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117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6494 
To prohibit the disbursement of funds to entities owned or controlled by 
individuals with executive or managerial authority over the operations 
of political committees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2022 
Mr. MALINOWSKI (for himself, Ms. PORTER, Mr. RASKIN, Mrs. WATSON 
COLEMAN, Mr. PHILLIPS, Mr. MCGOVERN, Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ, Mr. 
TAKANO, Ms. NORTON, and Ms. TLAIB) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on House Administration 
A BILL 
To prohibit the disbursement of funds to entities owned 
or controlled by individuals with executive or managerial 
authority over the operations of political committees, 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 ‘‘Stopping Corrupt Ac-
tors from Making Political Action Committees Act’’ or the 
‘‘SCAM PAC Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS TO EN-
TITIES OWNED OR CONTROLLED BY INDIVID-
UALS WITH AUTHORITY OVER OPERATIONS 
OF POLITICAL COMMITTEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 302 of the Federal Elec-
tion Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30102) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(j)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4), 
during a reporting period covered by a report filed by a 
political committee under section 304, the committee may 
not make disbursements to an entity owned or controlled 
in whole or in part by an individual, or by an immediate 
family member of an individual— 
‘‘(A) who is authorized to carry out executive or 
managerial authority over the operation of the com-
mittee; 
‘‘(B) who is authorized to solicit or disburse 
funds for or on behalf of the committee; or 
‘‘(C) who is an employee of the committee 
(whether paid or unpaid) and who provides the com-
mittee with professional services (other than ac-
counting or legal services) relating to the commit-
tee’s campaign or fundraising strategy. 
‘‘(2) A political committee may not employ or allow 
to volunteer on behalf of the committee an individual who 
owns or controls an entity that has accepted disburse-
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ments made from any political committee in violation of 
paragraph (1). 
‘‘(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to 
disbursements made by a political committee during the 
reporting period covered by a report filed by the committee 
under section 304 if the committee includes in the report 
a true and accurate certification, under penalty of perjury, 
that a majority of the funds disbursed by the committee 
during the period were for expenses other than adminis-
trative costs, fundraising costs, and salaries of employees 
of the committee. 
‘‘(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to 
the following: 
‘‘(A) An authorized committee of a candidate. 
‘‘(B) A committee of a political party. 
‘‘(C) A separate segregated fund of a corpora-
tion 
or 
labor 
organization 
under 
section 
316(b)(2)(C). 
‘‘(5) In this subsection, the term ‘immediate family 
member’ means, with respect to an individual, a parent, 
parent-in law, grandparent, child, child-in law, grandchild, 
spouse, or sibling.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to disbursements 
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made on or after the date that is 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
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