Request that the Board waive a $720.00 campaign finance late fee assessed against Hannah Smith Mason, a successful candidate for Member of School Board, District 8, Lafayette in the October 14, 2023 election, whose 2023 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 18 days late. |
|
Hannah Smith Mason requests a waiver and states the following:
Her husband assists her with the reporting process, and they simply missed the deadline. Once the error was realized, she immediately submitted the report. This is a result of balancing a small business and raising children, which led to the delay. It has never been her intention to violate the laws of ethics. Her service in public office has always been to improve and serve the children's education to the best of her ability. Unfortunately, meeting and understanding the CF disclosures has been difficult. Ms. Mason would like to request a waiver because she has not gathered much money in her campaign to concentrate on the issues at hand for the children and not be tied to the donors' wishes.
|
|
ELECTION: October 14, 2023
TYPES OF REPORT: 2023 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 18 ASSESSED FEE: $720.00 REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2024. REPORTS FILED: March 4, 2024 ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $143.15 Expenditures; $2,645.85 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE(1)- PAID
10/12/2019 Election: 2020 SUPP (224 days late)- $400.00
|
|
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.
|
|
Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
|
|