Congress strips voting rights from D.C.'s legal residents
H.R. 884 — 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. · Filed by August Pfluger (R-TX) · 14 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 31, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
This bill prohibits non-citizens from voting in District of Columbia elections and repeals the 2022 Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act, which had allowed certain non-citizens (primarily green-card holders and other legal residents) to vote in D.C. municipal elections. The bill restores D.C. voting law to its pre-2022 state, limiting the franchise to U.S. citizens only.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative function is to narrow the D.C. municipal franchise by repealing a 2022 law that had extended voting rights to non-citizen legal residents. It is a direct restriction on voting eligibility, not a procedural or administrative measure.
What the text implies
- The bill overrides D.C.'s Home Rule authority by using federal statute to dictate local voting eligibility—a federalism question that may invite constitutional challenge under the D.C. Home Rule Act and the Voting Rights Act.
- Approximately 50,000–70,000 D.C. residents (green-card holders, visa holders, and other legal non-citizens) lose municipal voting rights, though the exact count is uncertain.
- The repeal restores pre-2022 law, meaning any D.C. ordinances or administrative rules enacted under the 2022 Act's authority may face legal uncertainty regarding their validity.
- The bill does not address federal elections—non-citizens were already barred from voting in federal elections; this affects D.C. municipal elections only.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
The bill narrows voting rights for a subset of D.C. residents—legal permanent residents and other non-citizens who had gained municipal voting eligibility under the 2022 Act. These individuals lose the ability to participate in local elections affecting their daily lives (schools, housing, public safety, taxation), despite being subject to D.C. law and contributing to the local tax base. The restriction is imposed by federal statute on a local jurisdiction, overriding D.C.'s own democratic choic
Named in the bill
District of Columbia, Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, D.C. Law 24–242, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Where it stands
14 cosponsors: 14 Republicans.
- Jan 31, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 31, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform”
- May 21, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- May 21, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 17”
- Jun 10, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 266 - 148, 1 Present (Roll no. 163).”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 lobbying clients named this bill on 2 disclosure filings across 2 quarters, Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $50,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 17 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 41% of bills with at least one filing.
August Pfluger, the sponsor, reported $1,070,325 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Common Cause — $30,000 on 1 filing
- Fact Coalition (a Project of the Fund for Constitutional Government) — $20,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 22, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,407 characters) on Jun 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 22, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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