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- | === Section 1. === | + | ===== Section 1. ===== |
- | 1. The people of North Dakota need information to choose candidates for office, vote on | + | 1. The people of North Dakota need information to choose candidates for |
- | ballot | + | office, vote on ballot measures, and ensure that their representatives |
- | transparency must be sufficient to enable the people to make informed decisions and | + | are accountable. This transparency must be sufficient to enable the |
- | give proper weight to different speakers and messages. The people therefore have | + | people to make informed decisions and give proper weight to different |
- | the right to know in a timely | + | speakers and messages. The people therefore have the right to know in a |
- | resources | + | timely manner the source, quantity, timing, and nature of resources used |
- | assembly, statewide ballot-issue election, and state government action. This right is | + | to influence any statewide election, election for the legislative |
- | essential to the rights of free speech, assembly, and petition guaranteed by the First | + | assembly, statewide ballot-issue election, and state government action. |
- | Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and shall be construed broadly. | + | This right is essential to the rights of free speech, assembly, and |
+ | petition guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the | ||
+ | United States and shall be construed broadly. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 2. The legislative assembly shall implement and enforce this section by | ||
+ | enacting, no more than three years after the effective date of this | ||
+ | article, laws that require prompt, electronically accessible, plainly | ||
+ | comprehensible, | ||
+ | funds spent in any medium, in an amount greater than two hundred | ||
+ | dollars, adjusted for inflation, to influence any statewide election, | ||
+ | election for the legislative assembly, statewide ballot-issue election, | ||
+ | or to lobby or otherwise influence state government action. The | ||
+ | legislative assembly shall have an ongoing duty to revise these laws as | ||
+ | necessary to promote the purposes of this section in light of changes in | ||
+ | technology and political practices. The legislative assembly shall vest | ||
+ | by law one or more entities with authority to implement, interpret, and | ||
+ | enforce this section and legislation enacted thereunder. If the laws or | ||
+ | rules enacted or an implementation, | ||
+ | action taken under this section fail to fully vindicate the rights | ||
+ | provided in this section, a resident taxpayer may bring suit in the | ||
+ | courts of this state to enforce such rights. | ||
- | 2. The legislative assembly shall implement and enforce this section by enacting, no | ||
- | more than three years after the effective date of this article, laws that require prompt, | ||
- | electronically | ||
- | and true source | ||
- | hundred dollars, adjusted for inflation, to influence any statewide election, election for | ||
- | the legislative | ||
- | influence state government action. The legislative assembly shall have an ongoing | ||
- | duty to revise these laws as necessary to promote the purposes of this section in light | ||
- | of changes in technology and political practices. The legislative assembly shall vest | ||
- | by law one or more entities with authority to implement, interpret, and enforce this | ||
- | section | ||
- | implementation, | ||
- | fully vindicate the rights provided in this section, a resident taxpayer may bring suit in | ||
- | the courts of this state to enforce such rights. | ||
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