Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act

Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require Senate candidates to file election-related designations, statements, and reports in electronic form.

Requires the Secretary of the Senate to forward a copy of any electronically filed designation, statement, or report to the Federal Election Commission within one working day (instead of the current two working days) after receiving it.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1508 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1508

  To require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and 
                      reports in electronic form.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 27, 2005

Mr. Feingold (for himself, Mr. McCain, and Mr. Cochran) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                        Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require Senate candidates to file designations, statements, and 
                      reports in electronic form.

    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 ``Senate Campaign Disclosure Parity 
Act''.

SEC. 2. SENATE CANDIDATES REQUIRED TO FILE ELECTION REPORTS IN 
              ELECTRONIC FORM.

    (a) In General.--Section 304(a)(11)(D) of the Federal Election 
Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 434(a)(11)(D)) is amended to read as 
follows:
                    ``(D) As used in this paragraph, the terms 
                `designation', `statement', or `report' mean a 
                designation, statement or report, respectively, which--
                            ``(i) is required by this Act to be filed 
                        with the Commission, or
                            ``(ii) is required under section 302(g) to 
                        be filed with the Secretary of the Senate and 
                        forwarded by the Secretary to the 
                        Commission.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--
            (1) Section 302(g)(2) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 432(g)(2)) is 
        amended by inserting ``or 1 working day in the case of a 
        designation, statement, or report filed electronically'' after 
        ``2 working days''.
            (2) Section 304(a)(11)(B) of such Act (2 U.S.C. 
        434(a)(11)(B)) is amended by inserting ``or filed with the 
        Secretary of the Senate under section 302(g)(1) and forwarded 
        to the Commission'' after ``Act''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to any designation, statement, or report required to be filed 
after the date of enactment of this Act.
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