[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5649 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5649

    To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any military 
   aircraft provided for the use of the President from being used to 
  transport a candidate for election for Federal office to a campaign 
                                 event.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 6, 2016

   Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Jody B. Hice of 
   Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit any military 
   aircraft provided for the use of the President from being used to 
  transport a candidate for election for Federal office to a campaign 
                                 event.

    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 Abusing the Presidential Plane 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING MILITARY AIRCRAFT PROVIDED FOR PRESIDENT FROM BEING 
              USED TO TRANSPORT CANDIDATES TO CAMPAIGN EVENTS.

    (a) Prohibition.--Subchapter I of chapter 134 of title 10, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2245a the following 
new section:
``Sec. 2246. Prohibiting use of certain aircraft to transport 
              candidates to campaign events
    ``(a) An aircraft under the jurisdiction of a military department 
which is made available for the use of the President may not be used to 
transport a candidate for election for Federal office to an event 
promoting the candidate's campaign for the election.
    ``(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to the use of an aircraft to 
transport the President or Vice President to an event promoting the 
President's or Vice President's campaign for re-election to the office 
of President or Vice President.
    ``(c) In this section, the terms `candidate', `election', and 
`Federal office' each have the meaning given such term in section 301 
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30101).''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections of subchapter I of 
chapter 134 of such title is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 2245a the following new item:

``2246. Prohibiting use of certain aircraft to transport candidates to 
                            campaign events.''.
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