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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.

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

Latest action (Sep 17, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Issues
Voting & Elections

Summary

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to authorize Congress and the States to regulate the raising and spending of money in elections. It would permit Congress and the States to enact systems of public campaign financing designed to reduce the influence of private wealth in elections. The amendment would allow Congress and the States to distinguish between natural persons and corporations in regulating campaign spending, potentially restricting corporate spending on elections. The amendment explicitly protects freedom of the press from any restrictions. The amendment would require ratification by three-fourths of the States within seven years to become part of the Constitution.

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)
93 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK $31,726
  • HOLLAND & HART $17,400
  • ELEVATIONS CREDIT UNION $14,600
  • FOUNDRY GROUP $14,200
  • DISH NETWORK $13,200

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

Actions (2)
  1. Sep 17, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Sep 17, 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 78 — A joint resolution 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 90%
  • HJRES 191 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Congress and the States shall have certain authority to regulate and limit contributions and spending in campaigns for elections for public office, elections for public office, and ballot initiatives and referendums. · Introduced Jun 3, 2026 · Cong. 119 88%
  • 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 83%
  • HJRES 121 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to contributions and expenditures intended to affect elections. · Introduced Sep 11, 2025 · Cong. 119 78%
  • HJRES 196 — Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote. · Introduced Jun 11, 2026 · Cong. 119 74%
  • 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 73%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Sep 17, 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 17, 2025

Mr. Neguse (for himself, Mr. McGovern, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Mr. Doggett, Ms. McCollum, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Keating, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Mullin, Ms. DelBene, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania, Mr. Fields, Ms. Brown, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Lynch, Ms. Tlaib, Mr. Garamendi, Mr. Amo, Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Ansari, Ms. Budzinski, Mr. Thanedar, Mr. Crow, Ms. Norton, Mr. Carbajal, Ms. Salinas, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Goldman of New York, Ms. Pettersen, Mr. Olszewski, and Ms. Goodlander) 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 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.

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 within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

“Article —

“Section 1. Congress and the States may regulate and impose reasonable viewpoint-neutral limitations on the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections. “Section 2. Congress and the States may regulate and enact systems of public campaign financing, including those designed to restrict the influence of private wealth by offsetting the raising and spending of money by candidates and others to influence elections with increased public funding. “Section 3. 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 4. 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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