NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1979 SESSION

CHAPTER 730
SENATE BILL 713

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT A POLITICAL PARTY REQUIRED TO FILE REPORTS UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW SHALL FILE A COPY OF THE FEDERAL REPORT IN LIEU OF THE STATE REPORT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 163-278.9 is amended by adding new subsections to read:
"(d)	Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (c) of this section, any political party (including a State, district, county, or precinct committee thereof) which is required to file reports under those subsections and under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (2 U.S.C. 434) shall instead of filing the reports required by those subsections, file with the State Board of Elections:
(1)	the organizational report required by subsection (a)(1) of this section, and
(2)	a copy of each report required to be filed under 2 U.S.C. 434, such copy to be filed on the same day as the federal report is required to be filed.
(e)	Any report filed under subsection (d) of this section may include matter required by the federal law but not required by this Article.
(f)	Any report filed under subsection (d) of this section must contain all the information required by G.S. 163-278.8 or G.S. 163-278.11, notwithstanding that the federal law may set a higher reporting threshold.
(g)	Any report filed under subsection (d) of this section may reflect the cumulative totals required by G.S. 163-278.11 in an attachment, if the federal law does not permit such information in the body of the report.
(h)	Any report or attachment filed under subsection (d) of this section must be made under oath."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 31st day of May, 1979.