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Introduced July 16, 2025 by Jared Moskowitz · Last progress July 16, 2025
The bill strengthens transparency and reduces corruption risk at Presidential Libraries/Centers, but does so by sharply limiting fundraising and imposing complex reporting and legal risks that could strain nonprofit operations and chill legitimate donors.
Taxpayers and the public: Reduces pay‑to‑play and foreign influence risks by banning donations from foreign nationals, federal contractors, lobbyists, and pardon‑seekers to Presidential Libraries/Centers during a president's term and for a defined period thereafter.
Taxpayers and researchers: Increases transparency by requiring searchable, quarterly public reporting of donor names, addresses, employers, occupations, dates, and amounts on NARA's website.
Taxpayers and institutional stakeholders: Deters misuse of donated funds and makes violations actionable by prohibiting conversion of donations to personal use and providing enforcement authorities (disgorgement, injunctions, civil/criminal penalties, and state AG enforcement).
Nonprofit Presidential Libraries/Centers and the public: Significantly restricts fundraising by banning many potential donors and imposing an aggregate $10,000 cap during a president's term plus one year, which could reduce funds for preservation, staffing, and public programming.
Nonprofits and federal/state administrators: Imposes substantial compliance and administrative burdens—quarterly searchable reporting, indexing rules, and cross‑references to FECA/FARA/lobbying/contractor rules—that increase staff time, IT costs, and legal compliance needs.
Donors and institutions: Uses a broad definition of "donation" (including routed payments and some payments for services) that could sweep in common transactions and create legal uncertainty about what must be reported or is prohibited.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Bans solicitation or receipt of donations to certain presidential libraries/centers from specified donors (e.g., foreign nationals, federal contractors, non-501(c)(3) entities) while the subject is serving as or has been elected President.
Prohibits certain donors from giving or promising donations to presidential libraries or affiliated private centers while the library’s subject is serving as, or has been elected President. The bill adds new definitions for key terms (for example, “donation,” “Presidential Library or Center,” “foreign national,” and “federal contractor”) and applies the ban to solicitations, acceptances, receipts, or promises of donations made to the library/center, its officers or employees, or the Archivist. The rule covers a wide range of transfers (money, things of value, payments for services) but excludes uncompensated volunteer services, and it applies to private organizations established to raise funds for presidential archival depositories and related facilities that are set up on or after the subject’s first presidential campaign. The text provided does not specify enforcement mechanisms, penalties, or funding for implementation.