I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3585 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require personal 
disclosure statements in all third-party communications advocating the 
election or defeat of a candidate, to require the disclosure of identifying 
information within communications made through the Internet, to apply 
disclosure requirements to prerecorded telephone calls, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2011 
Mr. PRICE of North Carolina 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 personal disclosure statements in all third-party 
communications advocating the election or defeat of a 
candidate, to require the disclosure of identifying infor-
mation within communications made through the Inter-
net, to apply disclosure requirements to prerecorded tele-
phone calls, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stand By Every Ad 
Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. REQUIRING PERSONAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENTS 
IN EXPRESS ADVOCACY COMMUNICATIONS. 
(a) APPLICATION OF DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS 
TO
COMMUNICATIONS
CONSISTING
OF
FUNCTIONAL 
EQUIVALENT OF EXPRESS ADVOCACY.—Section 318(a) of 
the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441d(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘clearly identified can-
didate,’’ and inserting ‘‘clearly identified candidate or con-
sisting of the functional equivalent of express advocacy,’’. 
(b) REQUIRING STATEMENT IDENTIFYING HEAD OF 
ENTITY PAYING FOR COMMUNICATION.—Section 318(d) 
of such Act (2 U.S.C. 441d(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘Any commu-
nication’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as provided in para-
graph (3), any communication’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULES FOR EXPRESS ADVOCACY 
COMMUNICATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) PERSONAL DISCLOSURE STATEMENT 
REQUIRED.—Any communication described in 
paragraph (3) of subsection (a) which expressly 
advocates the election or defeat of a clearly 
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identified candidate, or which consists of the 
functional equivalent of express advocacy, and 
which is transmitted through radio or television 
shall include, in addition to the requirements of 
that paragraph— 
‘‘(i) the individual disclosure state-
ment described in subparagraph (C) (if the 
person paying for the communication is an 
individual) or the organizational disclosure 
statement described in subparagraph (D) 
(if the person paying for the communica-
tion is not an individual); and 
‘‘(ii) if the person who paid for the 
communication received any disbursement 
from another person for purposes of fi-
nancing the communication, a statement of 
the names of the persons providing the 
largest disbursements for such purposes, 
except that the number of persons identi-
fied in the statement may not exceed 5. 
‘‘(B) METHOD OF CONVEYANCE OF STATE-
MENT.— 
‘‘(i) COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED 
THROUGH RADIO.—In the case of a com-
munication to which this paragraph applies 
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which is transmitted through radio, the 
disclosure statements required under sub-
paragraph (A)— 
‘‘(I) shall be made by audio in a 
clearly spoken manner; and 
‘‘(II) in the case of the individual 
disclosure statement described in sub-
paragraph (C) or the organization dis-
closure statement described in sub-
paragraph (D), shall be made by the 
applicable individual. 
‘‘(ii) COMMUNICATIONS TRANSMITTED 
THROUGH TELEVISION.—In the case of a 
communication to which this paragraph 
applies which is transmitted through tele-
vision, the disclosure statements required 
under subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(I) shall appear in writing at 
the end of the communication in a 
clearly readable manner, with a rea-
sonable degree of color contrast be-
tween the background and the printed 
statement, for a period of at least 4 
seconds; and 
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