3.0.0 428 2023-03-15T19:00:24Z 2023-03-15T19:00:24Z Senate S 2021-02-24 117 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2021-02-24T22:51:39Z For the People Act of 2021 117 1 HR 2021-03-11 Received in the Senate. Related bill CRS Empower Act of 2021 117 1312 HR 2021-04-28 Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. Identical bill CRS For the People Act of 2021 117 2093 S 2021-09-15 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure withdrawn by unanimous consent in Senate. (CR S6516-6517) Related bill CRS Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act 117 9623 HR 2022-12-20 Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Reform, House Administration, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Intelligence (Permanent Select), Rules, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. Related bill CRS Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act 117 5315 S 2022-12-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2021-02-24 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2021-02-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD N L000570 Sen. Lujan, Ben Ray [D-NM] Ben Lujan D NM R. 2021-02-24 True Taxation Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Government trust funds Political parties and affiliation Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Taxation 00 2021-02-24 Introduced in Senate 2021-05-21T14:33:19Z Empower Act of 2021

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

The bill (1) increases the amount of matching funds for participating candidates by matching the first $200 of contributions by individuals to a candidate at a 6:1 ratio; (2) eliminates spending limits on participating candidates; (3) allows the national committee of a political party to make expenditures of up to $100 million in coordination with participating candidates; (4) requires all payments made to candidates, beginning with the 2028 presidential election, to be made from the Freedom From Influence Fund established by this bill; and (5) prohibits joint fundraising committees for any authorized committee of a candidate.

]]> Empower Act of 2021 Display Title Empower Act of 2021 Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend chapters 95 and 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the system of public financing for Presidential election campaigns, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Empower Act of 2021 Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s428is/xml/BILLS-117s428is.xml 2021-02-24 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.