Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to provide that Congress and the States shall have certain authority to regulate and limit contributions and spending in campaigns for elections for public office, elections for public office, and ballot initiatives and referendums.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 191 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. J. RES. 191

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 provide that Congress and the States shall have certain authority to 
    regulate and limit contributions and spending in campaigns for 
 elections for public office, elections for public office, and ballot 
                      initiatives and referendums.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 3, 2026

    Mr. Barrett submitted the following joint resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION

 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 provide that Congress and the States shall have certain authority to 
    regulate and limit contributions and spending in campaigns for 
 elections for public office, elections for public office, and ballot 
                      initiatives and referendums.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Section 1. We the People have compelling sovereign interests in 
the freedom of speech, representative self-government, federalism, the 
integrity of the electoral process, and the political equality of 
natural persons.
    ``Section 2. Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to 
forbid Congress or the States, within their respective jurisdictions, 
from reasonably regulating and limiting contributions to and spending 
in campaigns for elections for public office, elections for public 
office, and State or local ballot initiatives or referendums, including 
by distinguishing between natural persons and artificial entities and 
prohibiting artificial entities from raising and spending money in such 
campaigns, elections, and State or local ballot initiatives or 
referendums.
    ``Section 3. Congress and the States shall have the power to 
implement and enforce this article by appropriate legislation.''.
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