Campaign disclosure: advertisements.

The Political Reform Act of 1974 requires an advertisement to contain prescribed disclosure statements regarding the entity or entities that paid for the advertisement. The act requires an electronic media advertisement that is a graphic, image, animated graphic, or animated image to include certain text that links to an internet website that contains the prescribed disclosures. This bill would allow an electronic media advertisement to include the prescribed disclosures directly on the advertisement itself as an alternative to linking to an internet website that contains the disclosures. The bill would make additional conforming changes. This bill would not become operative if Senate Bill 1360 of the 2021–22 Regular Session is enacted by the Legislature during the 2022 calendar year, takes effect on or before January 1, 2023, and amends Section 84504.3 of the Government Code. The Political Reform Act of 1974, an initiative measure, provides that the Legislature may amend the act to further the act's purposes upon a 23 vote of each house of the Legislature and compliance with specified procedural requirements. This bill would declare that it furthers the purposes of the act.