Proposed amendments to the Hatch Political Activities Act : hearings before the Subcommittee on Elections of the Committee on House Administration, House of Representatives, Eighty-sixth Congress, first and second sessions on H.R. 696, a bill to amend the provisions of law relating to the prevention of pernicious political activities (The Hatch Political Activities Act) to make them inapplicable to state and municipal officers and employees, to permit limited partisan political activities by federal officers and employees in certain designated localities and for other purposes, April 8, 1959, and March 2, 1960. 1960.