Sec. 8. Secretary of State to report on information provided to voters regarding statewide referendum questions on ballot. By September 1, 2006, the Secretary of State using existing budgeted resources shall issue a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs that examines voter awareness in other states that mail voter information pamphlets on statewide referendum questions directly to voters. The report must include suggestions for improving the way information is provided to voters regarding statewide referendum questions in this State.

Sec. 9. Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to report regarding campaign finance reports for direct initiative campaigns and public access to those reports. By September 1, 2006, the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices shall issue a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs regarding campaign finance reports for direct initiative campaigns. The report must include the commission's examination of the feasibility of requiring political action committees to identify the direct initiative campaigns that the political action committees are receiving or expending money in support of or opposition to, whether voter information pamphlets or posters published by the State and publications by political action committees in support of or opposition to ballot measures should be required to include information indicating where campaign finance reports about the measure may be obtained, reducing the spending threshold that triggers reporting as a political action committee and, in the months prior to an election, increasing the frequency of reports by political action committees that have raised or spent in excess of $40,000 on a ballot measure.