Title: SCAM PAC Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Stopping Corrupt Actors from Making Political Action Committees Act or the SCAM PAC Act
This bill prohibits political committees from disbursing funds to an entity that is owned or controlled by an individual, or the immediate family member of an individual, who has authority to carry out specified activities for the committee (e.g., soliciting funds) or is employed by the committee to provide it with professional services. Further, the bill prohibits a political committee from employing these individuals or allowing them to volunteer on its behalf if the related entity accepted funds from a political committee.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8304 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8304

 To prohibit the disbursement of funds to entities owned or controlled 
    by individuals with executive or managerial authority over the 
      operations of political committees, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 17, 2020

Mr. Malinowski (for himself and Mr. Gallagher) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
 To prohibit the disbursement of funds to entities owned or controlled 
    by individuals with executive or managerial authority over the 
      operations of political committees, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Stopping Corrupt Actors from Making 
Political Action Committees Act'' or the ``SCAM PAC Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS TO ENTITIES OWNED OR 
              CONTROLLED BY INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTHORITY OVER OPERATIONS 
              OF POLITICAL COMMITTEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 302 of the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30102) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection:
    ``(j)(1) A political committee may not make disbursements to an 
entity owned or controlled in whole or in part by an individual, or by 
an immediate family member of an individual--
            ``(A) who is authorized to carry out executive or 
        managerial authority over the operation of the committee;
            ``(B) who is authorized to solicit or disburse funds for or 
        on behalf of the committee; or
            ``(C) who is an employee of the committee (whether paid or 
        unpaid) and who provides the committee with professional 
        services (other than accounting or legal services) relating to 
        the committee's campaign or fundraising strategy.
    ``(2) A political committee may not employ or allow to volunteer on 
behalf of the committee an individual who owns or controls an entity 
that has accepted disbursements made from any political committee in 
violation of paragraph (1).
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `immediate family member' means, 
with respect to an individual, a parent, parent-in law, grandparent, 
child, child-in law, grandchild, spouse, or sibling.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to disbursements made on or after the date that is 
90 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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