ATTENTION ALL CITY CANDIDATES: New Campaign Finance Requirements

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 is the filing deadline for filing 2015 Cycle 4 (sixth Tuesday pre-election) campaign finance reports with the Board of Ethics.

WHO MUST FILE WITH THE BOARD OF ETHICS

1. Candidate committees of candidates for Philadelphia Mayor, City Council, Sheriff, or City Commissioner.
2. Political Committees that have made expenditures to influence a City election. An expenditure to influence a City election includes:
   • A direct contribution to a candidate for City office.
   • An expenditure that is coordinated with a candidate for City office (and is therefore an in-kind contribution to the candidate).
   • An expenditure for an electioneering communication, which is any broadcast, cable, radio, print, Internet, or satellite communication (a) that promotes, attacks, supports, or opposes a candidate, or (b) that, within 50 days of a covered election, names, refers to, includes, or depicts a candidate in that covered election.
3. Not-for-profit entities, individuals and other persons that spend or promise to pay, in the aggregate, $5,000 or more for electioneering communications that are published or to be published within 50 days of the November 3, 2015 election.