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Bill · 119th Congress · S 538

Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025

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Introduced 2025-02-12Topic: taxes

Summary

Summary by the Congressional Research Service

Eliminating Leftover Expenses for Campaigns from Taxpayers (ELECT) Act of 2025 This bill terminates (1) the taxpayer election (on the federal income tax form) to designate $3 of income tax liability to be paid to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund (which would otherwise go into the general fund of the Treasury) for financing of presidential election campaigns, (2) the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, and (3) the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account. The bill also requires funds remaining in the Presidential Election Campaign Fund to be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury for the sole purpose of reducing the deficit.

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Action history

DateChamberActionStatus effect
2025-02-12SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.refer
2025-02-12Introduced in Senateintroduce
Source: GovInfo Bill Status (Library of Congress), fetched 2026-09-11. Provisions and opinion polling arrive in a later release.