Members of a House-Senate conference committee are considering a compromise version of a bill to ban the transfer of campaign contributions from one political action committee to another.

Different versions of the bill passed the House and Senate in February. The conference committee has been trying to work out differences between the two bills for almost three months.

The sponsor of the original bill, Rep. Jeff McLaughlin of Guntersville, presented the conference committee Thursday with a new 31-page bill that bans PAC-to-PAC transfers. But it allows transfers from PACs to political parties, legislative caucuses and to "get out the vote" organizations.

The compromise allows PACs to give to parties and caucuses, but parties and caucuses can't give the money to another PAC. McLaughlin says he hopes the House and Senate will get a chance to approve the compromise in the final two days of the session.

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