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S 749 112th Congress Senate

Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011

Official title: A bill to establish a revenue source for fair elections financing of Senate campaigns by providing an excise tax on amounts paid pursuant to contracts with the United States Government.

Introduced: April 6, 2011 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
Taxation Elections, voting, political campaign regulationGovernment trust fundsPublic contracts and procurementSales and excise taxesSenate
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Became law
Apr 12, 2011
Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held.
Apr 6, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2202)
Apr 6, 2011
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action April 12, 2011

Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. Hearings held.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on payments made pursuant to a U.S. government contract to any person that is not a state or local government, a foreign nation, or a tax-exempt organization and that has contracts with the U.S. government in excess of $10 million. Sets the rate of such tax imposed on any payment to a qualified person under any such contract at 0.50% of the amount paid and limits the aggregate annual amount of tax so imposed for any calendar year to not more than $500,000.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the tax revenues raised by this Act should be used for the financing of a Fair Elections Fund and the public financing of Senate elections.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 4
All 4 Democratic 3 Independent 1
D
Klobuchar, Amy
Minnesota · Apr 6, 2011
 D
Merkley, Jeff
Oregon · Apr 6, 2011
 I
Sanders, Bernard
Vermont · Apr 6, 2011
 D
Shaheen, Jeanne
New Hampshire · Apr 6, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 749: Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-749/
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"S. 749: Fair Elections Revenue Act of 2011." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-749/.
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S. 749, 112th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/112-S-749/.
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