[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4177 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4177

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the 
acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain 
              unverified sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2015

    Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Brat, Mr. Buck, Mr. Duncan of South 
Carolina, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Gohmert, 
 Mr. Jones, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Messer, Mr. Pearce, Mr. 
Posey, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Salmon, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Amodei, 
  Mr. DesJarlais, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. 
    Rigell, and Mr. Babin) introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the 
acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain 
              unverified sources, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our 
Elections Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING DISCLOSURE OF CREDIT VERIFICATION VALUE AS CONDITION 
              OF ACCEPTANCE OF ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS TO FEDERAL 
              ELECTION.

    (a) In General.--Section 302 of the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30102) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(j)(1) No political committee shall accept any Internet credit 
card contribution unless--
                    ``(A) the individual or entity making such 
                contribution is required, at the time such individual 
                makes such contribution, to disclose the credit 
                verification value of such credit card; and
                    ``(B)(i) the billing address associated with such 
                credit card is located in the United States; or
                    ``(ii) in the case of a contribution made by an 
                individual who is a United States citizen living 
                outside of the United States, the individual provides 
                the committee with the United States mailing address 
                the individual uses for voter registration purposes.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding subsection (b) or (c), in the case of an 
Internet credit card contribution--
            ``(A) no later than 10 days after receiving the 
        contribution, the person who receives the contribution shall 
        forward to the treasurer such contribution, the name and 
        address of the person making the contribution, and the date of 
        receipt; and
            ``(B) the treasurer of a political committee shall keep an 
        account of the name and address of any person making any such 
        contribution, together with the date and amount of such 
        contribution by any person.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `Internet credit card 
contribution' means a contribution that--
            ``(A) is made using a credit card; and
            ``(B) is received through an Internet website.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to contributions made after the expiration of the 
180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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