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CLEAN Elections Act

To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.

Introduced Jan 3, 2025

Latest action (Jan 3, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Referred to
Judiciary Committee
Policy area
Government Operations and Politics
Issues
Voting & Elections
Legislative subjects (3)
Congressional districts and representationCongressional electionsState and local government operations

Summary
  • Requires each state to conduct congressional redistricting using a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission, beginning with redistricting from the 2020 census
  • Requires states to conduct state legislative redistricting using nonpartisan independent commissions in order to receive federal election administration funds
  • Defines a nonpartisan independent commission as having equal representation from the two largest political parties in the state and no elected public officials as members

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)
5 cosponsors

Money behind the sponsor

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

  • Employer not reported $176,738
  • BLACKSTONE $26,750
  • CHAIRMAN $22,007
  • EXECUTIVE $20,370
  • GREYLOCK PARTNERS $19,800

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

Actions (2)
  1. Jan 3, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary. · house
  2. Jan 3, 2025 Introduced in House

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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.

  • HR 5426 — John Tanner and Jim Cooper Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act · Introduced Sep 17, 2025 · Cong. 119 68%
  • HR 157 — CLEAN Congress Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 67%
  • S 2885 — Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 65%
  • HR 155 — Let America Vote Act · Introduced Jan 3, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 4632 — Fair Representation Act · Introduced Jul 23, 2025 · Cong. 119 64%
  • HR 5449 — Redistricting Reform Act of 2025 · Introduced Sep 18, 2025 · Cong. 119 63%

Text versions (1)
  • Introduced in House · Jan 3, 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

January 3, 2025

Mr. Fitzpatrick introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To require the use of independent nonpartisan commissions to carry out congressional redistricting.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Citizen Legislature Anti-Corruption Reform of Elections Act” or the “CLEAN Elections Act”.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING USE OF INDEPENDENT NONPARTISAN COMMISSIONS TO CARRY OUT REDISTRICTING.

(a) Requirement.—

(1) Congressional redistricting.—Each State shall conduct Congressional redistricting (beginning with the redistricting carried out pursuant to the decennial census conducted during 2020) in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission.

(2) Redistricting for state legislative districts.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a State may not use any funds provided by the Federal Government directly for election administration purposes unless the State certifies to the Election Assistance Commission that the State conducts redistricting for State legislative districts in the State (beginning with the first such redistricting carried out after the date of the enactment of this Act) in accordance with a redistricting plan developed by a nonpartisan independent redistricting commission.

(b) Nonpartisan Independent Status.—For purposes of this section, a commission shall be considered to be a nonpartisan independent commission if—

(1) the number of its members who are affiliated with the political party with the largest percentage of the registered voters in the State who are affiliated with a political party (as determined with respect to the most recent statewide election for Federal office held in the State for which such information is available) is equal to the number of its members who are affiliated with the political party with the second largest percentage of the registered voters in the State who are affiliated with a political party (as so determined); and

(2) none of its members is an elected public official.

(c) State Defined.—In this section, the term “State” means each of the several States. <all>

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