2025 bills / H.B. 393
H.B. 393 Banning Foreign Funding in Ballot Propositions and Elections (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee (stopped here)
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill would bar foreign nationals from making contributions or independent expenditures for political purposes, and bar candidates, officeholders, and campaign-reporting entities from knowingly soliciting or accepting such contributions. Recipients would have to notify the lieutenant governor, return the money, or send it to the state General Fund if the donor refuses it, and violators could face criminal and civil penalties.
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Official description
- defines terms
- prohibits a foreign national from making or attempting to make a contribution or an independent expenditure for a political purpose
- prohibits a candidate, officeholder, or entity subject to campaign finance reporting requirements from knowingly soliciting, accepting, or receiving a contribution from a foreign national
- requires a candidate, officeholder, or entity that receives contributions to annually certify to the lieutenant governor that the candidate, officeholder, or entity did not knowingly accept a contribution from a foreign national
- requires each corporation or labor organization subject to campaign finance reporting requirements to certify that the corporation or labor organization is not a foreign national
- requires a candidate, officeholder, or entity that receives a contribution from a foreign national to:
- immediately notify the lieutenant governor
- return the contribution to the foreign national
- if the foreign national refuses to accept the return of the contribution, disperse the value of the contribution into the state's General Fund
- prohibits any person from aiding or facilitating a violation of the prohibitions described above
- establishes a criminal penalty for a person who violates the provisions described above
- requires the lieutenant governor to impose a civil penalty against a foreign national that makes a contribution or independent expenditure
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 393 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 393 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 11 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Government Operations Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 20, 2025Who voted how