Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to ensure that only citizens are eligible to vote in Federal elections.

Key Points

• This joint resolution proposes a new Constitutional amendment that would explicitly limit voting in all federal elections — including for President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives — to U.S. citizens only.
• Federal law already prohibits non-citizens from voting in federal elections. By enshrining this rule in the Constitution, it would become nearly impossible for any future Congress to change through ordinary legislation.
• State legislatures would be primarily responsible for writing and enforcing the specific rules to carry out this amendment, but Congress retains the power to override or modify those state rules at any time.
• The amendment would only take effect if ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the states (38 out of 50), following approval by two-thirds of both the House and Senate — an extremely high bar that very few proposals ever clear.
• Congress would also have specific enforcement authority over voting in the District of Columbia under this amendment.