I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1548 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require all political 
committees to notify the Federal Election Commission within 48 hours 
of receiving cumulative contributions of $1,000 or more from any contrib-
utor during a calendar year, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 15, 2017 
Mr. O’ROURKE 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 all political committees to notify the Federal 
Election Commission within 48 hours of receiving cumu-
lative contributions of $1,000 or more from any contrib-
utor during a calendar year, 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 ‘‘Real Time Trans-
parency Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. 48-HOUR NOTIFICATION REQUIRED FOR ALL POLIT-
ICAL COMMITTEES RECEIVING CUMULATIVE 
CONTRIBUTIONS OF $1,000 OR MORE DURING 
A YEAR FROM ANY CONTRIBUTOR. 
(a) NOTIFICATION.—Section 304(a)(6)(A) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
30104(a)(6)(A)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(A)(i) If a political committee receives an aggregate 
amount of contributions equal to or greater than $1,000 
from any contributor during a calendar year, the com-
mittee shall submit a notification to the Commission con-
taining the name of the committee (and, in the case of 
an authorized committee of a candidate, 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 contributions involved. 
‘‘(ii) If, at any time after a political committee is re-
quired to submit a notification under this subparagraph 
with respect to a contributor during a calendar year, the 
political committee receives additional contributions from 
that contributor during that year, the committee shall sub-
mit an additional notification under clause (i) with respect 
to such contributor each time the aggregate amount of the 
additional contributions received from the contributor dur-
ing the year equals or exceeds $1,000 (excluding the 
amount of any contribution for which information is re-
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quired to be included in a previous notification under this 
subparagraph). 
‘‘(iii) The political committee shall submit the notifi-
cation required under this subparagraph with respect to 
a contributor— 
‘‘(I) in the case of a notification described in 
clause (i), not later 48 hours after the date on which 
the aggregate amount of contributions received from 
the contributor during the calendar year first equals 
or exceeds $1,000; or 
‘‘(II) in the case of an additional notification 
described in clause (ii), not later than 48 hours after 
the date on which the aggregate amount of contribu-
tions received from the contributor during the cal-
endar year for which information was not already in-
cluded in a notification under this subparagraph 
first equals or exceeds $1,000. 
‘‘(iv) For purposes of this subparagraph, any amount 
transferred by a joint fundraising committee which is es-
tablished by an authorized committee of a candidate to 
any other authorized committee of that candidate shall be 
treated as a contribution by the joint fundraising com-
mittee to such authorized committee.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to contributions re-
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ceived by a political committee under the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 during 2017 or any succeeding 
year, except that nothing in such amendment may be con-
strued to require a political committee which does not re-
ceive contributions during the portion of 2017 which oc-
curs after the date of the enactment of this Act to meet 
the requirements of section 304(a)(6)(A) of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended by subsection 
(a). 
SEC. 3. FILING BY SENATE CANDIDATES WITH FEDERAL 
ELECTION COMMISSION. 
(a) MANDATORY
FILING
WITH
FEC.—Section 
302(g) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 
U.S.C. 30102(g)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(g) FILING WITH THE COMMISSION.—All designa-
tions, statements, and reports required to be filed under 
this Act shall be filed with the Commission.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to materials filed 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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