Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act

Bill: 117-hr-8461
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Budd, Ted [R-NC-13]
Introduced: 2022-07-21
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Latest action: action_date: 2022-11-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-07-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits federal agencies from using funds made available for salaries and expenses to solicit or enter into agreements with nongovernmental organizations to conduct voter registration or voter mobilization activities on the agency's property or website. </p> <p>The bill also requires federal agencies to delay carrying out certain activities pursuant to Executive Order 14019 (which established requirements for expanding access to voter registration and election information) until various conditions are met,&nbsp;such as the agency submitting reports to Congress.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8461 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES July 21, 2022 Mr. Budd (for himself, Ms. Tenney , Mr. Norman , Mr. Jackson , Mrs. Greene of Georgia , Mrs. Miller of Illinois , Mr. Fitzgerald , and Mr. Mooney ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration , and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary , Oversight and Reform , and Science, Space, and Technology , 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 A BILL To prohibit agencies of the government from soliciting or entering into agreements with nongovernmental organizations to conduct voter registration or voter mobilization activities on the property or website of the agency or from using Federal funds to carry out activities directed under Executive Order 14019, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act . 2. Prohibiting promotion of voter registration by agencies (a) 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 registration or voter mobilization activities on the property or website of the agency. (b) Activities under Executive Order 14019 (1) Delay in implementation (A) Delay Except as provided in subparagraph (B), none of the funds made available for the salaries and expenses of an agency may be used to implement activities directed under Executive Order 14019 (86 Federal Register 13623) until— (i) in the case of an agency which is required to submit a report to Congress under paragraph (2)(A), 180 days after the agency submits the report; or (ii) in the case of an agency which is required to submit a report to Congress under paragraph (2)(B), the date on which the agency submits the report. (B) Exception Subparagraph (A) does not apply to activities described in section 7(c) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 ( 52 U.S.C. 20506(c) ). (2) Report Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of an agency shall submit to Congress— (A) a copy of the strategic plan for promoting voter registration and voter participation under section 3(b) of Executive Order 14019 (86 Federal Register 13623) which the agency developed or submitted to the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy; or (B) if the agency did not develop or submit such a plan 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. (c) Effective date Except as provided in subsection (b)(2), this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2023 and each succeeding fiscal year. 3. Additional report on voter registration and mobilization Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of an agency shall submit to Congress a report describing the activities carried out by the agency pursuant to sections 3 and 4 of Executive Order 14019 (86 Federal Register 13623). 4. Agency defined In this Act, the term agency has the meaning given such term in section 3502(1) of title 44, United States Code, except that for purposes of section 2(b) such term does not include an independent regulatory agency as defined in section 3502(5) of such title.