to any candidate or the candidate’s authorized
committee for any election aggregating in ex-
cess of $1,000.
SEC. 2. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTION LIMITA-
TION ON CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PERSONS
OTHER THAN LOCAL INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS.
Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a), is amended by adding at the
end the following new subsection:
‘‘(i)(1) A candidate for the office of Representative
in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress
may not, with respect to a reporting period for an election,
accept contributions from persons other than local individ-
ual residents totaling in excess of the total of contributions
accepted from local individual residents.
‘‘(2) As used in this subsection, the term ‘local indi-
vidual resident’ means an individual who resides in the
congressional district involved.
‘‘(3)(A) Any candidate who accepts contributions that
exceed the limitation under this subsection with respect
to the pre-election report period or the post-election report
period shall pay to the Commission, for deposit in the
Treasury, an amount equal to 5 times the amount of the
excess contributions plus a civil penalty in an amount de-
termined by the Commission.
‘‘(B) Any candidate who accepts contributions that
exceed the limitation under this subsection with respect
to a period other than a period referred to in subpara-
graph (A) shall pay to the Commission, for deposit in the
Treasury, an amount equal to 3 times the amount of the
excess contributions.
‘‘(C) Each report under section 304(a)(6) shall in-
clude a certification by the treasurer of the committee that
the contributions reported do not exceed the limitation
under this subsection.’’.
SEC. 3. EXPENDITURE LIMITATION OF $600,000 FOR EACH
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CANDIDATE.
Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a), as amended by section 2, is fur-
ther amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
a candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate
or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress may not make
expenditures of more than $600,000 with respect to a gen-
eral election, including any primary election related to
such general election.’’.
SEC. 4. PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION LIMITATION OF $100,000
FOR EACH HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
CANDIDATE.
Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a), as amended by sections 2 and
3, is further amended by adding at the end the following
new subsection:
‘‘(k) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act,
a candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate
or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress may not make
personal contributions of more than $100,000 with respect
to a general election, including any primary election relat-
ed to such general election.’’.
SEC. 5. BAN ON INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES IN HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES ELECTIONS.
Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of
1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et seq.), as amended by section 1,
is further amended by adding at the end the following new
section:
‘‘BAN ON INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES IN HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES ELECTIONS
‘‘SEC. 324. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, no person may make any independent expendi-
ture with respect to an election for the office of Represent-
ative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the
Congress.’’.
SEC. 6. BAN ON SOFT MONEY IN ELECTIONS FOR FEDERAL
OFFICE.
Section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act
of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (8), by
striking out ‘‘include—’’ in the matter before clause
(i) and all that follows through the end of the sub-
paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘include the
value of services provided without compensation by
any individual who volunteers on behalf of a can-
didate or political committee.’’;
(2) by striking out paragraph (9)(B);
(3) by redesignating paragraph (9)(A) as para-
graph (9); and
(4) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) of para-
graph (9), as so redesignated by paragraph (3) of
this subsection, as subparagraphs (A) and (B), re-
spectively.
SEC. 7. FRANKING PROVISIONS.
(a) LIMITATION
ON MASS MAILINGS DURING
AN
ELECTION YEAR.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (6) of section
3210(a) of title 39, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(G)(i) A Member of or Member-elect to the House
may not, during any even-numbered calendar year, mail
any mass mailing as franked mail which is postmarked
on or before the Tuesday next after the 1st Monday in
November of such year.
‘‘(ii) Nothing in clause (i) shall be considered to make
permissible, with respect to the portion of the year remain-
ing after the Tuesday referred to in such clause, the mail-
ing of any mass mailing which would be impermissible
under any other provision of law or any rule or regula-
tion.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph
(F) of section 3210(a)(6) of such title is amended by
striking ‘‘(A) and (C)’’ and inserting ‘‘(A), (C), and
(G),’’.
(b) DEFINITION OF A MASS MAILING.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (6) of section
3210(a) of title 39, United States Code, as amended
by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(H) For purposes of applying this section with re-
spect to a Member of or Member-elect to the House, sub-
paragraph (E) shall be deemed to be amended—
‘‘(i) by striking ‘500’ and inserting ‘25’; and
‘‘(ii) by striking ‘or’ at the end of clause (ii),
by striking the period at the end of clause (iii) and
inserting ‘; or’, and by adding after clause (iii) the
following:
‘‘ ‘(iv) in furtherance of the administrative du-
ties of the Member.’.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Subparagraph
(E) of section 3210(a)(6) of such title is amended
by striking ‘‘As used’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to sub-
paragraph (H), as used’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of
this Act and shall apply with respect to mail sent on or
after such date. For purposes of any determination as to
whether or not a mailing sent by a Member of or Member-
elect to the House of Representatives constitutes a mass
mailing, mail sent before such date shall be considered
separately from any mail sent on or after such date.
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