[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2865 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2865

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit any 
 individual from making a contribution to a candidate for election for 
Federal office which is not accompanied by a written certification that 
 the contribution consists solely of personal funds of the individual.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 1997

   Mr. Fox of Pennsylvania 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 prohibit any 
 individual from making a contribution to a candidate for election for 
Federal office which is not accompanied by a written certification that 
 the contribution consists solely of personal funds of the individual.

    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 Full Disclosure Act of 
1998''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS WITHOUT 
              CERTIFICATION THAT CONTRIBUTION CONSISTS OF PERSONAL 
              FUNDS.

    (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:

  ``prohibiting contributions from individuals not certifying use of 
                             personal funds

    ``Sec. 323. No individual may make any contribution which is not 
accompanied by a written certification that the contribution consists 
solely of personal funds of the individual (or, in the case of an in-
kind contribution, a written certification that only personal funds of 
the individual were used to obtain the goods or services contributed), 
and no candidate for election for Federal office may knowingly accept 
any contribution from an individual who does not provide such written 
certification. Each written certification shall contain an 
acknowledgement that the individual is aware of the applicable 
penalties for falsification of the certification.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to elections occurring after January 1999.
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