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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2866
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require candidates
for election for the House of Representatives or the Senate to raise
at least 50 percent of their contributions from individuals residing in
the district or State involved, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 7, 1997
Mr. CALVERT (for himself, Mr. POMBO, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr.
GILCHREST, Mr. HORN, Mr. ROYCE, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. BILBRAY,
and Mr. GALLEGLY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on House Oversight
A BILL
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to
require candidates for election for the House of Rep-
resentatives or the Senate to raise at least 50 percent
of their contributions from individuals residing in the
district or State involved, 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 ‘‘Citizen Campaign Con-
trol Act of 1997’’.
SEC. 2. LIMITING AMOUNT OF CONGRESSIONAL CAN-
DIDATE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS
NOT RESIDING IN DISTRICT OR STATE IN-
VOLVED.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 315 of the Federal Elec-
tion 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 Senator or the
office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to, the Congress may not accept contributions
with respect to an election from persons other than local
individual residents totaling in excess of the aggregate
amount of contributions accepted from local individual
residents (as determined on the basis of the information
reported under section 304(d)).
‘‘(2) In determining the amount of contributions ac-
cepted by a candidate for purposes of this subsection, the
amounts of any contributions made by a political commit-
tee of a political party shall be allocated as follows:
‘‘(A) 50 percent of such amounts shall be
deemed to be contributions from local individual
residents.
‘‘(B) 50 percent of such amounts shall be
deemed to be contributions from persons other than
local individual residents.
‘‘(3) As used in this subsection, the term ‘local indi-
vidual resident’ means—
‘‘(A) with respect to an election for the office
of Senator, an individual who resides in the State in-
volved; and
‘‘(B) with respect to an election for the office
of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to, the Congress, an individual who resides
in the congressional district involved.’’.
(b) REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.—Section 304 of
such Act (2 U.S.C. 434) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) Each principal campaign committee of a can-
didate for the Senate or the House of Representatives
shall include the following information in the first report
filed under subsection (a)(2) which covers the period
which begins 19 days before an election and ends 20 days
after the election:
‘‘(1) The total contributions received by the
committee with respect to the election involved from
local individual residents (as defined in section
315(i)(3)), as of the last day of the period covered
by the report.
‘‘(2) The total contributions received by the
committee with respect to the election involved from
all persons, as of the last day of the period covered
by the report.’’.
(c) PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF LIMITS.—Section
309(d) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 437g(d)) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(4)(A) Any candidate who knowingly and willfully
accepts contributions in excess of any limitation provided
under section 315(i) shall be fined an amount equal to
the greater of 200 percent of the amount accepted in ex-
cess of the applicable limitation or (if applicable) the
amount provided in paragraph (1)(A).
‘‘(B) Interest shall be assessed against any portion
of a fine imposed under subparagraph (A) which remains
unpaid after the expiration of the 30-day period which be-
gins on the date the fine is imposed.’’.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with
respect to elections occurring after January 1999.
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