GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1987 SESSION
CHAPTER 113
AN ACT TO REQUIRE POLITICAL COMMITTEES TO BE LABELED ACCURATELY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 163-278.7(b)(1) is rewritten to read:
"(1) The Name, Address, and Purpose of the Candidate, Political Committee, or Referendum Committee. When the political committee or referendum committee is created pursuant to G.S. 163-278.19(b), the name shall be or include the name of the corporation, insurance company, business entity, labor union or professional association whose officials, employees, or members established the committee. When the political committee or referendum committee is not created pursuant to G.S. 163-278.19(b), the name shall be or include the economic interest, if identifiable, principally represented by the committee's organizers or intended to be advanced by use of the committee's receipts."
Sec. 2. G.S. 163-278.14 is amended by adding one new subsection to read:
"(c) No political committee or referendum committee shall make any contribution unless in doing so it reports to the recipient the contributor's name as required in G.S. 163-278.7(b)(1)."
Sec. 3. G.S. 163-278.19(b) is amended by inserting after the citation "G.S. 278.6(14)" the following to read:
"or a referendum committee as defined in G.S. 163-278.6(18b)".
Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1987, provided that any political committee or referendum committee other than an inactive political or referendum committee under G.S. 163-278.10 shall file an amended statement of organization no later than September 1, 1987, if this act requires naming or information not provided in the organizational statement already filed.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 1st day of May, 1987.