Bill > HB2333

This bill aims to enhance the safety of elected officials, candidates, executive state officers, election officials, and criminal justice participants by allowing them to keep their primary residential addresses confidential and by expanding access to personal security measures. The bill defines "personal security measures" broadly to include nonstructural and structural security devices, professional security personnel, and cybersecurity services, including those that remove residential addresses from websites and offer credit monitoring. It also permits the use of surplus campaign funds for these security measures, provided they are necessary due to dangers or threats directly related to the individual's status as a candidate or elected official, and that the measures are reasonably proportional to the threat. The bill specifies that these funds cannot be used for payments to certain family members or entities with which they have a beneficial interest, and that all security expenses must be for the usual and normal charge for goods or services.