period of limitations ; enforcement

period of limitations ; enforcement Sec. 302. Title IV of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, relating to general provisions, is amended by redesignating section 406 as section 408 and by inserting immediately after section 405 the following new sections: “period of limitations “Sec. 406. (a) No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for any violation of title III of this Act or of section 608, 610, 611, 613, 614, 615, 616, or 617 of title 18, United States Code, unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within 3 years after the date of the violation. 88 Stat. 1290 “(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law— “(1) the period of limitations referred to in subsection (a) shall apply with respect to violations referred to in such subsection committed before, on, or after the effective date of this section; and “(2) no criminal proceeding shall be instituted against any person for any act or omission which was a violation of any provision of title III of this Act, or section 608, 610, 611, or 613 of title 18, United States Code, as in effect on December 31, 1974, if such act or omission does not constitute a violation of any such provision, as amended by the Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments of 1974. Nothing in this subsection shall affect any proceeding pending in any court of the United States on the effective date of this section. “additional enforcement authority “Sec. 407. (a) In any case in which the Commission, after notice and opportunity for a hearing on the record in accordance with section 554 of title 5, United States Code, makes a finding that a person who, while a candidate for Federal office, failed to file a report required by title III of this Act, and such finding is made before the expiration of the time within which the failure to file such report may be prosecuted as a violation of such title III, such person shall be disqualified from becoming a candidate in any future election for Federal office for a period of time beginning on the date of such finding and ending one year after the expiration of the term of the Federal office for which such person was a candidate. “(b) Any finding by the Commission under subsection (a) shall be subject to judicial review in accordance with the provisions of chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code.”.