Bill stops non-citizens from voting in Washington D.C. elections
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 bans non-citizens from voting in Washington D.C. elections. It repeals the 2022 Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act. That 2022 law had let some non-citizens vote in D.C. city elections. The bill returns D.C. voting rules to how they were before 2022.
Who it affects
The bill affects non-citizens who live in Washington D.C. This includes green-card holders and other legal residents. These people had gained the right to vote in D.C. city elections in 2022 but lose that right now. They can no longer vote on schools, housing, and public safety. They pay taxes and follow D.C. laws.
One thing to notice
The bill uses federal law to change D.C. voting rules. It overrides a local law that D.C. voters had approved.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
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 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $50,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 17 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
August Pfluger, who sponsored the bill, received $1,050,825 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Common Cause — $30,000 in 1 report
- Fact Coalition (a Project of the Fund for Constitutional Government) — $20,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- non-citizens — People who live in the United States but are not U.S. citizens.
- green-card holders — Legal residents with permission to live and work in the United States.
- repeal — To cancel or end a law that was already in place.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
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 14,707 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 2026-09-23.
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