(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘OTHERS’’ 
and inserting ‘‘CERTAIN
POLITICAL
COMMIT-
TEES’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘which (except to the ex-
tent provided in the last sentence of this para-
graph) is paid for by a political committee (in-
cluding a political committee of a political 
party) and’’ after ‘‘subsection (a)’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘or other person’’ each 
place it appears; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘This paragraph does not apply to a commu-
nication paid for in whole or in part with a pay-
ment which is treated as a campaign-related 
disbursement under section 324 and with re-
spect to which a covered organization files a 
statement under such section.’’. 
(2) SPECIAL DISCLAIMER REQUIREMENTS FOR 
CERTAIN
COMMUNICATIONS.—Section 318 of such 
Act (2 U.S.C. 441d) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(e) COMMUNICATIONS BY OTHERS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Any communication de-
scribed in paragraph (3) of subsection (a) which is 
transmitted through radio or television (other than 
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a communication to which subsection (d)(2) applies) 
shall include, in addition to the requirements of such 
paragraph, the following: 
‘‘(A) The individual disclosure statement 
described in paragraph (2)(A) (if the person 
paying for the communication is an individual) 
or the organizational disclosure statement de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(B) (if the person pay-
ing for the communication is not an individual). 
‘‘(B) If the communication is transmitted 
through television and is paid for in whole or in 
part with a payment which is treated as a cam-
paign-related disbursement under section 324, 
the Top Five Funders list (if applicable), un-
less, on the basis of criteria established in regu-
lations issued by the Commission, the commu-
nication is of such short duration that including 
the Top Five Funders list in the communication 
would constitute a hardship to the person pay-
ing for the communication by requiring a dis-
proportionate amount of the content of the 
communication to consist of the Top Five 
Funders list. 
‘‘(C) If the communication is transmitted 
through radio and is paid for in whole or in 
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part with a payment which is treated as a cam-
paign-related disbursement under section 324, 
the Top Two Funders list (if applicable), un-
less, on the basis of criteria established in regu-
lations issued by the Commission, the commu-
nication is of such short duration that including 
the Top Two Funders list in the communication 
would constitute a hardship to the person pay-
ing for the communication by requiring a dis-
proportionate amount of the content of the 
communication to consist of the Top Two 
Funders list. 
‘‘(2) DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS DESCRIBED.— 
‘‘(A) INDIVIDUAL
DISCLOSURE
STATE-
MENTS.—The individual disclosure statement 
described in this subparagraph is the following: 
‘I am llllllll, and I approve this 
message.’, with the blank filled in with the 
name of the applicable individual. 
‘‘(B) 
ORGANIZATIONAL
DISCLOSURE 
STATEMENTS.—The organizational disclosure 
statement described in this subparagraph is the 
following: 
‘I 
am 
llllllll, 
the 
llllllll of llllllll, and 
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llllllll approves this message.’, 
with— 
‘‘(i) the first blank to be filled in with 
the name of the applicable individual; 
‘‘(ii) the second blank to be filled in 
with the title of the applicable individual; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the third and fourth blank each 
to be filled in with the name of the organi-
zation or other person paying for the com-
munication. 
‘‘(3) METHOD
OF
CONVEYANCE
OF
STATE-
MENT.— 
‘‘(A) 
COMMUNICATIONS
TRANSMITTED 
THROUGH RADIO.—In the case of a communica-
tion to which this subsection applies which is 
transmitted through radio, the disclosure state-
ments required under paragraph (1) shall be 
made by audio by the applicable individual in a 
clearly spoken manner. 
‘‘(B) 
COMMUNICATIONS
TRANSMITTED 
THROUGH TELEVISION.—In the case of a com-
munication to which this subsection applies 
which is transmitted through television, the in-
formation required under paragraph (1)— 
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‘‘(i) shall appear in writing at the end 
of the communication or in a crawl along 
the bottom of the communication in a 
clearly readable manner, with a reasonable 
degree of color contrast between the back-
ground and the printed statement, for a 
period of at least 6 seconds; and 
‘‘(ii) shall also be conveyed by an 
unobscured, full-screen view of the applica-
ble individual or by the applicable indi-
vidual making the statement in voice-over 
accompanied by a clearly identifiable pho-
tograph or similar image of the individual, 
except in the case of a Top Five Funders 
list. 
‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) APPLICABLE INDIVIDUAL.—The term 
‘applicable individual’ means, with respect to a 
communication to which this subsection ap-
plies— 
‘‘(i) if the communication is paid for 
by an individual, the individual involved; 
‘‘(ii) if the communication is paid for 
by a corporation, the chief executive officer 
of the corporation (or, if the corporation 
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does not have a chief executive officer, the 
highest ranking official of the corporation); 
‘‘(iii) if the communication is paid for 
by a labor organization, the highest rank-
ing officer of the labor organization; and 
‘‘(iv) if the communication is paid for 
by any other person, the highest ranking 
official of such person. 
‘‘(B) COVERED ORGANIZATION AND CAM-
PAIGN-RELATED
DISBURSEMENT.—The terms 
‘campaign-related disbursement’ and ‘covered 
organization’ have the meaning given such 
terms in section 324. 
‘‘(C) TOP FIVE FUNDERS LIST.—The term 
‘Top Five Funders list’ means, with respect to 
a communication paid for in whole or in part 
with a payment which is treated as a campaign- 
related disbursement under section 324, a list 
of the five persons who provided the largest 
payments of any type in an aggregate amount 
equal to or exceeding $10,000 which are re-
quired under section 324(a) to be included in 
the reports filed by a covered organization with 
respect to such communication during the 12- 
month period ending on the date of the dis-
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