Title: OMAR Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Obstructing Monetary Allocations to Relatives Act or the OMAR Act
This bill prohibits a candidate for election to federal office from using amounts contributed to the candidate's campaign to make payments to vendors owned or controlled by an immediate family member of the candidate.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6659 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6659

   To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit a 
     candidate for election for Federal office from using amounts 
contributed to the candidate's campaign to make payments to any vendor 
  owned or controlled by an immediate family member of the candidate.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 1, 2020

  Mr. Steube 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 prohibit a 
     candidate for election for Federal office from using amounts 
contributed to the candidate's campaign to make payments to any vendor 
  owned or controlled by an immediate family member of the candidate.

    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 ``Obstructing Monetary Allocations to 
Relatives Act'' or the ``OMAR Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING USE OF CAMPAIGN FUNDS FOR PAYMENTS TO VENDORS OWNED 
              OR CONTROLLED BY IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER OF CANDIDATE.

    (a) Prohibition.--Section 313(b) of the Federal Election Campaign 
Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30114(b)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
            ``(3) Treatment of payments to vendors owned or controlled 
        by immediate family member of candidate as conversion.--
                    ``(A) In general.--For purposes of paragraph (1), a 
                contribution to an authorized committee of a candidate 
                shall be considered to be converted to the personal use 
                of the candidate if the contribution is used to make a 
                payment to a vendor which is owned or controlled by an 
                immediate family member of the candidate.
                    ``(B) Determination of ownership and control.--For 
                purposes of subparagraph (A), a vendor shall be 
                considered to be owned or controlled by an immediate 
                family member of the candidate if the immediate family 
                member--
                            ``(i) is a member of the board of directors 
                        or similar governing body of the vendor; or
                            ``(ii) directly or indirectly owns or 
                        controls 51 percent or more of the voting 
                        shares of the vendor.
                    ``(C) Immediate family member defined.--In this 
                paragraph, the term `immediate family member' means, 
                with respect to a candidate, a father, mother, son, 
                daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, father-in-
                law, or mother-in-law.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to payments made on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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