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Beginning Jan. 2, 2020, appointed and elected officials required to submit Personal Financial Affairs (F-1) disclosures will use a new online system to submit their statements.

Parts of that new system including the ability for filers to view past F-1 statements are now available.

You may have questions about whether to report lobbying compensation when you earn it, or when you are paid.

Compensation should be reported for the month you earn it, and lobbying compensation must be reported monthly during any month that you lobby.

A contract lobbyist, for… read more

Major changes are coming to Personal Financial Affairs Disclosure (F-1) reports. Here is an overview:

Beginning Jan. 2, 2020, F-1 filers candidates, elected officials, state board and commission members, state agency directors, and legislative and gubernatorial… read more

When you submit a document with ORCA, you may notice a button at the top of the preview of the form called Add note.

This button allows you to add a note to your C-3 or C-4 report. If you click on that button, you will get a blank window to type in. Whatever you type will be added as an… read more

Commission Chair David Ammons, presiding over his first meeting, thanked outgoing Chair Anne Levinson for her service.

She joined the commission in 2015. In addition to her service on the commission, Levinson formerly the Seattle deputy mayor and a municipal court judge… read more

From Saturday, October 26, through Monday, November 4, any individual may email a campaign at the address reported on the candidate or committee registration to request to inspect the campaign's books of account.

If someone contacts your campaign to check your books, make an appointment… read more

Did you get a contribution from an unknown source? If you truly do not know who donated the money, you may retain up to $500 or 1 percent of the total contributions received in a calendar year, whichever is greater.

Once you surpass the $50,000 mark in total contributions for the current… read more

The Public Disclosure Commission will make personal financial affairs disclosure (F-1) information from candidates, elected officials and others available online beginning in January 2020.

The F-1 is the only PDC form not… read more

If you file reports for a campaign, you may have seen the "Credit Card Debt" option in the ORCA system. Most campaigns should never use this feature. The credit card debt function should only be used if the campaign has its own credit card, issued by the bank just for that election campaign or… read more

Many expenditures whether made directly by the campaign or by a staffer who is then reimbursed require a detailed description of what was purchased.

Hire a campaign consultant? The public needs to know if they spent some of the money on subvendors.

Buy advertising? Report the… read more