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PUBLIC LAW 93-443-OCT. 15, 1974
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Public Law 93-443 AN ACT
To impose overall limitations on campaign expenditures and political contributions; to provide that each candidate for Federal office shall designate a principal campaign committee; to provide for a single reporting responsibility with respect to receipts and expenditures by certain political committees; to change the times for the filing of reports regarding campaign expenditures and political contributions; to provide for public financing of Presidential nominating conventions and Presidential primary elections; and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate arid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be. Federal Eieccited as the "Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974". A'°" Amendments TITLE I — C R I M I N A L CODE AMENDMENTS
of 1974. 2 USC 431 note.
L I M I T A T I O N S ON CONTRIBUTIONS A N D EXPENDITURES
SEC. 101. (a) Section 608 of title 18, United States Code, relating to limitations on contributions and expenditures, is amended by striking out subsections (b) and (c) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(b)(1) Except as otherwise provided by paragraphs (2) and (3), no person shall make contributions to any candidate with respect to any election for Federal office which, in the aggregate, exceed $1,000. " (2) No political committee (other than a principal campaign committee) shall make contributions to any candidate with respect to any election for Federal office which, in the aggregate, exceed $5,000. Contributions by the national committee of a political party serving as the principal campaign committee of a candidate for the office of President of the United States shall not exceed the limitation imposed by the preceding sentence with respect to any other candidate for Federal office. For purposes of this paragraph, the term 'political " P o l i t i c a l comcommittee' means an organization registered as a political commit- m i t t e e. " tee under section 303 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 for Post, p. 1276. a period of not less than 6 months which has received contributions from more than 50 persons and, except for any State political party organization, has made contributions to 5 or more candidates for Federal office. " (3) No individual shall make contributions aggregating more than $25,000 in any calendar year. For purposes of this paragraph, any contribution made in a year other than the calendar year in which the election is held with respect to which such contribution was made, is considered to be made during the calendar year in which such election is held. " (4) For purposes of this subsection— " (A) contributions to a named candidate made to any political committee authorized by such candidate, in writing, to accept contributions on his behalf shall be considered to be contributions made to such candidate; and " (B) contributions made to or for the benefit of any candidate nominated by a political party for election to the office of Vice President of the United States shall be considered to be contributions made to or for the benefit of the candidate of such party for election to the office of President of the United States. "(5) The limitations imposed by paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection shall apply separately with respect to each election, except that all elections held in any calendar year for the office of President of the United States (except a general election for such office) shall be considered to be one election.
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