[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2430 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2430

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require that 
 candidates for the House of Representatives receive at least half of 
             their campaign contributions from individuals.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 29, 1995

  Mr. Franks of Connecticut 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 require that 
 candidates for the House of Representatives receive at least half of 
             their campaign contributions from individuals.

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

SECTION 1. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION LIMITATION ON 
              CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PERSONS OTHER THAN INDIVIDUALS.

    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 persons 
other than individuals totaling in excess of 50 percent of all 
contributions accepted by the candidate with respect to the reporting 
period.''.
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