Saw an interesting post concerning H.R.1 which was enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives.  It’s also called “For the People Act of 2019” as Introduced in House on 01/03/2019.  Its over 500 small type pages but contains a bunch of interesting “stuff”.

Did your representative really read it BEFORE voting for it? The table of contents is the door way to some interesting verbiage.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1/text

Just rambling thru the table of contents in highly informative……

This Act is organized into 3 divisions as follows: (1) Division A—Voting. (2) Division B—Campaign Finance. (3) Division C—Ethics.

DIVISION A:

PART 1—PROMOTING INTERNET REGISTRATION – Clarification of requlations regarding eligibility to vote.
PART 2—AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION – Automatic registration of eligible individuals   .
PART 3—SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION

PART 4—CONDITIONS ON REMOVAL ON BASIS OF INTERSTATE CROSS-CHECKS – Conditions on removal of registrants from official list of eligible voters on basis of interstate cross-checks.;  Grants to States for activities to encourage involvement of minors in election activities.

PART 8—VOTER REGISTRATION EFFICIENCY ACT – Sec. 1082. Requiring applicants for motor vehicle driver’s licenses in new state to indicate whether state serves as residence for voter registration purposes.

PART 9—Providing VOTER REGISTRATION Information to secondary school students prior to graduation.
PART 10—Voter Registration of MINORS
SEC. 1094. ACCEPTANCE OF VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS FROM INDIVIDUALS UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.

subtitle E—Democracy Restoration; SEC. 1402. RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. The right of an individual who is a citizen of the United States to vote in any election for Federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility at the time of the election.

SEC. 2201. District  of Columbia Statehood. Congress finds the following:
1) District of Columbia residents deserve full congressional voting rights and self-government, which only statehood can provide.
(2) The 700,000 residents of the District of Columbia pay more Federal taxes per capita than residents of any State in the country, yet do not have full and equal representation in Congress and self-government.
(3) Since the founding of the United States, the residents of the District of Columbia have always carried all the obligations of citizenship, including serving in all of the Nation’s wars and paying Federal taxes, all without voting representation on the floor in either Chamber of Congress or freedom from congressional interference in purely local matters.
(4) There are no constitutional, historical, financial, or economic reasons why the 700,000 Americans who live in the District of Columbia should not be granted statehood.
(5) The District of Columbia has a larger population than two States, Wyoming and Vermont, and is close to the population of the seven States that have a population of under one million fully represented residents. (side note: this has been discussed for years. The standard solution is to give the property  back to Virginia and Maryland which restores individual voting rights and representation)

PART 2—GRANTS For risk-limiting audits of results of elections:;  Sec. 3106. Pre-election threat assessments.; Sec. 3201&2.National Strategy & Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions.; Subtitle E—Preventing Election Hacking; Sec. 3402 Election Security Bug Bounty Program.
DIVISION B—CAMPAIGN FINANCE;  TITLE IV—CAMPAIGN FINANCE TRANSPARENCY; Subtitle A—Findings Relating to Illicit Money Undermining Our Democracy; 

PART 3—OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS;  Sec. 4122. Judicial review of actions related to campaign finance laws.; Subtitle C—Honest Ads;  Subtitle D—Stand By Every Ad

Subtitle E—Secret Money Transparency: Sec. 4401. Repeal of restriction of use of funds by Internal Revenue Service to bring transparency to political activity of certain nonprofit organizations.
Sec. 4402. Repeal of Revenue Procedure That Eliminated Requirement to Report Information Regarding Contributors to Certain Tax-Exempt Organizations.

Subtitle G—Disclosure of Political Spending by Government Contractors; Sec. 4601. Repeal of restriction on use of funds to require disclosure of political spending by government contractors.

Subtitle B—Stopping Super PAC-Candidate Coordination: Sec. 6102. Clarification of treatment of coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates.; Sec. 6103. Clarification of ban on fundraising for super PACs by Federal candidates and officeholders.; Subtitle C—Disposal of Contributions or Donations

TITLE VII—Ethical Standards:  Subtitle A—Supreme Court Ethics; Sec. 7001. Code of conduct for Federal judges.

Subtitle B—Foreign Agents Registration

Subtitle C—Lobbying Disclosure Reform:

Sec. 7201. Expanding scope of individuals and activities subject to requirements of Lobbying; Sec. 7202. Prohibiting receipt of compensation for lobbying activities on behalf of foreign countries violating human rights. Sec. 7203. Requiring lobbyists to disclose status as lobbyists upon making any lobbying contacts.

TITLE VIII—Ethics Reforms for the  President, VP, and Federal Officers and employees.: Why would this be new?  

Subtitle B—Presidential Conflicts of Interest; Sec. 8012. Divestiture of personal financial interests of the President and Vice President that pose a potential conflict of interest.
Sec. 8013. Initial financial disclosure.
Sec. 8014. Contracts by the President or Vice President.

Loved the part on SWAMP flyers:

subtitle H—Travel on Private Aircraft by Senior Political Appointees SEC. 8071.
This subtitle may be cited as the “Stop Waste And Misuse by Presidential Flyers Landing Yet Evading Rules and standards” or the “SWAMP FLYERS”.

TITLE IX—Congressional Ethics Reform: (Not a lot of detail here)

Subtitle B—Conflicts of Interests: Sec. 9101. Prohibiting Members of House of Representatives from serving on boards of for-profit entities.; Sec. 9102. Conflict of interest rules for Members of Congress and congressional staff.; Sec. 9103. Exercise of rule making powers.; Sec. 9202. Requiring disclosure in certain reports filed with Federal Election Commission of persons who are registered lobbyists.; Sec. 8003. Requirements relating to slowing the revolving door.; Sec. 8004. Prohibition of procurement officers accepting employment from government contractors. ; Sec. 8005. Revolving door restrictions on employees moving into the private sector.