Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act

This bill would amend federal campaign finance law to expand the existing ban on election spending by foreign nationals. It would bar foreign donations for voter registration, ballot collection, voter identification, get-out-the-vote activity, public communications that refer to a political party, and running elections. It would make it illegal to knowingly help someone break the ban. It would require campaign committees and outside spenders to certify under penalty of perjury that they followed the ban, and would limit the scope of Federal Election Commission investigations into such violations. It would also bar most federal agencies from collecting or publicly releasing the names of donors to tax-exempt nonprofit groups, with exceptions such as the IRS and the FEC, and would make unauthorized disclosure by federal workers a felony.

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Sponsors

• Bryan Steil Republican sponsor
• 3 cosponsors