For Immediate Release: June 22, 2000
Contact: Sigrid Bathen (916) 322-5737
sbathen@fppc.ca.gov

The Bipartisan Commission on the Political Reform Act of 1974, more commonly known as the McPherson Commission, will release its final report and recommendations in late June or early July.

Legislation by Sen. Bruce McPherson (R-Santa Cruz) created the commission in 1998 for the purpose of studying the FPPC and the Political Reform Act of 1974. For further information on the commission, contact Chairman Steve Lucas at (415)784-6871.

A key element of the commission's work is a report prepared by researchers at the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California at Berkeley. The IGS released the study in April to advise the McPherson Commission in its extensive two-year review of the Political Reform Act. The table of contents of the 149-page report is attached.

Included in the IGS study are:

• An empirical investigation of FPPC enforcement practices
• Reports from focus groups with local campaign treasurers, journalists and political law attorneys
• A campaign finance report "form experiment" designed to evaluate how easy or difficult the campaign finance forms are to complete

For a copy of the full IGS report, visit the FPPC News section of the FPPC website at www.fppc.ca.gov and click on the links in this release for the report. Or call the FPPC to pick up a copy or have a copy mailed to you.

Click here for the complete IGS report in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

The following links are Microsoft Word documents.

Click here for the IGS Table of Contents.

Click here for the IGS Report.

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