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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3019
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the use
of soft money by political parties, to permit individuals to elect to
not have payroll deductions used for political activities, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 9, 1997
Mrs. LINDA SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on House Oversight, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to
prohibit the use of soft money by political parties, to
permit individuals to elect to not have payroll deductions
used for political activities, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Anti-Money Launder-
ing and Paycheck Accountability Act’’.
SEC. 2. BAN ON NON-FEDERAL FUNDS OF POLITICAL PAR-
TIES.
Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.) is amended by adding at the
end the following new section:
‘‘BAN ON USE NON-FEDERAL FUNDS OF POLITICAL
PARTIES
‘‘SEC. 323. (a) BAN DESCRIBED.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise pro-
vided in this section, no funds may be solicited, con-
tributed, or expended by any political party commit-
tee for purposes of any activity influencing an elec-
tion for Federal office (without regard to whether
the activity involved also influences any other elec-
tion) unless the funds are subject to the limitations,
prohibitions, and reporting requirements of this Act.
‘‘(2) EXAMPLES OF ACTIVITIES COVERED.—For
purposes of paragraph (1), the following activities
shall be considered to be examples of activities influ-
encing an election for Federal office:
‘‘(A) Voter registration.
‘‘(B) Absentee ballot programs.
‘‘(C) Get-out-the-vote programs.
‘‘(D) Generic campaign activity.
‘‘(E) The making or disseminating of any
communication which identifies (by name, like-
ness, or representation) any candidate for elec-
tion for Federal office.
‘‘(b) POLITICAL PARTY COMMITTEE DEFINED.—For
purposes of this section, the term ‘political party commit-
tee’ means a political committee which is a national, State,
district, or local political party committee (including any
subordinate committee thereof).’’.
SEC. 3. PERMITTING INDIVIDUALS TO ELECT TO NOT HAVE
PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS USED FOR POLITICAL
ACTIVITIES.
Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.), as amended by section 2,
is further amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
‘‘PERMITTING INDIVIDUALS TO ELECT TO NOT HAVE
PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS USED FOR POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
‘‘SEC. 324. (a) RIGHT OF INDIVIDUALS TO MAKE
ELECTION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—No amounts withheld from
an individual’s wages or salary during a month may
be used by any person receiving the withheld
amounts for any political activity if the individual
has in effect an election to prohibit the withholding
of such amounts during the month for such activi-
ties.
‘‘(2) PERIOD FOR WHICH ELECTION IS IN EF-
FECT.—Except as provided in paragraph (3), an in-
dividual’s election to prohibit the withholding of
amounts for political activities shall be in effect for
all months beginning after the expiration of the 30-
day period which begins on the date the individual
notifies the person involved of the election.
‘‘(3) RIGHT OF REVOCATION AND RENEWAL.—
An individual with an election in effect under para-
graph (1) may revoke the election at any time, and
the election shall no longer be in effect beginning
with the first month which begins after the expira-
tion of the 30-day period which begins on the date
the individual notifies the person involved of the rev-
ocation of the election. An individual who revokes an
election under this paragraph may at any time
renew the election in accordance with paragraphs (1)
and (2).
‘‘(b) INFORMATION PROVIDED
BY WITHHOLDING
PERSON
TO NEW EMPLOYEES
AND MEMBERS.—Each
person who first withholds wages or salary from an indi-
vidual after December 1, 1998, shall provide the individual
(at the time the person first withholds wages or salary
from the individual) with a statement explaining the indi-
vidual’s right under this section to have an election in ef-
fect and to revoke the election.
‘‘(c) POLITICAL ACTIVITY DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘political activity’ means—
‘‘(1) attempting to influence legislation;
‘‘(2) participating or intervening in (including
the publishing or distributing of statements) any po-
litical campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to)
any candidate for public office; or
‘‘(3) influencing or attempting to influence the
selection, nomination, election, or appointment of
any individual to any Federal, State, or local public
office or to any office in a political party, committee,
association or fund.’’.
SEC. 4. REQUIRING REPORTING WITHIN 24 HOURS OF ALL
CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED WITHIN 20 DAYS
OF ELECTION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 304(a)(6)(A) of the Fed-
eral Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C.
434(a)(6)(A)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(6)(A) Each political committee shall notify the Sec-
retary or the Commission, and the Secretary of State, as
appropriate, in writing, of any contribution received by the
committee during the period which begins on the 20th day
before an election and ends at the time the polls close for
such election. This notification shall be made within 24
hours (or, if earlier, by midnight of the day on which the
contribution is deposited) after the receipt of such con-
tribution and shall include the name of the candidate and
the office sought by the candidate, the identification of
the contributor, and the date of receipt and amount of
the contribution.’’.
(b) 
AVAILABILITY
OF
INFORMATION
ON
INTERNET.—Section 304(a)(6) of such Act (2 U.S.C.
434(a)(6)) is amended by adding at the end the following
new subparagraph:
‘‘(C)(i) The Commission shall make the information
contained in the reports submitted under this paragraph
available on the Internet and publicly available at the of-
fices of the Commission as soon as practicable (but in no
case later than 24 hours) after the information is received
by the Commission.
‘‘(ii) In this subparagraph, the term ‘Internet’ means
the international computer network of both Federal and
non-Federal interoperable packet-switched data net-
works.’’.
SEC. 5. MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION AGAINST SOLICI-
TATION OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY
FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN FEDERAL BUILD-
INGS.
(a) SOLICITATION OF NON-FEDERAL FUNDS.—Sec-
tion 607 of title 18, United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘within the
meaning of section 301(8) of the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(c) In this section, the term ‘contribution’ means
any payment of any gift, subscription, loan, advance, or
deposit of money or anything of value made in support
of the activities of a political committee established and
maintained by a national political party or the party, or
otherwise made for purposes of influencing directly or in-
directly any election for Federal office.’’.
(b) CLARIFICATION OF APPLICABILITY TO SOLICITA-
TION OF PERSONS OUTSIDE OF BUILDING AND PERSONS
WHO ARE NOT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.—Section 607(a)
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking
the period at the end of the first sentence and inserting
the following: ‘‘, without regard to whether such person
or the person to whom the solicitation is directed is men-
tioned in such section, or to whether the person to whom
the solicitation is directed is in such room, building, navy
yard, fort, or arsenal at the time the solicitation is made.’’.
(c) TREATMENT OF ALL AREAS OF WHITE HOUSE
AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL MANSION AS FEDERAL BUILD-
ING.—The first sentence of section 607(a) of title 18,
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘any room
or building’’ and inserting ‘‘any room in the White House
(including the Executive Residence) or the official resi-
dence of the Vice President, or in any room or building’’.
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except where otherwise provided, the amendments
made by this Act shall apply with respect to elections oc-
curring after December 1998.
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