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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-195
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $420 campaign finance late fee assessed against Eddie "Gene" Hanson, a candidate for Sheriff for Webster Parish, in the October 12, 2019, whose 10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 7 days late.
Facts:
Melanie B. Scruggs, treasurer and report preparer for Eddie G. Hanson, requests a waiver and states the following:

She volunteered to act as treasurer for this election, and as a result of her overloaded work and school schedule, she failed to file the report within the due date guidelines. She is requesting a wavier and attests that Mr. Hanson was not the fault of the delay of filing the report. She is a full-time teacher and at the time was a full-time student enrolled in a master's degree program at LSU-S.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-P
DAYS LATE: 7
ASSESSED FEE: $420
REPORTS DUE: October 2, 2019
REPORTS FILED: October 9, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $406.44 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

Law:
18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.

18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.

Recommendations:
Suspend all but $200 based on future compliance. The late fee must be paid within 30 days or the suspended portion becomes due and owing.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-195 - Staff Memo Eddie _Gene_ Hanson