Federal Election Commission May 2023 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Commission is removing the regulatory prohibition on knowingly helping or assisting any person in making a contribution in the name of another. The Commission is taking this action to implement the order of the United States District Court in FEC v. Swallow, which enjoined the Commission from enforcing the provision and ordered the Commission to strike it from the Code of Federal Regulations. The Commission is accepting comments on this revision to its regulations and any comments received may be addressed in a subsequent rulemaking document.

The Federal Election Commission is publishing matching fund submission dates for publicly funded 2024 presidential primary candidates. Eligible candidates may present one submission and/or resubmission per month on the designated date. The Commission is also publishing the dates on which publicly funded 2024 presidential primary candidates must submit their statements of net outstanding campaign obligations after their dates of ineligibility. Candidates are required to submit a statement of net outstanding campaign obligations prior to each regularly scheduled date on which they receive Federal matching funds, on dates set forth in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION below.

The Federal Election Commission (``Commission'') adopted a program in 2011, which was last revised in 2019, providing for a means by which persons may have a legal question considered by the Commission earlier in both the report review process and the audit process. Because the Commission is separately adopting a new audit process, it is revising the policy for the legal question program to narrow its scope to encompass only legal questions arising from requests for corrective action made by the Commission's Reports Analysis Division.