Organization expenditure by town committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee for state senator or state representative. Limit for general election and primary campaign. Aggregation of limits by committees, per written agreement. Biennial adjustment to limits

(a)(1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes and except as provided in subsection (e) of this section and subdivision (2) of this subsection, no town committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make an organization expenditure for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state senator in an amount that exceeds ten thousand dollars for the general election campaign. (2) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes and except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, a legislative leadership committee and a legislative caucus committee, or a legislative leadership committee and another legislative leadership committee, or all three such committees, for the same political party in the Senate may aggregate their maximum allowable amounts for an organization expenditure or expenditures made for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state senator for the general election campaign, provided a written agreement for such aggregation exists among the treasurers of each such aggregating committee. Upon execution of such written agreement, such treasurers shall jointly submit such written agreement to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, which shall make such written agreement available to the public on the commission's Internet web site. (b) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes no party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make an organization expenditure for the purposes described in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (25) of section 9-601 for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state senator for the primary campaign. (c) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes and except as provided in subsection (e) of this section and subdivision (2) of this subsection, no town committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make an organization expenditure for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state representative in an amount that exceeds three thousand five hundred dollars for the general election campaign. (2) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes and except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, a legislative leadership committee and a legislative caucus committee, or a legislative leadership committee and another legislative leadership committee, or all three such committees, for the same political party in the House of Representatives may aggregate their maximum allowable amounts for an organization expenditure or expenditures made for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state representative for the general election campaign, provided a written agreement for such aggregation exists among the treasurers of each such aggregating committee. Upon execution of such written agreement, such treasurers shall jointly submit such written agreement to the State Elections Enforcement Commission, which shall make such written agreement available to the public on the commission's Internet web site. (d) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, no party committee, legislative caucus committee or legislative leadership committee shall make an organization expenditure for the purposes described in subparagraph (A) of subdivision (25) of section 9-601 for the benefit of a participating candidate or the candidate committee of a participating candidate in the Citizens' Election Program for the office of state representative for the primary campaign. (e) For any election held in 2014, and thereafter, the amount of the limitations on organization expenditures provided in subsections (a) and (c) of this section shall be adjusted by the State Elections Enforcement Commission not later than January 15, 2014, and biennially thereafter, in accordance with any change in the consumer price index for all urban consumers as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, during the period beginning on January 1, 2010, and ending on December thirty-first in the year preceding the year in which said adjustment is to be made.