The California Form 462, Verification of Independent Expenditures, names the individual legally responsible for verifying that the committee’s disclosed Independent Expenditures were not coordinated with the candidates or ballot measures they support or oppose, or with their committees or representatives.
The Form 462 is due within 10 days of any Independent Expenditure that brings the committee’s aggregate to $1,000 or more in a calendar year.
A committee lists each candidate or measure only once per election. If anything changes, file an amendment within 10 days of the change. To file, download the generated report and upload it to your state account.
How does ISPolitical fill in the Form 462?
An expense pulls to the Form 462 when it has a Support/Oppose Memo that:
- has the tag IE to Support or IE to Oppose
- names the candidate’s Individual record or the ballot measure’s Other Entity record
The S/O Memo tells the report which candidate or ballot measure the expenditure supports or opposes.
Dual-filer Committees (State and Federal): IEs paid from either account pull to the report when the S/O Memo is supporting or opposing a state ballot measure or other state candidate or committee.
Name of candidate or ballot measure: For a ballot measure, the report uses the Ballot Measure Name on the ballot measure’s Other Entity record. Make sure that field holds the full official name.
Jurisdiction and district: The report uses the District Number in the candidate’s Candidate Info. To change what prints, edit the District Number on the candidate’s record, then regenerate the report.
Why is a transaction missing from my 462?
If you expect an expenditure to pull to the report, check that:
- the transaction type is Expense
- it has a Support/Oppose Memo tagged IE to Support or IE to Oppose
- the S/O Memo names the correct candidate or ballot measure
