Gov. Code, § 82031 · Chapter 2. Definitions
Gov. Code, § 82031
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
“Independent expenditure” means an expenditure made by any person, including a payment of public moneys by a state or local governmental agency, in connection with a communication which expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or the qualification, passage or defeat of a clearly identified measure, or taken as a whole and in context, unambiguously urges a particular result in an election but which is not made to or at the behest of the affected candidate or committee.
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History
Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 363, Sec. 2. (AB 9) Effective January 1, 2010.
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