Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act of 2023
This bill restricts federal agencies from engaging in voter registration or mobilization activities. It revokes Executive Order 14019 (which promoted voting access) and prohibits agencies from using federal funds to contract with nonprofits for voter registration, absentee ballot applications, or voter mobilization on agency property or websites. It also amends the Higher Education Act to ban voter registration activities in Federal Work-Study programs and requires agencies to report on past voter registration efforts within 30 days of enactment. The bill directly affects federal agencies, nonprofit organizations receiving federal funds, and college campuses operating work-study programs.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Nov 29, 2023
Last action Jul 8, 2024
Floor votes
How they voted
No floor votes recorded yet.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
10
Key actions
6
Committee
7
Amendments
1
Jul 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
lower
Jul 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.
lower
Jul 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee on Oversight and Accountability discharged.
lower
Jul 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Committee on the Judiciary discharged.
lower
Jul 8, 2024
Lower · Passed
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 118-577, Part I.
lower
Nov 30, 2023
Introduced
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 5 - 4.
lower
Nov 30, 2023
Lower · Passed
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
lower
Nov 29, 2023
Committee
Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, Science, Space, and Technology, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
lower
Nov 29, 2023
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Harriet M. Hageman
RRepublican
Co
Chip Roy
RRepublican
Co
Claudia Tenney
RRepublican
Co
Randy K. Weber, Sr.
RRepublican
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