[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2190 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2190

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide that 
 multicandidate political committee contributions to a candidate in a 
  Senate or House of Representatives election may constitute only one-
     third of the total of contributions accepted by the candidate.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 19, 1993

Mr. Smith of Texas 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 provide that 
 multicandidate political committee contributions to a candidate in a 
  Senate or House of Representatives election may constitute only one-
     third of the total of contributions accepted by the candidate.

    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 ``Fairness in Campaign Finance Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON ACCEPTANCE OF MULTICANDIDATE POLITICAL COMMITTEE 
              CONTRIBUTIONS BY CANDIDATES IN SENATE AND HOUSE OF 
              REPRESENTATIVES ELECTIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(i)(1) A candidate for the office of Senator or Representative 
in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress may not 
accept a multicandidate political committee contribution with respect 
to an election if the amount of the multicandidate political committee 
contribution plus the total of multicandidate political committee 
contributions previously accepted during the same calendar quarter 
exceeds one-third of the sum of the multicandidate political committee 
contribution and the total of contributions previously accepted from 
all sources during that calendar quarter.
    ``(2) In each report of contributions under this Act, a candidate 
referred to in paragraph (1) shall certify compliance with this 
subsection.
    ``(3) As used in this subsection, the term `multicandidate 
political committee' has the meaning given that term in subsection 
(a)(4).''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to elections held after November 8, 1994.

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