Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act

Bill: 115-s-298
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT]
Introduced: 2017-02-03
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

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Senate
Latest action: action_date: 2017-02-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-02-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act</b></p> <p> This bill amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports directly with the Federal Election Commission, instead of with the Senate as currently required.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 298 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 3, 2017 Mr. Tester (for himself, Mr. Cochran , Mr. Leahy , Mr. Grassley , Mrs. Murray , Mr. Wyden , Mr. Durbin , Mr. Reed , Ms. Collins , Mr. Carper , Ms. Cantwell , Ms. Murkowski , Mr. Menendez , Mr. Cardin , Mr. Sanders , Mrs. McCaskill , Ms. Klobuchar , Mr. Wicker , Mr. Udall , Mr. Warner , Mr. Bennet , Mrs. Gillibrand , Mr. Franken , Mr. Coons , Mr. Portman , Ms. Baldwin , Mr. Donnelly , Ms. Hirono , Mr. King , Ms. Heitkamp , Mr. Markey , Mr. Peters , Mr. Van Hollen , Ms. Duckworth , Ms. Hassan , and Mr. Daines ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration A BILL To require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act . 2. Filing by Senate candidates with Commission Section 302(g) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 ( 52 U.S.C. 30102(g) ) is amended to read as follows: (g) Filing with the commission All designations, statements, and reports required to be filed under this Act shall be filed with the Commission. .