{"id":643,"date":"2015-01-14T16:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T16:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdc.wastateleg.org\/billig\/?p=643"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:18:04","slug":"billig-introduces-campaign-finance-transparency-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/billigarchive\/2015\/01\/14\/billig-introduces-campaign-finance-transparency-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Billig introduces campaign finance transparency legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation introduced today by Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane, would bring increased transparency and accountability to reducing the prevalence of dark money in Washington\u2019s campaign finance system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/dlr\/billsummary\/default.aspx?year=2015&amp;bill=5153\">SB 5153<\/a> would require any organization participating significantly in Washington political campaigns to follow the disclosure requirements for political action committees regardless of their non-profit status.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/dlr\/billsummary\/default.aspx?year=2015&amp;bill=5153\">SB 5153<\/a> has a bipartisan list of co-sponsors, including Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, and Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether you\u2019re a Republican, a Democrat or an independent, the people of this state count on free and fair elections when making their voting decisions,\u201d said Billig. \u201cAs more and more money gets spent in political campaigns in new and different ways, we need to ensure that our campaign finance standards keep up and provide the disclosure and transparency that voters count on and our democracy depends on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The limits of Washington\u2019s campaign finance disclosure laws have been made clear in the past two years. In 2013, political committees on both sides of the aisle used their non-profit status to avoid disclosure of millions of dollars in donations. The Grocery Manufacturers\u2019 Association, for example, avoided disclosure for donors after spending more than $11 million to fund a committee opposed to Initiative 522. It was only after the discovery of a specific fundraising e-mail that the attorney general was able to require disclosure. Also in 2013, Working Washington \u2014 a registered nonprofit \u2014 raised more than $250,000 in support of the SeaTac minimum wage initiative but did not release the names of its donors.<\/p>\n<p>The issue returned to Washington in 2014, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2014\/10\/28\/3395405_in-this-election-its-republicans.html?rh=1\">an independent organization spending money in a legislative election<\/a> was able to use its non-profit status to avoid disclosing its donors. <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/dlr\/billsummary\/default.aspx?year=2015&amp;bill=5153\">SB 5153<\/a> would have applied to all of these cases and required timely disclosure of donors.<\/p>\n<p>A bill largely similar to this current proposal, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/dlr\/billsummary\/default.aspx?year=2013&amp;bill=6098\">SB 6098<\/a>, was introduced in 2014 and received support from newspapers across the state including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2014\/jan\/07\/editorial-andy-billigs-plan-to-make-caign\/\">Spokesman-Review<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/editorials\/2024978930_editcampaignfinance07xml.html\">Seattle Times<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/2014\/01\/29\/2954881\/toughen-states-campaign-finance.html\">Olympian<\/a>. SB 6098 was passed out of committee but was not brought to a vote on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that we need to act to combat the rise of dark money in politics,\u201d said Billig. \u201cThis is a bipartisan issue and this bill is a bipartisan solution. I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this bill and bring the transparency that voters expect and deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation introduced today by Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane, would bring increased transparency and accountability to reducing the prevalence of dark money in Washington\u2019s campaign finance system. SB 5153 would require any organization participating significantly in Washington political campaigns to follow the disclosure requirements for political action committees regardless of their non-profit status.\u00a0SB 5153 has a bipartisan list of co-sponsors, including Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, and Sen. Tim Sheldon, D-Potlatch. \u201cWhether you\u2019re a Republican, a Democrat or an independent, the people of this state count on free and fair elections when making their voting decisions,\u201d said Billig. \u201cAs more and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Billig introduces campaign finance transparency legislation - Andy Billig Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/senatedemocrats.wa.gov\/billigarchive\/2015\/01\/14\/billig-introduces-campaign-finance-transparency-legislation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Billig introduces campaign finance transparency legislation - Andy Billig Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Legislation introduced today by Sen. 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