No Political Funds for Personal Use Act

Bill: 114-hr-150
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2015-01-06
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation
Latest action: action_date: 2015-01-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>No Political Funds for Personal Use Act </b></p> <p> Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the use of campaign contributions to apply the prohibition against the conversion to personal use of contributions accepted by candidates also to contributions accepted by political committees.</p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 150 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 2015 Mr. Jones introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the prohibition against the conversion of contributions to personal use to contributions accepted by political committees.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the No Political Funds for Personal Use Act . 2. Application of prohibition against conversion of contributions to personal use to contributions accepted by political committees (a) Prohibiting Conversion to Personal Use Section 313(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30114(b) ) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting or a receipt of any other political committee after subsection (a) ; (2) in paragraph (2), by striking contribution or donation and inserting contribution, donation, or receipt ; and (3) in paragraph (2), by striking the candidate’s election campaign or individual’s duties as a holder of Federal office, and inserting the following: the candidate’s election campaign, the individual’s duties as a holder of Federal office, or the political committee’s political activities (as the case may be), . (b) Effective Date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to contributions or donations accepted on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.