H.R. 8595 · 119th Congress · Economics and public finance
National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2027
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
Bundled: this vote covered more than one measure.
House · Jul 15, 2026
Roll call ↗217
209
Passed the House.
This is a bundle. A single House vote combined an unrelated State Department and foreign aid spending bill with a nationwide rewrite of voter registration and voter ID law. A member could not vote for the department's operating budget, global health funding, and foreign military assistance without also voting for the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act's citizenship documentation and photo ID mandates for federal elections, which are ordinarily debated and voted on as standalone legislation. The two divisions share no subject matter, and the bill's title names only the appropriations purpose, giving no indication that Division B rewrites voter eligibility law.
Passed the House on July 15, 2026.
Latest action: Received in the Senate
- IntroducedApr 30, 2026
- CommitteeApr 30, 2026
- Passed HouseJul 15, 2026
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- None
- House committee
- Appropriations
- Lobbying
- At least 85
- organizations named it2026 Q1 to 2026 Q2
What it does
This is a fiscal year 2027 appropriations act for the State Department, foreign assistance, and international security programs, combined with a separate division that rewrites federal voter registration and voter identification law.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, July 15, 2026
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
This is a fiscal year 2027 appropriations act for the State Department, foreign assistance, and international security programs, combined with a separate division that rewrites federal voter registration and voter identification law. It runs 78 sections across two divisions and is too large to lay out provision by provision, so this covers the major components.
Division A funds the State Department and related foreign affairs agencies. It provides $9,761,523,000 for the Department of State's core diplomatic and consular operations, $3,350,000,000 for global health programs, and $5,533,800,000 for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and research, including a $1,250,000,000 contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It provides $5,000,000,000 for international humanitarian and refugee assistance, $6,752,500,000 for the Foreign Military Financing Program, which funds grants for foreign governments to buy U.S. defense equipment, and $6,890,170,000 for National Security Investment Programs supporting Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states. It permanently rescinds $1,000,000,000 in unobligated international disaster assistance funds, $458,100,000 from consular and border security programs, and $385,000,000 from the Millennium Challenge Corporation. General provisions bar State Department funds from being used, directly or indirectly, to pressure U.S. technology and social media companies to restrict lawful online speech, and bar funds from being used for training or programming built around concepts such as an individual being inherently racist or oppressive because of race or sex, or the United States being systemically racist or sexist.
Division B, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, rewrites federal election law nationwide. It requires anyone registering to vote in a federal election to present documentary proof of United States citizenship, such as a passport, a REAL ID-compliant document showing citizenship, or a certified birth certificate, though an applicant who cannot produce such a document may still register by signing a sworn citizenship attestation for a state or local official to evaluate. It separately requires a photo identification to cast a ballot in a federal election in person, or a copy of one, or a Social Security number plus an affidavit, to vote by mail. States must submit their voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security's SAVE system to identify noncitizens and remove them after notice and a chance to prove citizenship. It creates new federal crimes for an election official who registers an applicant without proof of citizenship, or a federal employee who materially assists a noncitizen in registering or voting, and expands the law's private right of action to cover such registrations. Absent uniformed services voters are exempt from both the citizenship documentation and photo ID requirements. The requirements take effect on enactment.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 85 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 98 quarterly reports filed by 21 lobbying firms and by 52 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: Collier Collective, LLC; The University of Florida Board of Trustees; Conservation International; Institute of International Education (IIE); Fulbright University Vietnam USA. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 80 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
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. Our copy holds 2 fewer filings for 2025 Q4 and 7 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.