House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Protect American Election Administration Act of 2025
Official title: To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit a State from receiving or using funds or certain donations from private entities for the administration of an election for Federal office, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Tom Cole R-OKWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 24, 2025
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 24, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 723.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COLE, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 171, No. 15, January 24, 2025, Page H395):Article I, Section 4, Clause 1Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 24, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 30 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 723, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/723
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- June 13, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of June 13, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
10 cosponsors — 10 Republicans
0 of 10 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Stephanie Bice (R-OK), Ken Calvert (R-CA), John Carter (R-TX), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Jake Ellzey (R-TX), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Tracey Mann (R-KS), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Ryan Zinke (R-MT).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Tom Cole.
- H.R. 1968 (119th) Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
- H.R. 5371 (119th) Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026
- H.R. 6938 (119th) Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026
- H.R. 7147 (119th) Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026.
- H.R. 7148 (119th) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
- H.R. 7006 (119th) Financial Services and General Government and National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2026
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.