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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 484 

To require additional disclosures relating to donations to the Presidential 

Inaugural Committee, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 13, 2019 

Ms. CORTEZ MASTO (for herself, Mr. WHITEHOUSE, Mr. MARKEY, Ms. KLOBUCHAR, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Ms. WARREN, Mrs. 

FEINSTEIN, and Mr. UDALL) introduced the following bill; which was 

read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

A BILL 

To require additional disclosures relating to donations to 

the Presidential Inaugural Committee, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Inaugural Committee 

5 Transparency Act of 2019’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN DONATIONS TO AND 

2 SPENDING BY THE PRESIDENTIAL INAU3 GURAL COMMITTEE. 

4 Section 510 of title 36, United States Code, is 

5 amended— 

6 (1) in subsection (b)— 

7 (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, and 

8 disclosing any disbursement made in an amount 

9 equal to or greater than $200 and the purpose 

10 of each disbursement’’ before the period at the 

11 end; and 

12 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

13 (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 

14 ‘‘and’’ at the end; 

15 (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

16 the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 

17 and’’; and 

18 (iii) by adding at the end the fol19 lowing: 

20 ‘‘(D) for any disbursement in an amount 

21 equal to or greater than $200 that is made, in22 cluding any such disbursement made after the 

23 end of the inaugural period— 

24 ‘‘(i) the name and address of the per25 son to whom the disbursement was made; 


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1 ‘‘(ii) the date on which the disburse2 ment was made; and 

3 ‘‘(iii) the total amount and purpose of 

4 the disbursement.’’; 

5 (2) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol6 lows: 

7 ‘‘(c) PROHIBITION.— 

8 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—It shall be unlawful— 

9 ‘‘(A) for an Inaugural Committee to solicit, 

10 accept, or receive a donation from a foreign na11 tional; 

12 ‘‘(B) for a person— 

13 ‘‘(i) to make a donation to an Inau14 gural Committee in the name of another 

15 person, or to knowingly authorize his or 

16 her name to be used to effect such a dona17 tion; or 

18 ‘‘(ii) to knowingly accept a donation 

19 to an Inaugural Committee made by a per20 son in the name of another person; 

21 ‘‘(C) for a foreign national to, directly or 

22 indirectly, make a donation, or make an express 

23 or implied promise to make a donation, to an 

24 Inaugural Committee; or 


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1 ‘‘(D) to convert a donation to an Inaugural 

2 Committee to personal use as described in para3 graph (3). 

4 ‘‘(2) DEFINITION OF FOREIGN NATIONAL.—In 

5 this subsection, the term ‘foreign national’ has the 

6 meaning given the term in section 319(b) of the 

7 Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 

8 441e(b)). 

9 ‘‘(3) CONVERSION OF DONATION TO PERSONAL

10 USE.—For purposes of paragraph (1)(D), a donation 

11 shall be considered to be converted to personal use 

12 if any part of the donated amount is used to fulfill 

13 a commitment, obligation, or expense of a person 

14 that would exist irrespective of the responsibilities of 

15 the Inaugural Committee.’’; and 

16 (3) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(d) REQUIREMENT.— 

18 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than the date 

19 that is 90 days after the date of the Presidential in20 augural ceremony, the committee shall disburse any 

21 remaining donated funds to an organization de22 scribed in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 

23 Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under sec24 tion 501(a) of such Code. 

25 ‘‘(2) EXTENSION.— 


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1 ‘‘(A) REQUEST.—Upon request from the 

2 Inaugural Committee, the Federal Election 

3 Commission may extend the 90-day period de4 scribed in paragraph (1). 

5 ‘‘(B) SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT.—In the 

6 case of an extension under subparagraph (A), 

7 the Inaugural Committee shall, not later than 

8 the last day of the extension period, file a sup9 plement to the report required under subsection 

10 (b)(1).’’. 

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