HR-4511 — Uncheck the Box Act

YourVoice.Now Summary

Your MoneyTransparency & Accountability

Pre-checked boxes could no longer sign you up for repeat campaign donations — you would have to clearly agree first.

Your Money

Your control over recurring campaign donations — pre-checked boxes banned

Campaigns and political groups could not treat a pre-checked box as your agreement to give again. Doing nothing would never count as saying yes to repeat charges.

Your right to cancel recurring donations — stopped when you ask

If you ask a group to stop, it would have to cancel every later charge right away. You could make that request at any point.

Transparency & Accountability

Receipt after each recurring donation — shows your next charge date

You would get a clear receipt for the first gift and every repeat after it. Each one would list the terms, plus the date and amount of your next charge.

How to cancel included in every donation message

Any message a group sends you about that donation would have to spell out how to stop future charges. The information would have to be complete enough to cancel on its own.

More about this bill

If you give to a federal campaign online, a pre-checked box could no longer sign you up for repeat charges. Donors would have to take a clear step to agree before any donation repeats. Leaving a box checked would not count as agreeing. The rule would cover campaign committees and groups that pay for election ads. Each time a repeat donation goes through, you would get a receipt listing the terms. It would show the date and amount of your next charge. Every message about the donation would have to tell you how to cancel. If you ask to stop, the group would have to cancel all future charges right away. The Federal Election Commission oversees campaign money rules. The change would take effect once it issues rules to carry this out. If that has not happened within 180 days of the bill becoming law, the change starts anyway.

Congressional Summary

Uncheck the Box Act This bill places restrictions on recurring political contributions or donations. Specifically, the bill prohibits any person from soliciting a recurring contribution or donation for a political committee, an independent expenditure, or an electioneering communication by any method that does not require the affirmative consent of the contributor or donor. In addition, the bill prohibits a political committee, a person funding an independent expenditure, or a person funding an electioneering communication from accepting a recurring contribution or donation unless the contributor or donor gave affirmative consent. This affirmative consent cannot be a passive action by the contributor or donor, such as failing to uncheck a prechecked box. Further, any person who accepts a recurring contribution or donation must (1) provide a receipt for the initial contribution or donation and for each recurrence that clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms, (2) provide all information needed to cancel the recurring contribution or donation in each communication with the contributor or donor, and (3) immediately cancel recurring contributions or donations upon request of the contributor or donor.

Legislative Subjects

Campaign financeRecurring donationsConsumer protectionPolitical donationsElections

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber
Status: summarized
Action: Introduced in House
Action Date: 2025-07-17
Date Added: 2026-03-31
Source: Congress.gov →

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