Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents
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This Act may be cited as the . Empower Act of 2017 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—Primary Elections Sec. 1001. Increase in and modifications to matching payments. Sec. 1002. Eligibility requirements for matching payments. Sec. 1003. Repeal of expenditure limitations. Sec. 1004. Period of availability of matching payments. Sec. 1005. Examination and audits of matchable contributions. Sec. 1006. Modification to limitation on contributions for Presidential primary candidates.
TITLE II—General Elections Sec. 2001. Modification of eligibility requirements for public financing. Sec. 2002. Repeal of expenditure limitations and use of qualified campaign contributions. Sec. 2003. Matching payments and other modifications to payment amounts. Sec. 2004. Increase in limit on coordinated party expenditures. Sec. 2005. Establishment of uniform date for release of payments. Sec. 2006. Amounts in Presidential Election Campaign Fund. Sec. 2007. Use of general election payments for general election legal and accounting compliance.
TITLE III—Other Campaign Finance Reforms Sec. 3001. Regulations with respect to best efforts for identifying persons making contributions. Sec. 3002. Rules relating to joint fundraising committees. Sec. 3003. Disclosure of bundled contributions to Presidential campaigns; increase in threshold for bundled contributions by lobbyists. Sec. 3004. Repeal of special contribution limits for contributions to national parties for certain purposes. Sec. 3005. Judicial review of actions related to campaign finance laws.
Sec. 3006. Treatment of internet communications made by political committees as public communications. Sec. 3007. Clarification of applicability of contribution limits to certain political committees.