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 04/22/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 AB-950 Political Reform Act of 1974: advertisements. (2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/08/2025 09:00 PM

AB950:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 08, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 22, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 950

Introduced by Assembly Member Solache

February 20, 2025

An act to amend Sections 84502, 84503, 84504.2, and 84506.5 of the Government Code, and to repeal Section 4 of Chapter 260 of the Statutes of 2024, relating to the Political Reform Act of 1974. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 950, as amended, Solache.
 Political Reform Act of 1974: advertisements. 

(1) Existing law establishes requirements for the disclosure of information related to political advertisements, including the name of the committee that paid for the advertisement and the names of the top contributors to the committee. For certain video, print, electronic media, or text message advertisements, existing law permits the name of the committee that paid for the advertisement to be shortened, as specified.

 For

This bill would establish the Billboard DISCLOSE Act. For
 purposes of the above provision permitting the name of the committee to be shortened, this bill would clarify that a print advertisement includes a yard sign or a billboard and an electronic media advertisement means a graphic, image, animated graphic, or animated image that the online platform hosting the advertisement allows to link to an internet website paid for by the committee, as specified. For certain advertisements, the bill would permit the names of top contributors to be shortened by using approved abbreviations or leaving out words from the top contributor’s name, as specified. For certain advertisements, the bill would also specify the order in which required disclosures must appear on the advertisement.

(2) For larger printed advertisements such as yard signs and billboards, existing law permits the text of the
 disclosure to be adjusted so that it does not appear on separate horizontal lines, with the names of the top contributors separated by a comma.

This bill would also permit the names of the top contributors to be separated by clearly visible bullet points or by inserting the applicable number (1, 2, or 3) before the names of the 3 largest contributors. The bill would also specify the order in which required disclosures must appear on the advertisement.

(3) Under existing law, an advertisement supporting or opposing a candidate that is paid for by an independent expenditure must include a statement that it was not authorized by a candidate or a committee controlled by a candidate. If the advertisement was authorized or paid for by a candidate for another office, the expenditure must instead include
 a statement that “This advertisement was not authorized or paid for by a candidate for this office or a committee controlled by a candidate for this office.”

This bill would shorten the above statements, respectively, to “Not paid for by a candidate” and “Not paid for by a candidate for this office.”

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.

 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Billboard DISCLOSE Act.

SECTION 1.SEC. 2.

 Section 84502 of the Government Code is amended to read:

84502.

 (a) (1) Any advertisement not described in subdivision (b) of Section 84504.3 that is paid for by a committee pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 82013, other than a political party committee or a candidate controlled committee established for an elective office of the controlling candidate, shall include the words “Ad paid for by” followed by the name of the committee as it appears on the most recent Statement of Organization filed pursuant to Section 84101.

(2) Any advert