A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the legislative research commission to study whether the state should limit the role of political parties in campaign fund‑raising.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Research Commission may study the desirability of limiting the role of political parties in campaign fund‑raising.  In its study, the Commission may consider all of the following:
(1)	The proposed change to G.S. 163‑278.13 contained in the First Edition of House Bill 1432 of the 2007 Session.
(2)	The amount of contributions from candidates and candidate campaign committees to political party executive committees and from political party executive committees to candidates and candidate campaign committees, and the impact that such contributions have had on North Carolina's political system over the years. 
(3)	The approaches other states take to contributions between candidates and political parties, and the effect that those approaches have on the political systems of those states.
(4)	Any other factor that in the Commission's judgment is relevant to this topic.
SECTION 2.  The Legislative Research Commission may make an interim report to the 2007 General Assembly, Regular Session 2008, and shall make its final report to the 2009 General Assembly.
SECTION 3.  The Legislative Services Officer shall allocate funds appropriated to the General Assembly for the expenditures of the Legislative Services Commission in conducting this study.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.