YourVoice.Now Summary
Transparency & AccountabilityCivil LibertiesCriminal Justice & Due ProcessGroups spending over $10,000 on campaign ads would report their donors in 24 hours, and ads would name top funders.
Transparency & Accountability
Corporations, unions, Super PACs, and most nonprofits would report ad spending over $10,000 to the Federal Election Commission. Each report would list payments over $1,000 and who got them.
The list covers anyone who gave the sponsor $10,000 or more that year. Very short video ads may show a web link instead.
The chief executive, top union officer, or other top official must be named. On audio ads they must say it in their own voice.
Prerecorded political calls would carry the same “paid for by” notice as mailers. It would come at the start of the call, from January 1, 2027.
Ad spending for or against a judge or Supreme Court nominee is not reported today. Groups spending over $10,000 a year would report it, and name their funders.
Federal auditors would check for illegal foreign money in each four-year election cycle. They would report to Congress, and the checks end after 2036.
Civil Liberties
Donors who give a covered group $10,000 or more would be listed by name and address. A name is withheld only with proof of serious threats, not just criticism.
Suits claiming these rules break the Constitution would be filed in Washington, D.C. Courts must move fast, and any member of Congress may join.
Criminal Justice & Due Process
Setting up a company to hide foreign election money would be a new crime. Owners, officers, lawyers, and filing agents could be charged.
Foreign governments, their agents, and people under sanctions could not fund ballot measures. The rule starts with elections held in 2026.
Foreign nationals could not buy online ads that name a federal candidate. The ban runs for 60 days before a general election. Foreign governments also face a ban on issue ads.
More about this bill
Political ads would have to name their biggest funders. Video and paid digital ads would list the top five. Audio ads would list the top two. Only funders who gave $10,000 or more in the past year would count. A group's chief executive or top officer would also have to be named in the ad. Prerecorded political robocalls would say who paid for them at the start of the call. These rules would begin January 1, 2027. Behind the ads sits a new reporting duty. Corporations, unions, Super PACs, and most nonprofit groups would report campaign-related spending over $10,000. Reports would go to the Federal Election Commission within 24 hours, under penalty of perjury. They would list each payment over $1,000 and who got it. They would name donors who gave $10,000 or more, by address as well as name. They would also name the people who really own the group. Charities (501(c)(3) groups) are not covered. A donor can stay off the list by barring the use of their money for campaigns in writing. The bill also tightens the ban on foreign money in elections. Foreign governments, their agents, and sanctioned persons could not fund state or local ballot measures. The ban would reach paid online ads that name a federal candidate near an election. Setting up a company to hide foreign election money would become a federal crime. It would carry a fine, up to five years in prison, or both. Money spent on federal judge and Supreme Court nominations would be reported for the first time. Groups running ads for or against a nominee would file the same way. Court challenges to campaign finance law would have to start in Washington, D.C. Judges would be told to decide them quickly. Any member of Congress could sue or join such a case.
Congressional Summary
Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2026 or the DISCLOSE Act of 2026 This bill addresses campaign finance, including by expanding the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals, requiring additional disclosures of campaign expenditures, and requiring additional disclosures regarding certain political advertisements. Specifically, the bill expands existing foreign money prohibitions to include disbursements for paid web-based or digital communications and federal judicial nomination communications. It also prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns related to ballot initiatives and referenda. The Government Accountability Office must, for each four-year election cycle, study and report on the incidence of illicit foreign money in federal elections. Next, the bill makes it unlawful to establish or use a corporation, company, or other entity with the intent to conceal an election contribution or donation by a foreign national. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both. Covered organizations (e.g., corporations, labor organizations, and political organizations) must, within 24 hours, file reports with the Federal Election Commission to disclose campaign expenditures of more than $10,000 during an election cycle. The bill also requires organizations to provide additional disclosures regarding political advertisements, including the donors who contributed the most money to that organization in the last year.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2026-03-04
- Date Added
- 2026-04-25
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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