Title: Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our Elections Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our Elections Act
This bill requires political committees, when accepting a credit card contribution over the internet, to collect the credit card's verification value. The card's billing address must be in the United States unless the contributor is a U.S. citizen living outside of the United States, in which case the contributor must provide his or her voter registration address.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1422 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1422

  To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the 
acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain 
              unverified sources, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 28, 2019

 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Weber of Texas, Ms. Brownley 
     of California, Mr. Cooper, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Newhouse, and Mrs. 
 Kirkpatrick) 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 the 
acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain 
              unverified sources, 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 ``Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our 
Elections Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING DISCLOSURE OF CREDIT VERIFICATION VALUE AS CONDITION 
              OF ACCEPTANCE OF ONLINE CONTRIBUTIONS TO FEDERAL 
              ELECTION.

    (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:
    ``(j)(1) No political committee shall accept any Internet credit 
card contribution unless--
            ``(A) the individual or entity making such contribution is 
        required, at the time such individual makes such contribution, 
        to disclose the credit verification value of such credit card; 
        and
            ``(B)(i) the billing address associated with such credit 
        card is located in the United States; or
            ``(ii) in the case of a contribution made by an individual 
        who is a United States citizen living outside of the United 
        States, the individual provides the committee with the United 
        States mailing address the individual uses for voter 
        registration purposes.
    ``(2) Notwithstanding subsection (b) or (c), in the case of an 
Internet credit card contribution--
            ``(A) no later than 10 days after receiving the 
        contribution, the person who receives the contribution shall 
        forward to the treasurer such contribution, the name and 
        address of the person making the contribution, and the date of 
        receipt; and
            ``(B) the treasurer of a political committee shall keep an 
        account of the name and address of any person making any such 
        contribution, together with the date and amount of such 
        contribution by any person.
    ``(3) In this subsection, the term `Internet credit card 
contribution' means a contribution that--
            ``(A) is made using a credit card; and
            ``(B) is received through an Internet website.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to contributions made after the expiration of the 
180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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