Protecting Our Democracy Act

H.R. 5314 · 117th Congress · Dec 13, 2021 · Lineage

AN ACT

To protect our democracy by preventing abuses of presidential power, restoring checks and balances and accountability and transparency in government, and defending elections against foreign interference, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Protecting Our Democracy Act”.

Sec. 2 Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents

(a)

Divisions— This Act is organized into divisions as follows:

(1)

Division A—Preventing Abuses of Presidential Power.

(2)

Division B—Restoring Checks and Balances, Accountability, and Transparency.

(3)

Division C—Miscellaneous.

(4)

Division D—Severability.

(5)

Division E—Protecting Election Officials.

(b)

Table of contents— The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

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Dec 13, 2021viewing Received in Senate Received See what changed
Dec 9, 2021 Engrossed in House See what changed
Sep 22, 2021 Introduced in House Mr. Schiff (for himself, Mr. Hoyer, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Ms. Lofgren, Mr. Neal, Mr. Yarmuth, Mr. Meeks, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Dean, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Jeffries, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Raskin, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Speier, Ms. Porter, Ms. Scanlon, Ms. Adams, Mr. Aguilar, Mr. Auchincloss, Ms. Barragán, Ms. Bass, Mrs. Beatty, Mr. Bera, Mr. Beyer, Mr. Blumenauer, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Bonamici, Ms. Bourdeaux, Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Brownley, Mr. Carbajal, Mr. Carson, Ms. Castor of Florida, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Clark of Massachusetts, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Correa, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Demings, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Deutch, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Evans, Mrs. Fletcher, Mr. Gallego, Mr. Garamendi, Ms. Garcia of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Higgins of New York, Mr. Himes, Mr. Huffman, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Jacobs of California, Ms. Jayapal, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Jones, Mr. Khanna, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Kilmer, Mr. Kim of New Jersey, Mr. Lamb, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mr. Lowenthal, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Malinowski, Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York, Ms. Matsui, Mrs. McBath, Ms. McCollum, Mr. McGovern, Mr. McNerney, Ms. Meng, Mr. Morelle, Mr. Moulton, Mr. Neguse, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Mr. Payne, Mr. Phillips, Ms. Pingree, Mr. Pocan, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. Quigley, Ms. Ross, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Rush, Mr. Sarbanes, Ms. Schakowsky, Ms. Sewell, Ms. Sherrill, Mr. Soto, Ms. Stansbury, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Takano, Mr. Thompson of California, Ms. Tlaib, Mrs. Torres of California, Mr. Torres of New York, Mr. Trone, Ms. Wasserman Schultz, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Welch, Ms. Wild, Ms. Wilson of Florida, and Ms. Williams of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, the Budget, Transportation and Infrastructure, Rules, Foreign Affairs, Ways and Means, Intelligence (Permanent Select), and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

Protecting Our Democracy Act

Section 1 Short title

Sec. 2 Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents

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