Bill > S418

This bill proposes several changes to campaign finance laws in Massachusetts. Key provisions include: 1. Defining "child care services" as an allowable campaign expense, with some limitations on paying family members. 2. Defining "in-kind contribution" to include the value of goods and services provided to a campaign. 3. Establishing a "two-year election cycle" for contribution limits. 4. Requiring the disclosure of business addresses instead of just residential addresses for certain campaign finance reports. 5. Allowing political committees to use campaign funds for cybersecurity and personal protective equipment expenses under certain conditions. 6. Indexing contribution and aggregate limits to inflation using the federal consumer price index. 7. Modifying reporting requirements for independent expenditure PACs and expanding the types of information they must disclose. 8. Increasing the timeframe for candidates and committees to report contributions from 7 days to 14 days. 9. Requiring the director of campaign and political finance to promulgate additional rules and regulations to implement certain provisions of the bill.