S. 1205 119th Congress Senate

Free Speech Fairness Act

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow charitable organizations to make statements relating to political campaigns if such statements are m… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow charitable organizations to make statements relating to political campaigns if such statements are made in the ordinary course of carrying out its tax exempt purpose.

Introduced: March 31, 2025 Introduced by: James Lankford Republican · Oklahoma See on congress.gov

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Mar 31, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Mar 31, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Related & companion bills 1

Bill text 1 version

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Finance Committee
Senate

Lobbying activity 7

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
7 filings
SENATE
7 filings
Treasury, Dept of
7 filings
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
6 filings
Executive Office of the President (EOP)
1 filing
State, Dept of (DOS)
1 filing
U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
1 filing

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Cosponsors 2

Wicker, Roger F.

Mississippi · Apr 4, 2025

Cruz, Ted

Texas · Mar 31, 2025

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APA

U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1205: Free Speech Fairness Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1205/

MLA

"S. 1205: Free Speech Fairness Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1205/.

Bluebook (legal)

S. 1205, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-1205/.

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