Sponsor
Claudia Tenney
Representative · R-NY
Representative · R-NY
The bill increases clarity and congressional oversight of federal voter-outreach activities and restricts the use of federal student aid and agency funds for registration drives to limit perceived misuse and spending, but it risks reducing outreach to underrepresented groups, imposing administrative burdens and delays, and creating legal uncertainty that may chill benign civic engagement.
Students and campus communities: Prohibits use of Federal Work-Study funds for voter registration or mobilization, preventing federal student aid from underwriting registration drives.
Federal agencies and staff: Clarifies that NVRA §7 governs agency voter-registration activities, reducing inconsistent or unlawful outreach and lowering legal risk for agencies.
Congress and the public: Requires agencies to submit EO 14019 strategic plans or certifications and 30-day activity reports, increasing transparency and congressional oversight of agency voter-outreach efforts.
Low-income people, students, and other underrepresented groups: Restricting agency and Work-Study-supported registration may reduce outreach and information to those who rely on federal programs, potentially lowering registration and participation.
Communities served by agency outreach and schools/universities: Suspension or delay of EO 14019 activities until reporting deadlines (including potential 180-day delays) may stall coordinated voter-registration initiatives.
Federal agencies and staff: Requiring strategic plans/certifications and detailed reports within 30 days imposes administrative burden, diverting staff time and resources to compliance tasks.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bars federal agency-funded voter registration/mobilization inconsistent with NVRA §7, delays EO 14019 implementation, and bans Federal Work‑Study funds for voter registration/mobilization starting FY2025.
Prohibits federal agencies from using funds to carry out or contract for voter registration or mobilization activities that are inconsistent with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) §7, suspends or delays implementation of Executive Order 14019 to the extent it conflicts with NVRA §7, and requires near‑term reporting/certification from agencies about their EO 14019 plans. It also bars use of Federal Work‑Study funds for voter registration or mobilization on or off campus starting in fiscal year 2025, while preserving limited NVRA exceptions. Agencies must submit either their EO 14019 strategic plan or a certification that none was submitted within 30 days, and provide an additional 30‑day report on activities tied to EO 14019 sections 3 and 4; implementation of EO 14019 activities is delayed until certain reporting deadlines are met. The bill defines key terms and ties the funding prohibitions to FY2025 and later.
Official title: To prohibit agencies of the government from soliciting or entering into agreements with nongovernmental organizations to conduct voter registration or voter mobilization activities on the property or website of the agency or from using Federal funds to carry out activities directed under Executive Order 14019, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 29, 2025 by Claudia Tenney · Last progress July 29, 2025