Session Laws

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Chapter 43 of the acts of 1994 is hereby amended by striking out section 48, as amended by section 16 of chapter 292 of the acts of 1994, and inserting in place thereof the following section:-

Section 48. There is hereby established a special commission to consist of three members of the senate, one of whom shall be the chairman of the joint committee on election laws or his designee, one of whom shall be the chairman of the senate committee on ways and means or his designee, and one of whom shall be the senate minority leader or his designee, and three members of the house of representatives, one of whom shall be the chairman of the joint committee on election laws or his designee, one of whom shall be the chairman of the house committee on ways and means or his designee, and one whom shall be the house minority leader or his designee, the governor or his designee, the state secretary or his designee, the attorney general or his designee, the state treasurer or his designee, the state auditor or his designee, the director of campaign and political finance or his designee who shall serve as chairman, the deputy director of campaign and political finance or his designee, the commissioner of revenue or his designee, the comptroller or his designee, three persons to be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, three persons to be appointed by the president of the senate, and three persons to be appointed by the governor, for the purpose of making an investigation and study relative to additional or full public financing of political campaigns and the implementation of the current public financing system in the commonwealth.

Said commission shall report to the general court the results of its investigation and study, and its recommendations, if any, together with drafts of legislation necessary to carry its recommendations into effect, by filing the same with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives on or before the third Wednesday of May, nineteen hundred and ninety-six.