H.R. 9354

Fair Elections Now Act

Sponsor: John B. Larson · 0 cosponsors

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I Fair elections financing of House election campaigns

Sec. 105. Treatment of coordinated expenditures by political party committees on behalf of participating candidates

(a) Revision of limitations. Section 315(d)(3) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 441a(d)) is amended—

(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respectively; and

(2) by inserting before subparagraph (B), as redesignated by paragraph (1), the following new subparagraph:

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(A) in the case of a candidate for election to the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress who is certified as a participating candidate under title V, the lesser of—

(i) 10 percent of the allocation that the participating candidate is eligible to receive for the general election under section 502(a); or

(ii) the amount which would (but for this subparagraph) apply with respect to such candidate under subparagraph (B);

(b) Conforming amendment. Section 315(d)(3) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 441a(d)(3)) is amended—

(1) in subparagraph (B) (as redesignated by subsection (a)), by inserting who is not certified as a participating candidate under title V after only one Representative; and

(2) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated by subsection (a)), by inserting who is not certified as a participating candidate under title V after any other State.

II Responsibilities of the Federal Election Commission

III Miscellaneous provisions