California’s commision for fair political practices has updated its campaign disclosure manuals, with revisions including detailed rules for cryptocurrency contributions declarations.
An agenda released for an upcoming commission meeting includes a discussion of updated campaign disclosure manuals, which have been reworked to reflect recent changes in legislation and commission regulations.
These updates include campaign contribution limits, limited liability companies (LLC) disclosure requirements, behested payment reporting, cryptocurrency contributions, excessive contributions, advertising disclosure requirements, and other non-substantive technical changes.
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Of specific interest are sections of the manuals that now include guidelines for reporting cryptocurrency contributions.
According to the guidelines, a politicial comittee may solicit a contribution of cryptocurrency as a nonmonetary contribution, which is subject to specific requirements. Cryptocurrency contributions are set to be subject to applicable limits and may not be accepted from foreign principals, lobbyists or anonymous sources.
Committees are also barred from receiving cryptocurrency contributions directly in peer to peer transactions. Cryptocurrency contributions can be received through…
