To repeal the provisions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish separate contribution limits for contributions made to national parties to support Presidential nominating conventions, national party headquarters buildings, and recounts.

Bill: 113-hr-5887
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2014-12-16
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Political parties and affiliation
Latest action: action_date: 2014-12-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-12-16
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended by the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, to repeal certain limits on separate contributions by persons or multicandidate political committees to political committees of a national political party which are not the authorized political committees of any candidate. Specifies those contributions used to defray expenses for:</p> <ul> <li>a presidential nominating convention;</li> <li>the construction, purchase, renovation, operation, and furnishing of party headquarters buildings; and</li> <li>the preparation for and the conduct of election recounts, contests, and other legal proceedings.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 5887 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 16, 2014 Mr. Kilmer introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To repeal the provisions of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015, which amended the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to establish separate contribution limits for contributions made to national parties to support Presidential nominating conventions, national party headquarters buildings, and recounts.

1. Repeal of separate contribution limits for certain contributions made to national committees of political parties (a) Repeal Section 101 of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 is repealed, and any provision of law amended by such section shall be restored as if such section had not been enacted into law. (b) Effective Date The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015.