[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1865 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1865

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide that the 
     same limitation on contributions to candidates shall apply to 
         multicandidate political committees and other persons.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 1995

Mr. Whitfield introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on House Oversight

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide that the 
     same limitation on contributions to candidates shall apply to 
         multicandidate political committees and other persons.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SAME LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES TO APPLY TO 
              MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL COMMITTEES AND OTHER PERSONS.
    Section 315(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 
U.S.C. 441a(a)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking out ``$1,000'' and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``$3,000''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking out ``$5,000'' and 
        inserting in lieu thereof ``$3,000''.
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 1 shall apply with respect to 
elections taking place more than 6 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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