No Political Funds for Personal Use Act

No Political Funds for Personal Use Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 with respect to the use of campaign contributions to apply the prohibition against the conversion to personal use of contributions accepted by candidates also to contributions accepted by political committees.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3466 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3466

    To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the 
prohibition against the conversion of contributions to personal use to 
            contributions accepted by political committees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 13, 2013

 Mr. Jones (for himself, Mr. Price of North Carolina, and Mr. Scott of 
  Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to apply the 
prohibition against the conversion of contributions to personal use to 
            contributions accepted by political committees.

    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 ``No Political Funds for Personal Use 
Act''.

SEC. 2. APPLICATION OF PROHIBITION AGAINST CONVERSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS 
              TO PERSONAL USE TO CONTRIBUTIONS ACCEPTED BY POLITICAL 
              COMMITTEES.

    (a) Prohibiting Conversion to Personal Use.--Section 313(b) of the 
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (2 U.S.C. 439a(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or a receipt of any 
        other political committee'' after ``subsection (a)'';
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``contribution or 
        donation'' and inserting ``contribution, donation, or 
        receipt''; and
            (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ``the candidate's 
        election campaign or individual's duties as a holder of Federal 
        office,'' and inserting the following: ``the candidate's 
        election campaign, the individual's duties as a holder of 
        Federal office, or the political committee's political 
        activities (as the case may be),''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to contributions or donations accepted on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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