3.0.0 1917 2022-11-01T13:50:58Z 2022-11-01T13:50:58Z Senate S 2019-06-20 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-06-20T17:29:08Z Empower Act of 2019 116 4053 HR 2019-08-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Related bill CRS For the People Act of 2019 116 1 HR 2019-03-14 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 39. Related bill CRS For the People Act of 2019 116 949 S 2019-03-28 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2019-06-20 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-06-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress U000039 Sen. Udall, Tom [D-NM] TOM UDALL D NM N V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2019-06-20 True Government Operations and Politics Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Government trust funds Political parties and affiliation Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Government Operations and Politics 00 2019-06-20 Introduced in Senate 2019-11-12T21:42:14Z Empower Act of 2019

This bill modifies the system for the public financing of presidential primary and general elections.

The bill (1) eliminates spending limits on participating candidates, (2) increases the amount of matching funds for participating candidates by matching the first $200 of contributions by individuals to candidates at a 6:1 ratio, (3) requires participating candidates to agree to accept contributions of no more than $1,000, and (4) allows national parties to expend up to $100 million in coordination with participating candidates.

]]> Empower Act of 2019 Display Title Empower Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Empower Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the system of public financing for Presidential elections, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1917is/xml/BILLS-116s1917is.xml 2019-06-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.