Governor Newsom Signs Bills Increasing Transparency of Ballot Measure, Text Message Campaigns
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Governor Newsom Signs Bills Increasing Transparency of Ballot Measure, Text Message Campaigns

Two California bills supported by VRTK were signed into law today by Governor Gavin Newsom.

SB 47 by Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) helps voters make informed decisions by requiring initiative signature gatherers to disclose the top three funders of the committee organizing the campaign to voters before they sign to qualify the initiative for the ballot.

AB 201 by Assemblymember Sabrina Cervantes (D-Riverside) requires a text message that supports or opposes a candidate or ballot measure to disclose the entity that paid for the text message, unless certain conditions are met and as specified.

Voters’ Right to Know applauds Governor Newsom, the California Legislature, and the hardworking advocates at California Clean Money Campaign who led the push to make these important bills into law.

Read full press release on CA.gov.