HR 4479 — Positioning the Election Assistance Commission for the Future Act of 2023
Congress 118
Latest action: — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
Sponsors (1)
- Lawler, Michael (R, NY-17) — cosponsor
Action timeline (3)
- · H11100 — Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
- · Intro-H — Introduced in House
- · 1000 — Introduced in House
Text versions (1)
- Introduced in House · 2023-07-06 — open
Bill text (extracted)
Amendments
Congressional Research Service briefs (2)
CRS reports that cite this bill in their relatedMaterials — what Congress was reading on the topic. Click any report for its summary, formats, and bill-citation walk.
- The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC): Overview and Selected Issues for Congress
R45770· Reports · 2026-05-06The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) is an independent federal agency that is charged with helping election officials to improve the administration of elections and voters to participate in the electoral process - The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA): Overview and Ongoing Role in Election Administration Policy
R46949· Reports · 2026-03-20The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was enacted in response to issues with the administration of the 2000 elections. The highest-profile problems in those elections were in Florida—where disputes about the vote coun
Connected on the graph
3 typed relationships in the influence graph — 1 inbound, 2 outbound, grouped by type.
cited in report (2)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | → | R46949 | — | crs-report-relatedMaterials | |
| — | → | R45770 | — | crs-report-relatedMaterials |
cosponsor of bill (1)
| date | dir | entity | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | ← | Lawler, Michael | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lawler, Michael (R, house NY-17) | cosponsor | 2 | — | 3 |
Who's influencing them
Orgs ranked by combined money flow on this bill: LDA filings citing the bill + individual contributions in cycle 2026from donors whose employer matches the org name (Schedule A) to any principal committee in the "who matters" list above.
| # | Org | LDA filings | LDA spend | Donor employees | Employee donations | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retired | 0 | $0 | 525 | $579,317 | $579,317 |
| 2 | self employed | 0 | $0 | 97 | $163,279 | $163,279 |
| 3 | high opportunity neighborhood partners | 0 | $0 | 8 | $50,000 | $50,000 |
| 4 | apollo | 0 | $0 | 8 | $36,000 | $36,000 |
| 5 | unemployed | 0 | $0 | 14 | $24,563 | $24,563 |
| 6 | employer | 0 | $0 | 3 | $21,520 | $21,520 |
| 7 | self | 0 | $0 | 16 | $19,104 | $19,104 |
| 8 | bgr group | 0 | $0 | 7 | $15,960 | $15,960 |
| 9 | apollo management | 0 | $0 | 3 | $14,000 | $14,000 |
| 10 | coinbase | 0 | $0 | 4 | $13,500 | $13,500 |
| 11 | homemaker | 0 | $0 | 5 | $13,219 | $13,219 |
| 12 | apollo global management | 0 | $0 | 4 | $13,000 | $13,000 |
| 13 | paul bluhdorn | 0 | $0 | 2 | $12,189 | $12,189 |
| 14 | general atlantic | 0 | $0 | 2 | $11,500 | $11,500 |
| 15 | austin ventures | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 16 | montgomery capital inc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 17 | nyrsc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 18 | rockaway care center | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 19 | hunter financial advisors inc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 20 | ma | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 21 | arnold ventures | 0 | $0 | 2 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 22 | arden companies llc | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 23 | cumberland development | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 24 | continental investors | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
| 25 | breakthru beverage | 0 | $0 | 1 | $10,500 | $10,500 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
1 predicted yes (0%) · 266 predicted no (49%) · 276 unknown (51%)
By party: · R: 1 yes / 0 no / 276 unknown · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
1 high-confidence positions (voted + sponsor + cosponsor)
- Lawler, Michael (R · house · NY-17) · cosponsor
Timeline
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; the inline strip under the row shows the counterpart's own context (a bill's latest action, a hearing's chamber + date, a filing's form type + filed date, a clip's source + excerpt) so the timeline reads like a Wikipedia citation rail.
- 2026-05-23 · Cited in GAO report R46949 · crs-report-relatedMaterials
- 2026-05-23 · Cited in GAO report R45770 · crs-report-relatedMaterials
- 2026-05-17 · cosponsored by Lawler, Michael (cosponsor) · sponsorship