[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2126 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2126

          To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 13, 1993

  Mr. Shays 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.

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

SECTION 1. REDUCTION LIMITATION AMOUNT FOR MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL 
              COMMITTEE CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES.

    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 ``$500''.

SEC. 2. PERCENTAGE 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 25 percent of 
all contributions accepted by the candidate with respect to the 
reporting period.''.

SEC. 3. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS 
              FROM PERSONS OTHER THAN LOCAL INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS.

    Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441a), as amended by section 1, is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection:
    ``(j)(1) 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 persons other than local individual residents totaling in excess 
of 25 percent of all contributions accepted by the candidate with 
respect to the reporting period.
    ``(2) As used in this subsection, the term `local individual 
resident' means an individual who resides in the congressional district 
involved.''.

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