To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to modernize certain reporting requirements for electioneering communications, and for other purposes.
This bill amends federal campaign finance law to require organizations that make "electioneering communications" — political ads that mention a candidate but stop short of explicit advocacy for or against them, typically run close to an election — to file their disclosure reports electronically. Currently, the law mandates electronic filing for campaign spending reports but does not clearly extend this requirement to electioneering communications, meaning some of these reports can still be filed on paper. By adding a specific reference to electioneering communications in the relevant section of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the bill closes this gap and modernizes the filing process. This change affects political committees, corporations, unions, and other groups that fund these types of election-related ads. The bill is a narrow, technical fix aimed at improving transparency and making campaign finance data more quickly accessible to the public and regulators through the Federal Election Commission's electronic systems.
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