2159.5.

 Any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration to any person who assists another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration, shall do all of the following:

(a) Maintain a list of the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all individuals that the person, company, or other organization has agreed to compensate for assisting others to register to vote, and shall provide to each person receiving that consideration a written statement of that person’s personal responsibilities and liabilities under Sections 2138, 2139, 2150, 2158, 2159, 18100, 18101, 18103, 18106, 18108, 18108.1, and 18108.5. Receipt of the written statement shall be acknowledged, in writing, by the person receiving the consideration, and the acknowledgment shall be kept by the person, company, or organization that agrees to compensate that person. All records required by this subdivision shall be maintained for a minimum of three years, and shall be made available to the elections official, the Secretary of State, or an appropriate prosecuting agency, upon demand. As an alternate to maintaining the records required by this subdivision, the records may be filed with the county elections official, who shall retain those records for a minimum of three years. The county elections official may charge a fee, not to exceed actual costs, for storing records pursuant to this subdivision.

(b) Not render any payment or promised consideration unless the information specified in Section 2159 has been affixed personally on the affidavit in the handwriting of the person with whom the agreement for payment was made.

(c) At the time of submission of affidavits to elections officials, identify and separate those affidavits into groups that do and that do not comply with the requirements of Sections 2150 and 2159. A signed acknowledgment shall be attached to each group of affidavits identifying a group as in compliance with Sections 2150 and 2159, and a group as not in compliance with either Section 2150 or 2159, or both.

(d) Failure to comply with this section shall not cause the invalidation of the registration of the voter.

18108.5.

 (a) Any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration to any person who assists another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration who fails to comply with Section 2159.5, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or, when the failure to comply is found to be willful, not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

(b) Any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration to any person who assists another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration, upon a third or subsequent conviction, on charges brought and separately tried, for failure to comply with Section 2159.5 shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

(c) An elections official shall notify any person, company, or other organization that agrees to pay money or other valuable consideration to any person who assists another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration, when three or more affidavits of registration submitted by a person who assisted others to register to vote each reflects a violation of one or more of Sections 18100, 18101, 18103, and 18106. The elections official may forward a copy of each of the noncomplying affidavits of registration to the district attorney, who may make a determination whether probable cause exists to believe that a violation of law has occurred.

(d) This section shall not apply to any public agency or its employees that is designated as a voter registration agency pursuant to the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1973gg), when an elector asks for assistance to register to vote during the course and scope of the agency’s normal business.

18109.5.

 (a) Any person who offers to pay or pays money or other valuable consideration to another person, either directly or indirectly, on a per-affidavit basis to assist another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Any person who receives money or other valuable consideration, either directly or indirectly, on a per-affidavit basis to assist another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit of registration is guilty of misdemeanor.

(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit payment for assisting another person to register to vote by receiving the completed affidavit which is not, either directly or indirectly, on a per-affidavit basis.