I 
109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5839 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the estab-
lishment of leadership political action committees, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2006 
Mr. HEFLEY 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 
prohibit the establishment of leadership political action 
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 ‘‘Leadership PAC Pro-
hibition Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. PROHIBITING LEADERSHIP PACS. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—Section 302(e) of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 432(e)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
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‘‘(6)(A) A candidate for Federal office or an indi-
vidual holding Federal office may not directly or indirectly 
establish, finance, maintain, or control any Federal or 
non-Federal political committee other than a principal 
campaign committee of the candidate, an authorized com-
mittee, a committee of a political party, or other political 
committee designated in accordance with paragraph (3). 
A candidate for more than one Federal office may des-
ignate a separate principal campaign committee for each 
Federal office. 
‘‘(B) Nothing in subparagraph (A) may be construed 
to prohibit an individual holding Federal office who is a 
candidate for State or local office from establishing, fi-
nancing, maintaining, or controlling a political committee 
for the election of the individual to such State or local 
office.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 302(e)(3) 
of such Act (2 U.S.C. 432(e)(3)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(3) No political committee that supports or has sup-
ported more than one candidate may be designated as an 
authorized committee, except that— 
‘‘(A) a candidate for the office of President 
nominated by a political party may designate the na-
tional committee of such political party as the can-
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didate’s principal campaign committee, but only if 
that national committee maintains separate books of 
account with respect to its functions as a principal 
campaign committee; and 
‘‘(B) a candidate may designate a political com-
mittee established solely for the purpose of joint 
fundraising by such candidates as an authorized 
committee.’’. 
SEC. 3. TRANSITION FOR EXISTING COMMITTEES. 
(a) CONTINUATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS.—Notwith-
standing section 302(e)(6) of the Federal Election Cam-
paign Act of 1971 (as added by section 2(a)), a political 
committee which is established as of the date of the enact-
ment of this Act but which is prohibited under such sec-
tion may continue to make contributions during the 1-year 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(b) DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS.—Upon the expira-
tion of the 1-year period which begins on the date of the 
enactment of this Act, a political committee described in 
subsection (a) shall disburse its remaining funds by any 
of the following means: 
(1) Making contributions to an organization de-
scribed in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under sec-
tion 501(a) of such Code, so long as the organiza-
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tion is not established, maintained, financed, or con-
trolled directly or indirectly by any candidate for 
Federal office or any individual holding Federal of-
fice. 
(2) Making a contribution to the treasury of the 
United States. 
(3) Making contributions to the national, State, 
or local committees of a political party. 
(4) Making contributions not to exceed $1,000 
to candidates for elective office. 
(c) REPORT
OF
DISBURSEMENTS
TO
FEDERAL 
ELECTION COMMISSION.— 
(1) REPORT.—Not later than 48 hours after 
making any disbursements required under subsection 
(b), a political committee shall file a report with the 
Federal Election Commission describing each such 
disbursement and including the identification of the 
recipient of the disbursement. 
(2) ELECTRONIC FORM REQUIRED.—For pur-
poses of section 304(a)(11) of the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 (relating to the filing of re-
ports in electronic form), the report required under 
paragraph (1) shall be considered to be a report re-
quired by such Act to be filed with the Commission. 
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