Committees
The following form must be filed when you establish a committee:
Form RequiredDue DateWithin 10 days of raising $2,000.
The following filing schedule applies if your raise or spend less than $2,000 per calendar year:
Due DateForm RequiredPeriod CoveredJan 31, 20192018 Annual
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2018Jan 31, 20202019 Annual
Jan 1 - Dec 31, 2019
The following filing schedule applies if you raise or spend $2,000 or more per calendar year:
This filing schedule is tentative and assumes a March 2020 primary election. The date of the primary will be confirmed after November 6, 2018, when voters will decide if primary elections should be moved from June to March. Download PDF.
PRIMARY ELECTION: March 3, 2020
Due DateForm RequiredPeriod CoveredFeb 20, 20202nd Pre-Election
Jan 19 - Feb 15, 2020Feb 28, 20203rd Pre-Election
Feb 16 - Feb 26, 2020
GENERAL ELECTION: November 2, 2020 (if necessary)
Due DateForm RequiredPeriod Covered
The following forms are required when you perform certain activities:
ActivityForm RequiredDue DateReceive or make a contribution of $1,000 or more within 90 days of election.Within 24 hours of contribution.Distribute a communication to 200 or more persons.Within 24 hours of distribution between candidate filing week and the general election.
Within 5 business days of distribution otherwise.
Make expenditures to an individual for their appearance in a printed, televised, or radio advertisement, or in a telephone message that supports or opposes the qualification, passage or defeat of a City ballot measure, where:
- The expenditures total $5,000 or more; or
- The advertisement states or suggests that the individual is a member of an occupation that requires licensure, certification, or other specialized, documented training as a prerequisite to engage in that occupation.
Within 10 days of payment made or services received, whichever is earlier.
The following forms may be required when you make or incur independent expenditures of (or one or more payments for member communications totaling):
ThreshholdSupporting/OpposingForm RequiredDue Date$1,000 or more
City or LAUSD candidates or City ballot measuresWithin 24 hours of expenditure during the 90 days preceding the election or on the date of the election..
$1,000 or more; or
$100 or more if distributed to 200 or more persons.
City candidates, officeholders, or ballot measures
Within 24 hours of expenditure between candidate filing week and the general election.
Within 5 business days of expenditure otherwise.
$1,000 or more
LAUSD candidates
Within 24 hours of expenditure.
The following forms must be filed to terminate your committee:
Form RequiredPeriod CoveredDue Date
Statement of Organization (Form 410)
This form must be filed as a Termination statement.
N/AWhen you terminate your committee
Your final campaign statement is considered a Termination statement.
Any time period since your last campaign statement, up to the date you terminate your committee.Next filing deadline after the committee termination date.
