to the extent | authorized by that Act. |
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| Expenditure limits are per election and may not be carried | forward from one election to another. For calculation and | reporting purposes, the reporting periods established in section | 1017 apply. |
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| | Sec. 4. 21-A MRSA §1020-A, sub-§2, as corrected by RR 1995, c. 1, §10, | is amended to read: |
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| | 2. Campaign finance reports. A campaign finance report is | not timely filed unless a properly signed copy of the report, | substantially conforming to the disclosure requirements of this | subchapter, is received by the commission before 5 p.m. on the | date it is due. Except as provided in subsection 7, the | commission shall determine whether a report satisfies the | requirements for timely filing. The commission may waive the | penalty in whole or in part if the commission determines the | failure to file a timely report was due to mitigating | circumstances. For purposes of this section, "mitigating | circumstances" means: |
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| A. A valid personal emergency such as a personal illness or | death in the immediate family emergency determined by the |
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