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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4819 
To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit nonparty 
multicandidate political committees from making contributions in support 
of campaigns for election for Federal office, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 28, 2006 
Mr. LEACH 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 nonparty multicandidate political committees 
from making contributions in support of campaigns for 
election for Federal office, 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; FINDINGS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘PAC Elimination Act’’. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Congress now faces a crisis of public con-
fidence about its ability to conduct the people’s busi-
ness. 
(2) Members of Congress, their relatives, lobby-
ists, insider-controlled nonprofit organizations, and 
interest groups have been accused of acting surrep-
titiously and in concert to enrich themselves at the 
expense of the public. 
(3) A government of the people, by the people, 
and for the people cannot be a government where in-
fluence is purchasable. 
(4) Political action committees in particular 
represent a narrow fraction of the public viewpoint 
and generally have few ties, if any, to the State or 
district from which the member of Congress is elect-
ed. 
(5) The primary recipients of PAC contribu-
tions are incumbents, particularly the most powerful 
members of Congress. 
(6) The public objects to the establishment of 
a new political class, a privileged group with perks, 
amenities, and job security unavailable to average 
Americans. The public also objects to tilting the 
electoral landscape to the advantage of a few. 
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(7) If Congress fails to respond appropriately to 
limit the costs of elections and the perks of power, 
it will become a legislative body in which the small 
businessman, the farmer, the day laborer, and the 
stay-at-home parent are only secondarily rep-
resented. 
(8) Campaign finance reform is the unfinished 
business of a Congress in disrepute. 
SEC. 2. BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL ACTION COM-
MITTEES IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 
(a) BAN ON PACS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Title III of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 431 et 
seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new section: 
‘‘BAN ON ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES 
‘‘SEC. 325. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, no person other than an individual or a political 
committee may make contributions, solicit or receive con-
tributions, or make expenditures for the purpose of influ-
encing an election for Federal office.’’. 
(2) REVISION OF DEFINITION OF POLITICAL COM-
MITTEE.—Section 301(4) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 431(4)) 
is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) The term ‘political committee’ means— 
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‘‘(A) the principal campaign committee of a 
candidate; 
‘‘(B) any national, State, or district committee 
of a political party, including any subordinate com-
mittee thereof; 
‘‘(C) any local committee of a political party 
which— 
‘‘(i) receives contributions aggregating in 
excess of $5,000 during a calendar year, 
‘‘(ii) makes payments exempted from the 
definition of contribution or expenditure under 
paragraph (8) or (9) aggregating in excess of 
$5,000 during a calendar year, or 
‘‘(iii) makes contributions or expenditures 
aggregating in excess of $1,000 during a cal-
endar year; and 
‘‘(D) any committee jointly established by a 
principal campaign committee and any committee 
described in subparagraph (B) or (C) for the pur-
pose of conducting joint fundraising activities.’’. 
(b) RULES APPLICABLE WHEN BAN NOT IN EF-
FECT.—For purposes of the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971, during any period after the effective date 
of this Act in which the limitation on making contributions 
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under section 325 of that Act (as added by subsection (a)) 
is not in effect— 
(1) the amendments made by subsection (a) 
shall not be in effect; and 
(2) the limitation amount under section 
315(a)(2)(A) of such Act shall be $1,000. 
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS ON CONTRIBUTIONS BY 
POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. 
(a) ALTERNATIVE
LIMITATION
ON
AGGREGATE 
AMOUNT OF CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY MULTICANDIDATE 
COMMITTEE TO ANY CANDIDATE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 315(a)(2)(A) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 
441a(a)(2)(A)) is amended by striking the semicolon 
at the end and inserting the following: ‘‘, or an 
amount equal to 10 percent of the aggregate amount 
of contributions received by the candidate and the 
committees from all sources, whichever is lesser;’’. 
(2) RETURN
OF
EXCESS
CONTRIBUTIONS
BY 
CANDIDATES.—Section 315(f) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 
441a(f)) is amended— 
(A) 
by 
striking 
‘‘(f)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘(f)(1)’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
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‘‘(2) A candidate (or the authorized committees of a 
candidate) who receives a contribution from a multi-
candidate political committee in excess of the amount al-
lowed under subsection (a)(2)(A) shall return the amount 
of such excess contribution to the contributor.’’. 
(b) LIMITATION ON AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF CON-
TRIBUTIONS MADE BY MULTICANDIDATE COMMITTEE TO 
ALL CANDIDATES.—Section 315(a) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 
441a(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new paragraph: 
‘‘(9) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
during each two-year period beginning on January 1 of 
an odd-numbered year, the total amount of contributions 
of a nonparty multicandidate political committee to all 
candidates for Federal office and their authorized political 
committees shall not exceed $500,000.’’. 
SEC. 4. REQUIRING NOT LESS THAN 80 PERCENT OF CAN-
DIDATE FUNDS TO COME FROM IN-STATE IN-
DIVIDUALS. 
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: 
‘‘(k) PERCENTAGE OF CANDIDATE CONTRIBUTIONS 
REQUIRED TO COME FROM IN-STATE INDIVIDUALS.— 
With respect to each reporting period for an election, not 
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less than 80 percent of the total of contributions accepted 
by a candidate shall be from individuals— 
‘‘(1) who are residents of the State involved or 
the State in which the Congressional district in-
volved is located, in the case of a candidate for the 
office of Senator or Representative in the Congress; 
or 
‘‘(2) who are residents of the jurisdiction the 
candidate seeks to represent, in the case of a can-
didate for the office of Delegate or Resident Com-
missioner to the Congress.’’. 
SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by this Act shall apply with 
respect to elections occurring after December 2006. 
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