Close the Floodgates Act

Bill: 114-hr-154
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Kilmer, Derek [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2015-01-06
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Political parties and affiliation
Latest action: action_date: 2015-01-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H160)

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-01-06
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Close the Floodgates Act</b></p> <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 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 154 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 6, 2015 Mr. Kilmer (for himself, Mr. Cicilline , Mr. Himes , Mr. McDermott , Mr. Peters , Mr. Deutch , Ms. Bonamici , and Mr. Welch ) 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. Short title This Act may be cited as the Close the Floodgates Act . 2. Repeal of separate contribution limits for certain contributions made to national committees of political parties (a) Repeal Section 101 of Division N of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 ( Public Law 113–235 ; 128 Stat. 2772), is repealed, and any provision of law amended by such section shall be restored as if such section had not been enacted into law.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.