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Ethics Commissioners and Staff Tour Capitol Restoration Project

The Ethics Commission Commissioners and staff had the opportunity to tour the progress of the Oklahoma Capitol restoration project. The tour included viewing the future Ethics Commission office in the west wing of the Capitol and climbing to the top of the Capitol on the scaffolding outside the building to admire the masonry restoration process. The Commission is grateful for the opportunity to observe the remarkable skill and effort involved in the renovation and is eager to see the finished project.		Commissioners Charles Laster, Holly Easterling and John Hawkins tour Capitol Restoration Project
Jan Preslar, Pam Williams, Ashley Kemp, Darci McKee, Stephanie Black and Tiffany Elcyzyn tour new Ethics Commission location.		Ashley Kemp, Stephanie Black, Pam Williams, Jan Preslar and Tiffany Elcyzyn on top of the Capitol.

Late Filing Fees Ordered Against Political Action Committees, Candidate Committees and Political Party Committees

Registration and Administration Fee Change

On Friday, June 9, 2017, as a result in part to the second consecutive year of cuts of approximately 5% to the Commission’s annual appropriation, the Oklahoma Ethics Commission voted to increase registration and administration fees for all entities by $50, raising the fees to $150. These fee increases became effective July 1, 2017.

Question of the week:

Can a candidate committee give away gift cards to contributors and/or volunteers?

Under Ethics Rule 2.64, candidate committees may provide its contributors and volunteers free campaign-related goods of modest value. The Rule does not define modest, but it lists some common examples of such gifts, including t-shirts or caps. In addition, the items provided to volunteers and contributors must be campaign-related; for example, a cap or t-shirt on which the campaign logo or candidate committee name is printed. Such gifts are different than the goods sold by the committee to raise funds.
 
A gift card is equivalent to cash. Consequently, the Ethics Rules do not permit such an item because it is not campaign-related. If a candidate committee wishes to pay an individual, that individual is not a volunteer but a committee staff member on payroll.

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