    [United States Senate Manual, 116th Congress]
    [S. Doc. 116-1]
    [Cleaves Manual of Conferences and Conference Reports]
    [Pages 514-515]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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                               TITLE 52--VOTING AND ELECTIONS

                           Chapter 301--FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS

           425  Sec. 30111. Administrative provisions
                (a) Duties of Commission

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                (d) Rules, regulations, or forms; issuance, procedures
                    applicable, etc.
                    (1) Before prescribing any rule, regulation, or form
                under this section or any other provision of this Act, the
                Commission shall transmit a statement with respect to such
                rule, regulation, or form to the Senate and the House of
                Representatives, in accordance with this subsection. Such
                statement shall set forth the proposed rule, regulation, or
                form, and shall contain a detailed explanation and
                justification of it.
                    (2) If either House of the Congress does not disapprove
                by resolution any proposed rule or regulation submitted by
                the Commission under this section within 30 legislative days
                after the date of the receipt of such proposed rule or
                regulation or within 10 legislative days after the date of
                receipt of such proposed form, the Commission may prescribe
                such rule, regulation, or form.
                    (3) For purposes of this subsection, the term
                ``legislative day'' means, with respect to statements
                transmitted to the Senate, any calendar day on which the
                Senate is in session, and with respect to statements
                transmitted to the House of Representatives, any calendar
                day on which the House of Representatives is in session.
                    (4) For purposes of this subsection, the terms ``rule''
                and ``regulation'' mean a provision or series of
                interrelated provisions stating a single, separable rule of
                law.
                    (5)(A) A motion to discharge a committee of the Senate
                from the consideration of a resolution relating to any such
                rule, regulation, or form or a motion to proceed to the
                consideration of such a resolution, is highly privileged and
                shall be decided without debate.
                    (B) Whenever a committee of the House of Representatives
                reports any resolution relating to any such form, rule or
                regulation, it is at any time thereafter in order (even
                though a previous motion to the same effect has been
                disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the
                resolution. The motion is highly privileged and is not
                debatable. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and
                is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the
                motion is agreed to or disagreed with.
                (e) Scope of protection for good faith reliance upon rules
                    or regulations
                    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person
                who relies upon any rule or regulation prescribed by the
                Commission in accordance with the provisions of this section
                and who acts in good faith in accordance with such rule or
                regulation shall not, as a result of such act,

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                be subject to any sanction provided by this Act or by
                chapter 95 or chapter 96 of title 26.
                (f) Promulgation of rules, regulations, and forms by
                    Commission and Internal Revenue Service; report to
                    Congress on cooperative efforts
                    In prescribing such rules, regulations, and forms under
                this section, the Commission and the Internal Revenue
                Service shall consult and work together to promulgate rules,
                regulations, and forms which are mutually consistent. The
                Commission shall report to the Congress annually on the
                steps it has taken to comply with this subsection. (Pub. L.
                92-225, Title III, Sec. 311, formerly Sec. 308, Feb. 7,
                1972, 86 Stat. 16; renumbered Sec. 316 and amended Pub. L.
                93-443, Title II, Sec. Sec. 208(a), (c)(7)-(10), 209(a)(1),
                (b), Oct. 15, 1974, 88 Stat. 1279, 1286, 1287; renumbered
                Sec. 315 and amended Pub. L. 94-283, Title I, Sec. Sec. 105,
                110, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 481, 486; renumbered Sec. 311
                and amended Pub. L. 96-187, Title I, Sec. Sec. 105(4), 109,
                Jan. 8, 1980, 93 Stat. 1354, 1362; Pub. L. 99-514, Sec. 2,
                Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 104-79, Sec. 3(c),
                Dec. 28, 1995, 109 Stat. 792; Pub. L. 107-252, Title VIII,
                Sec. 801(b), Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1726.)
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