§ 30111.
(a)
Duties of Commission
The Commission shall—
(1)
prescribe forms necessary to implement this Act;
(2)
prepare, publish, and furnish to all persons required to file reports and statements under this Act a manual recommending uniform methods of bookkeeping and reporting;
(3)
develop a filing, coding, and cross-indexing system consistent with the purposes of this Act;
(4)
within 48 hours after the time of the receipt by the Commission of reports and statements filed with it, make them available for public inspection, and copying, at the expense of the person requesting such copying, except that any information copied from such reports or statements may not be sold or used by any person for the purpose of soliciting contributions or for commercial purposes, other than using the name and address of any political committee to solicit contributions from such committee. A political committee may submit 10 pseudonyms on each report filed in order to protect against the illegal use of names and addresses of contributors, provided such committee attaches a list of such pseudonyms to the appropriate report. The Secretary or the Commission shall exclude these lists from the public record;
(5)
keep such designations, reports, and statements for a period of 10 years from the date of receipt, except that designations, reports, and statements that relate solely to candidates for the House of Representatives shall be kept for 5 years from the date of their receipt;
(6)
(A)
compile and maintain a cumulative index of designations, reports, and statements filed under this Act, which index shall be published at regular intervals and made available for purchase directly or by mail;
(B)
compile, maintain, and revise a separate cumulative index of reports and statements filed by multi-candidate committees, including in such index a list of multi-candidate committees; and
(C)
compile and maintain a list of multi-candidate committees, which shall be revised and made available monthly;
(7)
prepare and publish periodically lists of authorized committees which fail to file reports as required by this Act;
(8)
prescribe rules, regulations, and forms to carry out the provisions of this Act, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d); and
(9)
transmit to the President and to each House of the Congress no later than June 1 of each year, a report which states in detail the activities of the Commission in carrying out its duties under this Act, and any recommendations for any legislative or other action the Commission considers appropriate.
(d)
Rules, regulations, or forms; issuance, procedures applicable, etc.
(1)
Before prescribing any rule, regulation, or form under this section or any other provision of this Act, the Commission shall transmit a statement with respect to such rule, regulation, or form to the Senate and the House of Representatives, in accordance with this subsection. Such statement shall set forth the proposed rule, regulation, or form, and shall contain a detailed explanation and justification of it.
(2)
If either House of the Congress does not disapprove by resolution any proposed rule or regulation submitted by the Commission under this section within 30 legislative days after the date of the receipt of such proposed rule or regulation or within 10 legislative days after the date of receipt of such proposed form, the Commission may prescribe such rule, regulation, or form.
(3)
For purposes of this subsection, the term “legislative day” means, with respect to statements transmitted to the Senate, any calendar day on which the Senate is in session, and with respect to statements transmitted to the House of Representatives, any calendar day on which the House of Representatives is in session.
(4)
For purposes of this subsection, the terms “rule” and “regulation” mean a provision or series of interrelated provisions stating a single, separable rule of law.
(5)
(A)
A motion to discharge a committee of the Senate from the consideration of a resolution relating to any such rule, regulation, or form or a motion to proceed to the consideration of such a resolution, is highly privileged and shall be decided without debate.
(B)
Whenever a committee of the House of Representatives reports any resolution relating to any such form, rule or regulation, it is at any time thereafter in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. The motion is highly privileged and is not debatable. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed with.
([Pub. L. 92–225, title III, § 311], formerly § 308, Feb. 7, 1972, [86 Stat. 16]; renumbered § 316 and amended [Pub. L. 93–443, title II], §§ 208(a), (c)(7)–(10), 209(a)(1), (b), Oct. 15, 1974, [88 Stat. 1279], 1286, 1287; renumbered § 315 and amended [Pub. L. 94–283, title I], §§ 105, 110, May 11, 1976, [90 Stat. 481], 486; renumbered § 311 and amended [Pub. L. 96–187, title I], §§ 105(4), 109, Jan. 8, 1980, [93 Stat. 1354], 1362; [Pub. L. 99–514, § 2], Oct. 22, 1986, [100 Stat. 2095]; [Pub. L. 104–79, § 3(c)], Dec. 28, 1995, [109 Stat. 792]; [Pub. L. 107–252, title VIII, § 801(b)], Oct. 29, 2002, [116 Stat. 1726].)