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Minutes for HB2642 - Committee on Ethics, Elections and Local Government
Short Title
Elections; corrupt political advertising.
Minutes Content for Tue, Mar 20, 2018
Chairperson Bowers opened the hearing on HB2642. Mike Heim, staff revisor, presented a briefing on the bill.
Representative Keith Esau testified in support of HB2642. Representative Esau indicated he sponsored this bill at the beginning of the year due to Twitter increasing their character limit to 280. (Attachment 3)
Questions by the Committee were addressed by Representative Esau and staff.
Mark Skoglund testified as a neutral conferee on HB2642. Mr. Skoglund provided some background on the "paid for" attribution. Mr. Skoglund indicated increasing the Twitter character limit was included in their 2017 Annual Report as a legislative recommendation to consider. Mr. Skoglund addressed the social media conspicuous attribution and the chairperson/treasurer attribution. (Attachment 4)
Mr. Skoglund and Representative Esau addressed questions from the Committee.
Chairperson Bowers closed the hearing on HB2642.
