Legislation· Jun 2025Sponsored by August Pfluger (R)
To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022.
Blocks noncitizens from voting in District of Columbia elections and repeals 2022 law allowing it.
Tradeoff
Eliminates voting rights for noncitizens who meet DC residency requirements in local elections. The bill reverses a 2022 DC law that had permitted this voting since February 2023.
What's in it
No federal cost or savings over any time period (2025-2035).
The federal government bears no budget cost to enforce this voting prohibition; the policy's real burden falls on D.C.'s election administration and noncitizen residents whose voting rights are restricted, though these impacts are deemed too small to cross federal mandate reporting thresholds.
The House passed this bill 266-148 on June 10, 2025 — now in the Senate.
House
Introduced
(Jan 31, 2025)
House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform(Jan 31, 2025)
House
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform voted to send it to the floor
Reported 25 - 17(May 21, 2025)
Committee report H. Rept. 119-137.
House
Passage of the bill
To prohibit individuals who are not citizens of the United States from voting in elections in the District of Columbia and to repeal the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022
Passed(Roll #163 · Jun 10, 2025)
266 yeanay 148Senate
Received from the House
on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs(Jun 11, 2025)
- Nancy Mace (R-SC)
- Jake Ellzey (R-TX)
- Byron Donalds (R-FL)
- Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX)
- Abraham Hamadeh (R-AZ)
- William R. Timmons (R-SC)
- Derek Schmidt (R-KS)
- Lauren Boebert (R-CO)
- Claudia Tenney (R-NY)
- Michael Guest (R-MS)
- Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
- Craig Goldman (R-TX)
- Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ)
- Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA)
Passage votes so far· Jun 10, 2025· 119th Congress · 2025–2027