3.0.0 4644 2023-01-11T13:16:36Z 2023-01-11T13:16:36Z House H HR 2010-02-22 111 hsha00 Committee on House Administration House Standing Referred to 2010-02-22T19:00:49Z 2010-02-22 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hsha00 Committee on House Administration 2010-02-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2010-02-22 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress S001169 Rep. Sestak, Joe [D-PA-7] Joe Sestak D PA 7 N Government Operations and Politics Civil actions and liability Corporate finance and management Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Government Operations and Politics 00 2010-02-22 Introduced in House 2010-03-03T19:24:01Z Fairness in Corporate Campaign Spending Act of 2010 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit a corporation from making any independent expenditure or disbursing funds for any electioneering communication without obtaining the prior approval of a majority of its shareholders. Subjects officers and directors of a corporation to personal liability for civil money penalties for violating this prohibition.

Exempts from this prohibition any corporation whose aggregate disbursements for electioneering communications during a year: (1) are less than $8,000, if the corporation has fewer than 100 full-time-equivalent (FTE) employees; or (2) are less than $20,000, if the corporation has more than 100 FTE employees.

Declares that nothing in this Act shall affect political disbursements by a separate segregated fund established by a corporation.

]]> Fairness in Corporate Campaign Spending Act of 2010 Display Title Fairness in Corporate Campaign Spending Act of 2010 Official Title as Introduced To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit a corporation from making any independent expenditure or disbursing funds for any electioneering communication without obtaining the prior approval of a majority of its shareholders, and for other purposes. Introduced in House IH Short Titles as Introduced Fairness in Corporate Campaign Spending Act of 2010 Introduced in House 2010-02-22T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111hr4644ih/xml/BILLS-111hr4644ih.xml 2010-02-22 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.