Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §1053, sub-§§6 and 7, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, are amended to read:

6. Statement of support or opposition. A statement indicating the positions of the committee, support or opposition, with respect to a candidate, political committee, referendum, initiated petition or campaign, if known at the time of registration. If a committee has no position on a candidate, campaign or issue at the time of registration, the committee must inform the commission as soon as the committee knows this information; and

7. Contributions to committee. The names and mailing addresses of contributors who donate in excess of $50 each year to the committee with amount or value of each contribution at the time of registration. Any person who makes contributions on an installment basis, the total of which exceeds $50 in the calendar year, is considered a contributor to be identified under this subsection.; and

Sec. 2. 21-A MRSA §1053, sub-§8 is enacted to read:

8.__Changes in registration information.__Changes in the registration information required under this section.__Changes must be reported to the commission in the form of an amended registration within 10 business days of the change.

Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §1054, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, is repealed.

Sec. 4. 21-A MRSA §1055, as amended by PL 1997, c. 436, §119, is further amended to read:

§1055. Publication or distribution of statements

When a political action committee makes an expenditure to finance a communication expressly advocating the initiation, promotion election or defeat of a question or candidate through broadcasting stations, newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertising facilities, direct mails and other similar types of general public political advertising and through flyers, handbills, bumper stickers and other nonperiodical publications, the communication must clearly and conspicuously state the name and address of the political action committee that authorized, made or financed the expenditure for the communication and that the communication has been authorized by the political action committee.