Question
I need to create a committee and electronically file reports in ORCA for a previous year.
Answer

When you open ORCA, you must enter the user name and password of a Secure Access Washington (SAW) account to start using it. If that SAW account is associated with a political campaign, you’ll be able to create an ORCA campaign for that committee.

For a continuing political committee, you’ll be able to create an ORCA campaign for each calendar year that that committee existed, if there is no existing ORCA campaign for committee for a partciular calendar year.

Click the Setup Wizard function in ORCA and see if the committee that you wish to create a campaign for is listed on the Select Committee window. If it is, click the circle next to it and click Next.

On the next screen, choose the calendar year for the ORCA campaign that you wish to create. If you’re not able to create the ORCA campaign that you need, please contact the Public Disclosure Commission for assistance.