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HR 3535Jul 13, 2026Passed Chamber

What a yes vote endorsed

Stop Foreign Funds in Elections Act

What this does

This bill extends the existing federal ban on election money from foreign nationals to cover ballot measures. It amends Section 319(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 so the prohibition on contributions and donations by foreign nationals reaches state and local ballot initiatives, referenda, and recall elections, not just candidate elections. The ban applies to contributions and donations made on or after the date of enactment.

Passed the House by voice vote

How we know · 5 sourced claims
  • The bill amends Section 319(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.Source: Sec. 2(a)
  • It extends the existing prohibition on contributions and donations by foreign nationals to state and local ballot initiatives, referenda, and recall elections.Source: Sec. 2(a)
  • The prohibition on foreign-national election money already existed and applied to candidate elections before this change.Source: Sec. 2(a)
  • The amendment applies to contributions and donations made on or after the date of enactment.Source: Sec. 2(b)
  • The measure makes a single change to one statute and carries no other subject.Source: Sec. 1, Sec. 2
Read the bill on congress.gov ↗

Reported lobbying

At least

2

organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing.

A floor, not a total. Those organizations were counted by the client name on 7 quarterly reports filed by 2 registered lobbying firms in 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, so an organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. They carry no per-bill dollar figure and no position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

The organizations named

  • COMMON CAUSE
  • AFL-CIO

Listed as filed. They are every client name on the filings counted here.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.