[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2109 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2109

 To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require reports 
  filed under such Act to be filed electronically and to require the 
   Federal Election Commission to make such reports available to the 
                   public within 24 hours of receipt.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 8, 1997

   Mr. Cook 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 reports 
  filed under such Act to be filed electronically and to require the 
   Federal Election Commission to make such reports available to the 
                   public within 24 hours of receipt.

    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 ``Campaign Finance Sunshine Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. PROMOTING EXPEDITED AVAILABILITY OF FEC REPORTS.

    (a) Mandatory Electronic Filing.--Section 304(a)(11)(A) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(a)(11)(A)) is 
amended by striking ``permit reports required by'' and inserting 
``require reports under''.
    (b) Requiring Reports to be Publicly Available Within 24 Hours of 
Receipt.--Section 304 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 434(a)) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(d)(1) The Commission shall make the information contained in the 
reports submitted under this section available on the Internet and 
publicly available at the offices of the Commission as soon as 
practicable (but in no case later than 24 hours) after the information 
is received by the Commission.
    ``(2) In this subsection, the term `Internet' means the 
international computer network of both Federal and non-Federal 
interoperable packet-switched data networks.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to reports 
for periods beginning on or after January 1, 1999.
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