Bill > B26-0329

Introduced Session

A BILL IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA To amend the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to extend the time period for an elected official to respond to a notice of intention to recall from 10 calendar days to 10 business days, to require a petition for a recall filed with the Board of Elections to contain certain information if the petition was printed and circulated by a political committee, political action committee, or independent expenditure committee other than the political committee created in support of the recall, to align the computation of qualified registered electors with the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, and to provide that the Board of Elections shall refuse to accept a petition filed in support of a recall if the petition contains pages that were printed and circulated by a political committee, political action committee, or independent expenditure committee other than the political committee created in support of the recall, and the number of pages marked as such would result in the petition clearly bearing on its face an insufficient number of signatures to qualify for the ballot; and to amend the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability Establishment and Comprehensive Ethics Reform Amendment Act of 2011 to provide for an expanded definition of “coordinate” or “coordination”, to require the Director of Campaign Finance to make available to the public all documents, including orders, opinions, motions, and responses, pertaining to an investigation on the Office of Campaign Finance’s website, to provide for requirements and a specified timeline for when the Director of Campaign Finance receives a complaint for investigation, to require the Director of Campaign Finance to publish and disseminate guides on relevant information important for a campaign’s operations, to require the Director of Campaign Finance to publish all documents related to an investigation on a publicly-accessible, searchable platform, to require additional reporting from committees to increase transparency, to prohibit the Director of Campaign Finance from accepting a report that omits certain information, to require that all candidates, political action committees, political committees, independent expenditure committees or agents of candidates, political action committees, political committees, or independent expenditure committees, or persons that publish, distribute, disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated, to another person in the District, certain campaign materials or political communications that use or contain artificial media created or produced using generative artificial intelligence include a certain disclosure in a certain manner, to prohibit the distribution of artificial media within 90 days of an election that do not conform to the disclosure requirements, and to permit injunctive relief by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the issuance of civil fines by the Campaign Finance Board for any violations, to specify the fund balance and duration requirements for recall committees, to raise the threshold for certification for the Fair Elections Program for a candidate for Chairman, at-large member, or ward member of the Council and member of the State Board of Education elected at-large, to revoke certification for someone who loses a primary running under the Fair Elections Program and then switches to run for another covered office in the general election, to require the Director of Campaign Finance and the Office of the Chief Financial Officer to disperse Fair Elections Program funds within 3 business days during the last 60 days prior to the date of an election, to prohibit a candidate who was expelled from the Council from being certified under the Fair Elections Program, to extend the deadline for campaigns to remit funds to the Fair Elections Fund, and to set a minimum fine amount for certain civil penalties.

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Charles Allen (D)*,  Janeese George (D)*,  Christina Henderson (I)*,  Brianne Nadeau (D)*, 

Referred to Committee on Executive Administration and Labor (on 09/17/2025)

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