Revises the Louisiana Campaign Finance Disclosure Act (CFDA); creates reporting requirements for any person, including a political committee, who receives expenditures related to recalls and ballot propositions, and raises reporting threshold from $200 to $5,000 for such contributions; subjects “political committees” and “committees” to reporting requirements, and excludes groups that are not organized for the primary purpose of supporting or opposing candidates, propositions, or recalls of a public officer; defines “committee” to exclude entities that only use general revenues to support or oppose candidates or recalls, and do not raise funds for this purpose; excludes independent expenditure-only committees, leadership committees and principal campaign committees from the definition of “political committee”; requires persons other than political committees and committees to report certain campaign expenditures, and increases reporting thresholds; requires these “other persons” to report expenditures totaling more than $1,000 and expressly supporting or opposing a candidate’s election or recall, or a ballot proposition; requires “other persons” to report certain election-related communications; only requires “other persons” to report on paid broadcast advertising, mass mailings and phone banks that send more than 500 identical or substantially similar messages in a 30-day period, and paid digital ads with the name or image of the candidate, made within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of any other election; provides that mere communication is not a reportable expenditure when a membership organization communicates with its employees, members, or stockholders, and the organization is not primarily organized for partisan political purposes, and when it comes from a church, unless it expressly advocates for or against a specific candidate; provides that a church shall not be required to disclose the identities or donations of its members; allows “other persons required to file reports” to receive anonymous donations without reporting them, and without the donations reverting to the state; specifies that contribution limits only apply to contributions from a political committee or leadership committee supporting or opposing a candidate for certain offices. UPDATE - AMENDED - bars nonprofits from election spending if they have received more than $100,000 in contributions or more than 20% of their total contributions from a foreign national in the current or prior calendar year.
State Name
Louisiana
Bill #
H.B.693
Year Enacted
Enacted
Status
Enacted
Category
5. Nonpartisanship and Civic Engagement
Subcategory
Political Donations; Nonpartisanship
Status Text
Enacted
Year Proposed
2025
State Taxonomy
Bill Page
https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/BillInfo.aspx?s=25RS&b=HB693