Firearms Owners Against Crime
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Institute for Legal, Legislative and Educational Action
Election restrictions with exemptions for unions.
Title: Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act
Subject: Congressional elections: Corporate finance and management: Elections, voting, political campaign regulation: Labor-management relations: Political advertising: Government operations and politics
Description: Restoring Confidence in Our Democracy Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to set forth special rules for electioneering communications, especially targeted communications, which national banks, corporations, and labor organizations are prohibited from paying for. Defines "targeted communications" as electioneering communications distributed from a television or radio broadcast station or provider of cable or satellite television service and, in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate for an office other than President or Vice President, is targeted to the relevant electorate. Prohibits independent expenditures by national banks, corporations, and labor organizations. Applies certain limitations on contributions made by any person to a political committee to any contribution to a political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with contribution or source prohibitions (or made to any account of a political committee established to accept such noncompliant donations or contributions).
Session: 113th Congress
Last Action: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Last Action Date: March 21, 2013
Link: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HN01338:@@@L&summ2=m&
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18 sponsors: Dingell, John D.; Cicilline, David N.; Conyers, John, Jr.; DeGette, Diana; DeLauro, Rosa L.; Edwards, Donna F.; Ellison, Keith; Grayson, Alan; Himes, James A.; Maloney, Carolyn B.; McGovern, James P.; Miller, George; Norton, Eleanor Holmes; Peters, Gary C.; Polis, Jared; Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch; Sarbanes, John P.; Slaughter, Louise McIntosh
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Mar 21 2013 | Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. |
| Type | Date | Federal Link | Text |
| Introduced | Mar 28 2013 | federal bill text | bill text |
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Chamber: H
Committee Name: House Administration
There have not been any votes on this bill