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HJRES 121
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Introduced Sep 11, 2025

Latest action (Sep 11, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Issues
Voting & Elections

Summary

The joint resolution would propose a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress and the States to regulate and set reasonable limits on money raised and spent by candidates and others to influence elections in order to advance democratic self-government and political equality. The amendment would give Congress and the States power to implement and enforce such regulations through legislation and to distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other artificial entities in campaign spending restrictions, potentially including prohibitions on corporate spending to influence elections. The amendment includes a provision that nothing in it shall be construed to limit the freedom of the press.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
46 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

Top reported contributors to Mary Gay Scanlon’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.

  • BALLARD SPAHR LLP $35,392
  • BALLARD SPAHR $32,750
  • UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA $10,450
  • NULL $9,550
  • AMERISOURCEBERGEN CORPORATION $6,600

Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Mary Gay Scanlon → · Outside spending →

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 11, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Sep 11, 2025 Introduced in House

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • SJRES 43 — A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. · Introduced Mar 27, 2025 · Cong. 119 85%
  • HJRES 112 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States related to the public debt. · Introduced Aug 15, 2025 · Cong. 119 79%
  • HJRES 122 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to the authority of Congress and the States to regulate contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections and to enact public financing systems for political campaigns. · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HJRES 6 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide for balanced budgets for the Government. · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 77%
  • HJRES 119 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to set limits on Federal campaign contributions and spending, prohibit corporate spending in the political process, require Congress to develop a system of public campaign financing for all Federal candidates who qualify for the ballot, and allow the States to set reasonable limits on campaign contributions and spending in State and local elections, and for other purposes. · Introduced Sep 10, 2025 · Cong. 119 76%
  • HJRES 21 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to the election of Senators. · Introduced Mar 11, 2009 · Cong. 111 74%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 11, 2025

Only one text version is on file, so there’s no earlier version to compare against yet.

Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

September 11, 2025

Ms. Scanlon (for herself, Mr. Landsman, Ms. Norton, Mr. Norcross, Mr. Deluzio, Mr. Magaziner, Mr. Riley of New York, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Golden of Maine, Ms. DelBene, Mr. Doggett, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Sherman, Mrs. Ramirez, Mrs. Trahan, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Moulton, Ms. DeGette, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Case, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Tonko, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Mr. Foster, Mr. Panetta, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Frost, Mr. Cleaver, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Balint, and Mr. Quigley) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States:

“Article—

“Section 1. To advance democratic self-government and political equality, and to protect the integrity of government and the electoral process, Congress and the States may regulate and set reasonable limits on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections. “Section 2. Congress and the States shall have power to implement and enforce this article by appropriate legislation, and may distinguish between natural persons and corporations or other artificial entities created by law, including by prohibiting such entities from spending money to influence elections. “Section 3. Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant Congress or the States the power to abridge the freedom of the press.”. <all>

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