[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 591 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 591

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to ban activities of 
  political action committees in elections for Federal office and to 
 reduce the limitation on contributions to candidates by persons other 
               than multicandidate political committees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 19, 1995

 Mr. Poshard 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 ban activities of 
  political action committees in elections for Federal office and to 
 reduce the limitation on contributions to candidates by persons other 
               than multicandidate political committees.

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

SECTION 1. BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES IN 
              ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL OFFICE.

    (a) In General.--Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 
1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new section:

  ``ban on federal election activities by political action committees

    ``Sec. 324. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no 
person other than an individual or a political committee may make 
contributions, solicit or receive contributions, or make expenditures 
for the purpose of influencing an election for Federal office.''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION IN LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES BY 
              PERSONS OTHER THAN MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL COMMITTEES.

    Section 315(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 
(2 U.S.C. 441a(a)(1)(A)) is amended by striking out ``$1,000'' and 
inserting in lieu thereof ``$500''.

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