Amendments to H.R. 1 - For the People Act
Stand alone amendments can receive up to 10 minutes of debate
En Bloc amendments can receive up to 20 minutes of debate
Lofgren (D-CA) En Bloc #1 Scanlon (D-PA) – Amendment No. 1 - Expands state requirements for early voting locations to include college campuses
Adams (D-NC) – Amendment No. 2 - Requires that, in order to be eligible for funds under the program for institutions of higher education demonstrating excellence in voter registration, institutions must have engaged in initiatives to facilitate the enfranchisement of groups of individuals that have historically faced barriers to voting.
Adams (D-NC) – Amendment No. 3 - Requires school districts to describe how they will prioritize access to initiatives for schools serving their most vulnerable students when applying for funds under the “Pilot Program for Providing Voter Registration Information to Secondary School Students.”
Adams (D-NC), Sewell (D-AL), Ross, Deborah (D-NC), Williams (D-GA) – Amendment No. 4 - Requires an appropriations setaside for minority-serving institutions (MSIs) under the grant program for institutions of higher education demonstrating excellence in voter registration
Adams (D-NC), DeFazio (D-OR) – Amendment No. 5 - Inserts a provision requiring the US Postal Service to sweep its facilities and post offices daily to ensure that ballots are expeditiously transmitted to local election officials
Auchincloss (D-MA) – Amendment No. 7 - Expands the requirements for states to receive grants for poll worker recruitment and training to ensure the state includes dedicated poll worker recruitment for youth and minors, including by recruiting at institutions of higher education and secondary education
Auchincloss (D-MA) – Amendment No. 8 - Adds “age” to the list of bases upon which voter challenges by persons other than election officials will be presumed as lacking a good faith factual basis
Bourdeaux (D-GA), Williams (D-GA), McBath (D-GA) – Amendment No. 9 - Protects the ability of third parties to provide an application for an absentee ballot; ensures that election officials can send voter registration applications unsolicited; ensures that the number of drop boxes and geographical distribution of drop boxes provide a reasonable opportunity for voters to submit their ballot; permits for the security of drop boxes through remote or electronic surveillance
Boyle (D-PA) – Amendment No. 10 - Allows for voter education information at naturalization ceremonies for newly sworn in citizens
Brown (D-MD)- Amendment No. 11 - Requires states to include an option for an absentee ballot in the next and subsequent federal elections on a voter registration application form as part of registering for a State motor vehicle driver's license
Bush, Cori (D-MO) – Amendment No. 15 - Expands accessibility requirements for ballot drop box locations to ensure unhoused communities can participate in federal elections
Case (D-HI), Murphy, Stephanie (D-FL) – Amendment No. 16 - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to conduct a study on the 2020 elections and compile a list of recommendations to help states administer vote-by-mail elections
Castor (D-FL) – Amendment No. 17 - Adds campaign fund disbursement requirements for former candidates registering as an agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act
DeSaulnier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 20 - Adds the Bots Research Act to the bill, which requires the EAC to establish a task force to study and report on the impact of automated accounts, known as “bots,” on social media, public discourse, and elections
Escobar (D-TX), Speier (D-CA), Frankel (D-FL), Lawrence (D-MI), Sarbanes (D-MD) – Amendment No. 21 - Exempts cybersecurity assistance, including assistance in responding to threats or harassment online, from limits on coordinated political party expenditures
Y 218
N 210
Lofgren (D-CA) En Bloc #2
Armstrong (R-ND) – Amendment No. 6 - Exempts any state that does not utilize voter registration on enactment date of this Act and continuously thereafter from complying with voter registration requirements in the Act
Burgess (R-TX) – Amendment No. 12 - Requires a report to Congress on the impact of wide-spread mail-in voting on the suffrage of active duty military servicemembers, how quickly their votes are counted, and whether high volumes of mail-in votes makes it harder for those individuals to vote
Burgess (R-TX) – Amendment No. 13 - Requires a report to Congress on the data collection practices, the required necessary security resources, and the impact of a potential data breach of local, state, or federal online voter registration systems
Comer (R-KY) – Amendment No. 18 - Adds provisions requiring the disclosure to Congress of ethics waivers granted to executive branch officials; requiring presidential transition team members to disclose positions they held outside the federal government for the previous year, including paid and unpaid positions; and a provision barring presidential transition team members from working on transition activities who do not disclose information required in the transition “ethics plan”, all of which were included in H.R. 1 as introduced in the 116th Congress
Schweikert (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 39 - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to conduct a study regarding the use of blockchain technology to enhance voter security in Federal elections
Adopted Voice
Y ✓
N
Bush (D-MO) – Amendment No. 14 - Clarifies that felony convictions do not bar any eligible individual from voting in federal elections, including individuals who are currently incarcerated
Y 97
N 328
Davis, Rodney (R-IL) – Amendment No. 19 - Strikes Subtitle C of Title III “Enhancing Protections for United States Democratic Institutions” creating a ‘national strategy’ to protect US democratic institutions by establishing a national commission
Y 207
N 218
Lofgren (D-CA) En Bloc #3
Gallego (D-AZ), Leger Fernandez (D-NM) – Amendment No. 22 - Improves voting access for individuals with disabilities in the four corners region of AZ, NM, CO, and UT by making a technical fix to the Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA) program to include all 57 Protection and Advocacy Systems as eligible funding recipients
Grijalva (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 23 - Requires each State to submit to the Election Assistance Commission and Congress a report that includes the number of individuals who were purged from the official voter registration list or moved to inactive status, broken down by the reason for those actions, including the method used for identifying those voters
Grijalva (AZ) – Amendment No. 24 - Ensures that posting of notices at polling locations take into consideration factors including the linguistic preferences of voters in the jurisdiction
Langevin (D-RI), Gallagher (R-WI) – Amendment No. 25 - Implements a recommendation of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission to ensure the security of our elections and resilience of our democracy by creating the position of Senior Cyber Policy Advisor at the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and specifying that the duties of the EAC include the development, maintenance and dissemination of cybersecurity guidelines
Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 26 - Prevents the United States Postal Service from enacting any new operational change that slows the delivery of voting materials in the 120-day period before an election
Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 27 - Requires the United States Postal Service to appoint Election Mail Coordinators to assist election officials with any voting material questions
Levin, Andy (D-MI) – Amendment No. 29 - Amends Sec. 8042 (requiring disclosures of political donations and fundraising by certain Senate-confirmed nominees and other senior appointees) to add “chiefs of mission,” as defined by the Foreign Service Act of 1980, to the list of covered individuals
Luria (D-VA), Murphy, Stephanie (D-FL) – Amendment No. 30 - Prohibits taxpayer funds from being added into Freedom From Influence fund
Manning (D-NC), Price (D-NC), Ross, Deborah (D-NC), Butterfield (D-NC), Maloney, Sean (D-NY) – Amendment No. 31 - Directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to submit a joint study to Congress of how to best enforce the fair and equitable waiting times standards set forth in Sec. 1906 of H.R. 1. Requires that no individual waits longer than 30 minutes to cast a ballot at a polling place
Phillips (D-MN), McCollum (D-MN) – Amendment No. 32 - Requires state election officials to undertake accessible public education campaigns to inform voters of any changes to election processes made in response to public emergencies
Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 33 - Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to equitably include territories of the United States
Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 34 - Applies federal voter protection laws to territories of the United States
Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 35 - Permits each of the territories of the United States to provide and furnish statues honoring their United States citizen residents for placement in Statuary Hall in the same manner as statues honoring United States citizen residents of the several States are provided for placement in Statuary Hall
Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 36 - Includes territories of the United States in the Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2021 in the same manner as the 50 States and the District of Columbia
Schneider (D-IL), Case (D-HI) – Amendment No. 38 - Requires disclosure of donations of $5,000 or more to political committees, including super PACs, made 20 days or less before an election in order to ensure transparency of contributions not likely to be disclosed through regular reporting requirements before an election
Y 221
N 207
Lesko (R-AZ) – Amendment No. 28 - Strikes Sec. 4208, which expands political record requirements for online platforms
Rejected Voice
Y
N ✓
Pressley (D-MA) – Amendment No. 37 - Lowers the Mandatory Minimum Voting Age in Federal Elections to 16 years of age
Vote Requested
Y
N
En Bloc #4
Spanberger (D-VA), Case (D-HI), Moulton (D-MA) – Amendment No. 40 - Requires disclaimers within the content of social media posts for foreign-backed political content shared on online platforms. The amendment is the text of the bipartisan Foreign Agents Disclaimer Enhancement Act
Speier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 41 - Requires large online platforms to maintain a public record of political advertisements which includes information on the total number of views generated by the advertisement, the number of views by unique individuals, and the number of shares
Speier (D-CA), Moore (D-WI), Lawrence (D-MI), Schakowsky (D-IL), Frankel (D-FL), Dingell (D-MI), Escobar (D-TX), Bush, Cori (D-MO), Kuster (D-NH), Lee, Barbara (D-CA) – Amendment No. 42 - Requires states to establish privacy programs to keep personally identifiable information in voter files, such as addresses, confidential to protect survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, stalking, sexual assault, and trafficking. For automatic voter registration, requires that individuals receive an explanation of what information is needed to access voter information online, how that information is shared or sold, and what privacy programs are available to survivors
Speier (D-CA), Carson (D-IN) – Amendment No. 43 - Extends the statute of limitations for criminal violations of Federal Election Campaign Act from 5 years to 10 years; and for civil violations from 5 years to 15 years
Speier (D-CA) – Amendment No. 44 - Requires a sufficient number of ballot marking machines equipped for individuals with disabilities, as defined by the Election Assistance Commission in consultation with the Access Board and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for all in person voting options.
Swalwell (D-CA) – Amendment No. 45 - Ensures college student voters are not subjected to intimidation or deceptive practices when exercising their right to vote in their college towns
Swalwell (D-CA) – Amendment No. 46 - Clarifies prohibitions on polling places or ballot drop boxes that falsely purport to be an official location established for an election
Swalwell (D-CA) – Amendment No. 47 - Adds colleges’ and universities’ duty to better provide students with voter information on the school’s website and transmitted via social media
Tlaib (D-MI) – Amendment No. 48 - Prioritizes local education agencies that receive Title I funding from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the pilot program to provide voter registration information to secondary school students prior to graduation
Tlaib (D-MI) – Amendment No. 49 - Requires that every polling location has available free of charge the required forms from the relevant State for an individual to register to vote, or revise the individual's voter registration information
Tlaib (D-MI) – Amendment No. 50 - Requires all polling stations to be open for a minimum of 4 total hours outside of the regular working hours from 9am to 5pm in the time zone of the polling location
Torres, Ritchie (D-NY), Bush, Cori (D-MO) – Amendment No. 51 - Requires the Federal Election Commission to (1) study the efficacy of political voucher programs in expanding and diversifying who gives to candidates and who runs for office and (2) issue a report on how a national political voucher program could be implemented
Torres, Ritchie (D-NY) – Amendment No. 52 - Requires GAO to conduct a study on turnout rates based on age in States and localities that permit voters to participate in elections before reaching the age of 18
Torres, Ritchie (D-NY) – Amendment No. 53 - Requires GAO to conduct a study on the implementation and impact of ranked choice voting in States and localities with a focus on how to best implement a model for Federal elections nation wide. The study shall include the impact on voter turnout, negative campaigning, and who decides to run for office
Underwood (D-IL) – Amendment No. 54 - Requires the Comptroller General's report on small dollar financing to include an assessment of impacts on candidate diversity
Waters (D-CA) – Amendment No. 55 - Prohibits misinformation which threatens potential voters with civil or other legal penalties if they exercise their right to vote
Williams (D-GA) – Amendment No. 56 - Requires the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in coordination with the Election Assistance Commission, to provide a uniform statement that would be included with certain leases and vouchers for federally assisted rental housing as well as with mortgage applications to inform recipients how they can register to vote and their voting rights under law
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