SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting Free and 
Fair Elections Act of 2023’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL AGENCY INVOLVEMENT IN VOTER REG-
ISTRATION ACTIVITIES. 
(a) CLARIFICATION OF FEDERAL AGENCY INVOLVE-
MENT IN VOTER REGISTRATION ACTIVITIES.—Executive 
Order 14019 (86 Fed. Reg. 13623; relating to promoting 
access to voting) shall have no force or effect to the extent 
that it is inconsistent with section 7 of the National Voter 
Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20506). 
(b) PROHIBITING PROMOTION OF VOTER REGISTRA-
TION BY AGENCIES.— 
(1) AGREEMENTS
WITH
NONGOVERNMENTAL 
ORGANIZATIONS.—None of the funds made available 
for the salaries and expenses of an agency may be 
used to solicit or enter into an agreement with a 
nongovernmental organization to conduct voter reg-
istration or voter mobilization activities, including 
registering voters or providing any person with voter 
registration materials, absentee or vote-by-mail bal-
lot applications, voting instructions, or candidate-re-
lated information, on the property or website of the 
agency. 
(2) ACTIVITIES
UNDER
EXECUTIVE
ORDER 
14019.— 
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(A) DELAY IN IMPLEMENTATION.— 
(i) DELAY.—Except as provided in 
clause (ii), none of the funds made avail-
able for the salaries and expenses of an 
agency may be used to implement activities 
directed under Executive Order 14019 (86 
Fed. Reg. 13623) until— 
(I) in the case of an agency that 
is required to submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees 
under subparagraph (B)(i), 180 days 
after the agency submits the report; 
or 
(II) in the case of an agency that 
is required to submit a report to the 
appropriate congressional committees 
under subparagraph (B)(ii), the date 
on which the agency submits the re-
port. 
(ii) EXCEPTION.—Clause (i) shall not 
apply to any activity described in section 
7(c) of the National Voter Registration Act 
of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20506(c)). 
(B) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
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head of each agency shall submit to the appro-
priate congressional committees— 
(i) a copy of the strategic plan of the 
agency for promoting voter registration 
and voter participation under section 3(b) 
of Executive Order 14019 (86 Fed. Reg. 
13623) that the agency developed or sub-
mitted to the Assistant to the President 
for Domestic Policy; or 
(ii) if the agency did not develop or 
submit a plan described in clause (i) to the 
Assistant to the President for Domestic 
Policy, a certification signed by the head of 
the agency that the agency did not develop 
or submit such a plan. 
(3) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Except as provided in 
paragraph (2)(B), this section shall apply with re-
spect to fiscal year 2023 and each succeeding fiscal 
year. 
(c) ADDITIONAL REPORT ON VOTER REGISTRATION 
AND MOBILIZATION.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the head of each agency 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report describing the activities carried out by the agency 
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pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order 14019 
(86 Fed. Reg. 13623). 
(d) PROHIBITING VOTER REGISTRATION AND MOBI-
LIZATION IN FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAMS.—Sec-
tion 443(b)(1) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1087–53(b)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as sub-
paragraph (E); and 
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (C) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) does not involve registering or mobi-
lizing voters on or off the campus of the institu-
tion; and’’. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) AGENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 
meaning given the term in section 3502(1) of title 
44, United States Code, except that for purposes of 
subsection (c)(2) such term does not include an 
independent regulatory agency as defined in section 
3502(5) of title 44, United States Code. 
(2) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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(A) the Committee on Rules and Adminis-
tration of the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
Senate; 
(C) the Committee on House Administra-
tion of the House of Representatives; and 
(D) the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
House of Representatives. 
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