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handle is hein.crs/crsmthzzbla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CRS INSIGHT Electronic Filing of Senate Campaign Finance Reports September 21, 2018 (IN10970) Related Author R RSam Garret R. Sam Garrett, Specialist in American National Government (rgare@cr , 7-6443) A FY2019 appropriations measure significantly changes campaign finance reporting requirements for Senate candidates. Report contents will not change, but the method of filing will. The provision appears in HR 5895, a minibus package that includes three FY2019 appropriations bills: Energy and Water Development, the Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. The Senate and House adopted the confee c accompanying the bill on September 12 and 13, respectively. The President signed the measure on September 21, 2018. In the 115th Congress, the electronic filing provision originated in Senator Tester's bill, . 298. Disclosure Background In campaign finance policy, disclosure refers to public reporting of information about money that campaigns, parties, and some other entities raise and spend to affect elections. By providing the public and regulators (especially the Federal ElecfiQn CommissiQn [FEC]) with documentation about political fundraising and spending, disclosure is intended to limit real or perceived quidpro quo corruption. th-er CRS reports contain additional details. Most provisions in the Feral Elcion mpign A FEA apply to political committees, which include candidate campaign committees, party committees, and political action committees (PACs). Pursuant to the FECA, political committees must regularly file disclosure reports with the FEC providing information about receipts and expenditures. Senate Political Committees Previously Filed on Paper with the Secretary of the Senate Before H_R 5895 became law, Senate political committee filing requirements differed from those for the House and presidential campaigns in two respects. First, Senate political committees filed on paper rather than electronically. Second, Senate political committees filed with the Secretary of the Senate rather than directly with the FEC. Both provisions appeared in FECA at 52 U. S.. 30102(a). As CRS has explaintd elsx x h , the House and Senate typically defer to one another on campaigns and elections issues affecting only one chamber. The previous Senate preference for filing on paper and with the Senate Secretary appears primarily to have been a matter of institutional prerogative. Before Congress established the FEC in the 1974 FECA amQndments, the rk and retar f he n were each responsible for their respective chamber's campaign finance filings. Congress shifted the place of filing to the FEC for House reports in 1995 (P L 104-79,

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