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House Bill 1341
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our Elections Act
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H. R. 1341 (Introduced-in-House)


115th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1341


To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit the acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain unverified sources, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

March 2, 2017

Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Babin, Mr. Barletta, Mr. Brooks of Alabama, Ms. Brownley of California, Mr. Capuano, Mrs. Comstock, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Duncan of South Carolina, Mr. Duncan of Tennessee, Miss González-Colón of Puerto Rico, Mr. Jones, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. Lamborn, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Pearce, Mr. Roskam, Ms. Sinema, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Yoho, and Mr. Gohmert) 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 prohibit the acceptance by political committees of online contributions from certain unverified sources, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Stop Foreign Donations Affecting Our Elections Act”.

SEC. 2. Requiring disclosure of credit verification value as condition of acceptance of online contributions to Federal election.

(a) In general.—Section 302 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30102) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(j) (1) No political committee shall accept any Internet credit card contribution unless—

“(A) the individual or entity making such contribution is required, at the time such individual makes such contribution, to disclose the credit verification value of such credit card; and

“(B) (i) the billing address associated with such credit card is located in the United States; or

“(ii) in the case of a contribution made by an individual who is a United States citizen living outside of the United States, the individual provides the committee with the United States mailing address the individual uses for voter registration purposes.

“(2) Notwithstanding subsection (b) or (c), in the case of an Internet credit card contribution—

“(A) no later than 10 days after receiving the contribution, the person who receives the contribution shall forward to the treasurer such contribution, the name and address of the person making the contribution, and the date of receipt; and

“(B) the treasurer of a political committee shall keep an account of the name and address of any person making any such contribution, together with the date and amount of such contribution by any person.

“(3) In this subsection, the term ‘Internet credit card contribution’ means a contribution that—

“(A) is made using a credit card; and

“(B) is received through an Internet website.”.

(b) Effective Date.—The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to contributions made after the expiration of the 180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.