If the commission accepts the offer this week, the case will remain open until a formal inquiry by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is completed.

The alleged violations are misdemeanors and third-felonies. The total amount involved in the alleged violations is $15,000, according to a statement from the commission in June.

No criminal charges have been filed against the groups or their individual corporate officers. But Michael Bass, who heads the political action committee of the Home Builders Association of Mid-Florida Inc. in Maitland, FL, was named as a defendant in the state's complaint, along with PAC chairmen from the other 11 groups.

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