Preventing Foreign Interference in American Elections Act

This bill would expand the federal ban on election spending by foreign nationals to also cover donations for voter registration, ballot collection, voter identification, get-out-the-vote activity, communications that refer to a political party, and running elections. It would apply the ban to state and local ballot initiatives, referenda, and recall elections, and make it illegal to knowingly help someone violate the ban. Political committees and others reporting election spending would have to certify, under penalty of perjury, that they followed the ban, and Federal Election Commission investigations of possible violations would be limited in scope. The bill would also bar most federal agencies from collecting or publicly releasing the identities of donors to tax-exempt nonprofit groups, with exceptions, and would make unauthorized disclosure by federal employees a felony.

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Sponsors

• Bill Hagerty Republican sponsor
• 7 cosponsors