[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1914 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1914

   To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the 
   influence of multicandidate political committees in elections for 
                            Federal office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 1993

   Mr. Smith of Michigan (for himself, Mr. Ballenger, Mr. Grams, Mr. 
Hoekstra, Mr. Hoke, Mr. Horn, Mr. Huffington, Mr. Lazio, Mr. Shays, Mr. 
 Sensenbrenner, Mr. Smith of New Jersey, Mr. McCrery, Mr. Torkildsen, 
 and Mr. Walker) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                 the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the 
   influence of multicandidate political committees in elections for 
                            Federal office.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``PAC Limitation Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN CEILING ON MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL COMMITTEE 
              CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES IN ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL 
              OFFICE.

    Section 315(a)(2)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 
(2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(2)(A)) is amended by striking out ``$5,000'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``$1,000''.

SEC. 3. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS 
              FROM MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL COMMITTEES.

    Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441a), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(i) A candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate 
or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress may not, with respect to a 
reporting period for an election, accept contributions from 
multicandidate political committees totaling in excess of the total of 
contributions accepted from individual residents of the congressional 
district involved.''.

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