Campaign Reform and Citizen Participation Act of 2001

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Campaign Reform and Citizen Participation Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) establish specified restrictions on soft money of national political parties, including a $75,000 per donor annual limit; (2) increase specified contribution limits and related indexing; (3) extend to national committees of a political party the current exemption of State and local political party committee costs of volunteer campaign materials from treatment as contributions and expenditures; and (4) require disclosure of information on certain communications broadcast prior to election, and on targeted mass communications.
Congress
107
Number
HR - 2360
Introduced on
2001-06-28
# Amendments
0
Sponsors
+5
Cosponsors
+5

Variations and Revisions

7/10/2001
Text
PDF

Status of Legislation

Bill Introduced
Introduced to House
House to Vote
Introduced to Senate
Senate to Vote

Purpose and Summary

Campaign Reform and Citizen Participation Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) establish specified restrictions on soft money of national political parties, including a $75,000 per donor annual limit; (2) increase specified contribution limits and related indexing; (3) extend to national committees of a political party the current exemption of State and local political party committee costs of volunteer campaign materials from treatment as contributions and expenditures; and (4) require disclosure of information on certain communications broadcast prior to election, and on targeted mass communications.
Alternative Names
Official Title as IntroducedTo amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to restrict the use of non-Federal funds by national political parties, to revise the limitations on the amount of certain contributions which may be made under such Act, to promote the availability of information on communications made with respect to campaigns for Federal elections, and for other purposes.
Policy Areas
Government Operations and Politics
Potential Impact
Campaign contributors•
Campaign funds•
Congress•
Congressional candidates•
Congressional elections•
Economics and Public Finance•
Fund raising•
Government paperwork•
Indexing (Economic policy)•
Political advertising•
Political parties•
Presidential candidates•
Presidential elections•
Radio in politics•
Science, Technology, Communications•
Soft money•
Television in politics•
Vice Presidential candidates•
Volunteer workers in politics•
Voter registration•
Voter turnout

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Latest Summary11/28/2006
Campaign Reform and Citizen Participation Act of 2001 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) establish specified restrictions on soft money of national political parties, including a $75,000 per donor annual limit; (2) increase sp...
Latest Action7/10/2001
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 74.