[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2446 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2446

   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

                           September 29, 1995

 Mr. Smith of Michigan (for himself, Mrs. Smith of Washington, and Mr. 
    Wamp) 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 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 1995''.

SEC. 2. BAN 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 to read as follows:
            ``(A) to any candidate and his authorized political 
        committees with respect to any election for Federal office;''.

SEC. 3. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS 
              FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT.

    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 all sources 
outside the congressional district involved totaling in excess of the 
total of contributions accepted from individual residents of the 
congressional district involved.''.
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