C. One thousand dollars for reports required under section 1017, subsection 2, paragraphs A and F; section 1017, subsection 3-A, paragraphs A and E; and state party committee reports required to be filed under section 1017- A, subsection 4, paragraph B; or

D. Five hundred dollars for municipal, district and county committees for reports required under section 1017- A, subsection 4, paragraphs A, B and C and section 1018, subsection 2; or.

Sec. 11. 21-A MRSA §1020-A, sub-§5-A, ¶E, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 714, Pt. PP, §1 and affected by §2, is repealed.

Sec. 12. 21-A MRSA §1055, as amended by PL 2001, c. 430, §9, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:

§1055.__Publication or distribution of statements

1.__Approval of candidate.__When a political action committee makes an expenditure to finance a communication expressly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate through broadcasting stations, newspapers, magazines, outdoor advertising facilities, direct mails and other similar types of general public political advertising and through flyers, handbills, bumper stickers and other nonperiodical publications, the political action committee must first seek approval of the expenditure from the candidate pursuant to section 1015, subsection 10.__The communication must clearly and conspicuously state the name and address of the political action committee that authorized, made or financed the expenditure for the communication and that the communication has been authorized by the candidate.

2.__Broadcasts.__A person operating a broadcasting station within this State may not broadcast any communication pursuant to subsection 1 without an oral or visual announcement of the name and address of the political action committee that made or financed the expenditure for the communication and a statement that reads:__"A copy of our report is available from the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices."

3.__Violations.__An expenditure, communication or broadcast that results in a violation of subsection 1 is subject to the provisions of section 1015, subsection 12.__An expenditure, communication or broadcast that results in a violation of