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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4527 

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require certain 

campaign-related communications paid for by a corporation or labor 

organization to include a statement identifying the chief executive officer 

of the corporation or the president of the labor organization, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 27, 2010 

Mr. DRIEHAUS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on House Administration 

A BILL 

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to 

require certain campaign-related communications paid 

for by a corporation or labor organization to include 

a statement identifying the chief executive officer of the 

corporation or the president of the labor organization, 

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 ‘‘Corporate and Labor 

5 Electioneering Advertisement Reform Act’’ or the 

6 ‘‘CLEAR Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. STATEMENTS INCLUDED IN CAMPAIGN-RELATED 

2 COMMUNICATIONS FUNDED BY CORPORA3 TIONS OR LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 

4 (a) REQUIRING STATEMENT IDENTIFYING HEAD OF

5 CORPORATION OR ORGANIZATION.—Section 318(d) of the 

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

7 441d(d)) is amended— 

8 (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Any commu9 nication’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in para10 graph (3), any communication’’; and 

11 (2) by adding at the end the following new 

12 paragraph: 

13 ‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULES FOR COMMUNICATIONS

14 PAID FOR BY CORPORATIONS OR LABOR ORGANIZA15 TIONS.— 

16 ‘‘(A) DISCLOSURE STATEMENT RE17 QUIRED.—Any communication described in 

18 paragraph (3) of subsection (a) which is a cor19 porate communication or a labor organization 

20 communication and which is transmitted 

21 through radio or television shall include, in ad22 dition to the requirements of that paragraph, 

23 the disclosure statement described in subpara24 graph (C). 

25 ‘‘(B) METHOD OF CONVEYANCE OF STATE26 MENT.— 


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1 ‘‘(i) COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED

2 THROUGH RADIO.—In the case of a com3 munication to which this paragraph applies 

4 which is transmitted through radio, the 

5 disclosure statement described in subpara6 graph (C) shall be made by audio in a 

7 clearly spoken manner by the applicable in8 dividual. 

9 ‘‘(ii) COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED

10 THROUGH TELEVISION.—In the case of a 

11 communication to which this paragraph 

12 applies which is transmitted through tele13 vision, the disclosure statement described 

14 in subparagraph (C) shall be conveyed by 

15 an unobscured, full-screen view of the ap16 plicable individual, or by the applicable in17 dividual making the statement in voice18 over accompanied by a clearly identifiable 

19 photograph or similar image of the indi20 vidual. The statement, together with a 

21 clearly readable logo of the corporation or 

22 labor organization (as the case may be), if 

23 any, shall also appear in writing at the end 

24 of the communication in a clearly readable 

25 manner with a reasonable degree of color 


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1 contrast between the background and the 

2 printed statement and logo, for a period of 

3 at least 4 seconds. 

4 ‘‘(C) DISCLOSURE STATEMENT DE5 SCRIBED.—The disclosure statement described 

6 in this subparagraph is the following: ‘I am 

7 lllllll, and lllllll paid 

8 for this advertisement and approves its con9 tents.’, with— 

10 ‘‘(i) the first blank to be filled in with 

11 the name and title of the applicable indi12 vidual; and 

13 ‘‘(ii) the second blank to the filled in 

14 with the name of the corporation (in the 

15 case of a corporate communication) or the 

16 name of the labor organization (in the case 

17 of a labor organization communication). 

18 ‘‘(D) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph— 

19 ‘‘(i) the term ‘applicable individual’ 

20 means the chief executive officer of a cor21 poration (with respect to a corporate com22 munication) or the highest ranking officer 

23 of a labor organization (with respect to a 

24 labor organization communication); 


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1 ‘‘(ii) the term ‘corporate communica2 tion’ means a communication paid for in 

3 whole or in part by a corporation, other 

4 than a communication paid for in whole by 

5 a separate segregated fund established by 

6 a corporation under section 316(b)(2)(C); 

7 and 

8 ‘‘(iii) the term ‘labor organization 

9 communication’ means a communication 

10 paid for in whole or in part by a labor or11 ganization, other than a communication 

12 paid for in whole by a separate segregated 

13 fund established by a labor organization 

14 under section 316(b)(2)(C).’’. 

15 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 

16 subsection (a) shall apply with respect to communications 

17 made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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