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 01/05/26 - Amended Senate
 03/25/25 - Amended Senate
 02/14/25 - Introduced

 SB-401 Political Reform Act of 1974: filing deadlines: emergency situations.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/01/2026 09:00 PM

SB401:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 01, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 January 05, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 25, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 401

Introduced by Senator Hurtado

February 14, 2025

An act to add Section 91013.1 to the Government Code, relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 401, as amended, Hurtado.
 Political Reform Act of 1974: filing deadlines: emergency situations.

Under the Political Reform Act of 1974, various individuals and entities, including candidates, committees that support candidates and ballot measures, lobbyists, slate mailer organizations, and public officials, are required to periodically file certain statements and reports that disclose their financial activities. When an original statement or report is filed after the deadline for its filing under the act, the person responsible for making the filing is subject to a late filing penalty of $10 per day, as specified, in addition to any other penalties or remedies under the act.

This bill would authorize the Fair Political Practices Commission to extend any filing deadline established by the act
 act, by no more than 60 days, for individuals that live in an area impacted by an emergency situation.
 situation if the emergency situation is reasonably likely to affect the individual’s ability to timely file. The bill would prohibit the commission from extending a deadline under these provisions during the 90 days before an election. The bill would define emergency situation to mean an emergency proclaimed by the Governor or a local governing body pursuant to a specified law.

The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act’s purposes upon a 2/3 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements.

This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 2/3 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 91013.1 is added to the Government Code, to read:

91013.1.

 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the commission may extend any filing deadline established by this title title, except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), for individuals that live in an area impacted by an emergency situation. situation if the emergency situation is reasonably likely to affect the individual’s ability to timely file.

(b) A filing extension granted by the commission shall not exceed 60 days from the original filing deadline.

(c) This section does not authorize the commission to extend the filing deadline for a campaign statement or report during the 90 days before an election.

 (b)

(d) For purposes of this section, “emergency situation” means an emergency proclaimed by the Governor or a local governing body pursuant to Section 8625 or Section 8630 of the California Emergency Services Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550) of Division 1 of Title
 2).

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that this bill furthers the purposes of the Political Reform Act of 1974 within the meaning of subdivision (a) of Section 81012 of the Government Code.