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H.R.6493 / 118th Congress

Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act of 2023

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 478.

Official summary

Version 07 · Reported to House · Jul 8, 2024

Safeguarding Electoral Integrity Act of 2023

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.

The bill also nullifies Executive Order 14019 (which established requirements for expanding access to voter registration and election information) and terminates any contracts entered into under specified provisions of the order.

Each agency must, within 30 days, submit a report to specified congressional committees that describes the voter registration and mobilization activities carried out by the agency pursuant to this executive order.

The bill also prohibits institutions of higher education that operate federal work-study programs from registering or mobilizing voters on or off campus.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large] · R–WY

Committees

  • Education and Workforce Committee
  • Science, Space, and Technology Committee
  • Oversight and Government Reform Committee
  • Judiciary Committee
  • Committee on House Administration
3 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 478.

  2. Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.

  3. Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.

  4. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.

  5. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology discharged.

  6. Committee on Oversight and Accountability discharged.

  7. Committee on Oversight and Accountability discharged.

  8. Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

  9. Committee on the Judiciary discharged.

  10. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 118-577, Part I.

  11. Reported (Amended) by the Committee on House Administration. H. Rept. 118-577, Part I.

  12. Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 5 - 4.

  13. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Introduced in House

  20. Introduced in House

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