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This law was first created in 1981. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 425 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1981 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online. It has been modified 2 times. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. Those modifications are as follows: in 1993, chapter 641; in 2006, chapters 787<\/a> and 892<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":189199,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55959,"identifier":"24.2-949.1","token":"24.2\/9.3\/4\/24.2-949.1","url":"\/24.2-949.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/24.2-949.1\/","token":"24.2\/9.3\/4\/24.2-949.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Establishment of political action committees by certain entities","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 24.2-949.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any stock or nonstock corporation, labor organization, membership organization, cooperative, or other group of persons may establish and administer for political purposes, and solicit and expend contributions for, a political action committee, provided that:<\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

1.<\/span> No political action committee shall make a contribution or expenditure by utilizing money or anything of value secured by physical force, job discrimination, financial reprisal, threat of force, or as a condition of employment. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

2.<\/span> Any person soliciting a contribution to a political action committee shall, at the time of solicitation, inform the person being solicited of (i) his right to refuse to contribute without any reprisal and (ii) the political purposes of the committee. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nESTABLISHMENT OF POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES BY CERTAIN ENTITIES (\u00a7 24.2-949.1)\n\nAny stock or nonstock corporation, labor organization, membership organization,\ncooperative, or other group of persons may establish and administer for\npolitical purposes, and solicit and expend contributions for, a political action\ncommittee, provided that:\n\n1. No political action committee shall make a contribution or expenditure by\nutilizing money or anything of value secured by physical force, job\ndiscrimination, financial reprisal, threat of force, or as a condition of\nemployment.\n\n2. Any person soliciting a contribution to a political action committee shall,\nat the time of solicitation, inform the person being solicited of (i) his right\nto refuse to contribute without any reprisal and (ii) the political purposes of\nthe committee.\n\nHISTORY: 1981, c. 425, \u00a7 24.1-254.2; 1993, c. 641, \u00a7 24.2-909; 2006, cc. 787,\n892.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}