Title: Campaign Transparency Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Campaign Transparency Act
This bill eliminates the contribution amount threshold for reporting the identity of a person who contributes to political committees for federal elections. Currently, a person who contributes $200 or less per calendar year (or election cycle for authorized candidate committees) does not have to be identified by the committee in certain required reports.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3485 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3485

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate the 
     thresholds for reporting the identification of persons making 
  contributions to political committees with respect to elections for 
                            Federal office.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

   Mr. Kind introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to eliminate the 
     thresholds for reporting the identification of persons making 
  contributions to political committees with respect to elections for 
                            Federal office.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Campaign Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATION OF THRESHOLDS FOR REPORTING IDENTIFICATION OF 
              PERSONS MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICAL COMMITTEES IN 
              FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

    (a) Identification of Persons Making Contributions.--Section 
304(b)(3) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 
30104(b)(3)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``whose contribution 
        or contributions have an aggregate amount or value in excess of 
        $200 within the calendar year (or election cycle, in the case 
        of an authorized committee of a candidate for Federal office), 
        or in any lesser amount if the reporting committee should so 
        elect,'';
            (2) in subparagraph (F), by striking ``in an aggregate 
        amount or value in excess of $200 within the calendar year (or 
        election cycle, in the case of an authorized committee of a 
        candidate for Federal office)''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (G), by striking ``in an aggregate 
        value or amount in excess of $200 within the calendar year (or 
        election cycle, in the case of an authorized committee of a 
        candidate for Federal office)''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall apply 
with respect to reports required to be filed under section 304 of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30104) on or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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