[United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
[S. Doc. 117-1]
[Cleaves Manual of Conferences and Conference Reports]
[Pages 521-522]
[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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