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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to terminate as of December 31, 2010, taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns. Abolishes the Presidential Election Campaign Fund and the Presidential Primary Matching Payment Account.
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer all amounts remaining in the Fund after enactment of this Act to the general fund of the Treasury to reduce the deficit.
Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to terminate the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the EAC Standards Board, and the EAC Board of Advisors 61 days after enactment of this Act. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to perform EAC functions with respect to certain existing contracts and agreements during the transition period for winding up EAC affairs.
Transfers specified election administration functions of the EAC to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
Replaces the Standards Board and the Board of Advisors with a Guidelines Review Board to review voluntary voting system guidelines proposed by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.
Sets forth special requirements relating to the transfer of certain EAC authorities to the FEC with respect to development of such guidelines.
Transfers to the FEC the EAC Office of Voting System Testing and Certification.
Directs the Comptroller General to: (1) study the procedures used to adopt and modify the voluntary voting system guidelines applicable to the administration of elections for federal office, and (2) develop recommendations on methods to improve such procedures.
Requires the FEC to: (1) study the procedures for the testing, certification, decertification, and recertification of voting system hardware and software used in federal elections; and (2) develop a recommendation on the entity best suited to oversee and carry out such procedures.
Requires the recommendations in both studies to take into account the needs of persons affected by such guidelines, including state and local election officials, voters with disabilities, absent military and overseas voters, and the manufacturers of voting systems.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 3463 as passed House without amendment on Dec 1, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Dec 1, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveDec 1, 2011
House Dec 1, 2011 · the primary vote
To reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions and by terminating the Election Assistance Commission
Passed
235 Yea 190 Nay 8 not voting
Party-line vote 1 of 425 voting members broke with their own party: 1 Republican.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 3463 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 3463 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
2 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.