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<dc:title>116 HR 1 RH: To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<dc:title>To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<action><date date="2019-01-03"><inline class="smallCaps">January </inline>3, 2019</date><actionDescription><sponsor bioGuideId="S001168">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Sarbanes</inline></sponsor> (for himself and <cosponsor bioGuideId="P000197">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Pelosi</inline></cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee addedDisplayStyle="italic" committeeId="HHA00" deletedDisplayStyle="strikethrough">Committee on House Administration</committee>, and in addition to the Committees on <committee committeeId="HIG00">Intelligence (Permanent Select)</committee>, <committee committeeId="HJU00">the Judiciary</committee>, <committee committeeId="HGO00">Oversight and Reform</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSY00">Science, Space, and Technology</committee>, <committee committeeId="HED00">Education and Labor</committee>, <committee committeeId="HWM00">Ways and Means</committee>, <committee committeeId="HBA00">Financial Services</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSO00">Ethics</committee>, and <committee committeeId="HHM00">Homeland Security</committee>, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned</actionDescription></action>
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<action><date date="2019-03-04"><inline class="smallCaps">March </inline>4, 2019</date><actionDescription>Additional sponsors: <cosponsor bioGuideId="A000370">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Adams</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="A000376">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Allred</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001300">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Barragán</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001281">Mrs. <inline class="smallCaps">Beatty</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001292">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Beyer</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B000490">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Bishop</inline> of Georgia</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B000574">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Blumenauer</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001278">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Bonamici</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001296">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Brendan F. Boyle</inline> of Pennsylvania</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001304">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Brown</inline> of Maryland</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001285">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Brownley</inline> of California</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001286">Mrs. <inline class="smallCaps">Bustos</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="B001251">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Butterfield</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001112">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Carbajal</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001097">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cárdenas</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001090">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cartwright</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001055">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Case</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001117">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Casten</inline> of Illinois</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001066">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Castor</inline> of Florida</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001080">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Judy Chu</inline> of California</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001084">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cicilline</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001123">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cisneros</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001101">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Clark</inline> of Massachusetts</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001067">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Clarke</inline> of New York</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001049">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Clay</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C000537">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Clyburn</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001068">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cohen</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001078">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Connolly</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C000754">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cooper</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001110">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Correa</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001069">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Courtney</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001124">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cox</inline> of California</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001119">Mrs. <inline class="smallCaps">Craig</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001111">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Crist</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C001121">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Crow</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="C000984">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Cummings</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="D000629">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Davids</inline> of Kansas</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="D000096">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Danny K. 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Doyle</inline> of Pennsylvania</cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="E000179">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Engel</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="E000299">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Escobar</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="E000215">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Eshoo</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="E000297">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Espaillat</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="E000296">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Evans</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="F000468">Mrs. <inline class="smallCaps">Fletcher</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="F000462">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Frankel</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="G000571">Ms. <inline class="smallCaps">Gabbard</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="G000574">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Gallego</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="G000559">Mr. <inline class="smallCaps">Garamendi</inline></cosponsor>, <cosponsor bioGuideId="G000587">Ms. 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<action><date date="2019-03-04"><inline class="smallCaps">March </inline>4, 2019</date><actionDescription>Reported from the <committee addedDisplayStyle="italic" committeeId="HHA00" deletedDisplayStyle="strikethrough">Committee on House Administration</committee> with an amendment</actionDescription><actionInstruction>[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]</actionInstruction></action>
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<action><date date="2019-03-04"><inline class="smallCaps">March </inline>4, 2019</date><actionDescription>Committees on <committee committeeId="HIG00">Intelligence (Permanent Select)</committee>, <committee committeeId="HJU00">the Judiciary</committee>, <committee committeeId="HGO00">Oversight and Reform</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSY00">Science, Space, and Technology</committee>, <committee committeeId="HED00">Education and Labor</committee>, <committee committeeId="HWM00">Ways and Means</committee>, <committee committeeId="HBA00">Financial Services</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSO00">Ethics</committee>, and <committee committeeId="HHM00">Homeland Security</committee> discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed</actionDescription><actionInstruction>[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 3, 2019]</actionInstruction></action></preface>
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<main changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HD2CF1E62F8614AD69C6BB2FBBE56D031" styleType="OLC"><longTitle><docTitle>A BILL</docTitle><officialTitle>To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.
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<p><br verticalSpace="nextPage"/></p></officialTitle></longTitle><enactingFormula><i>Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, </i></enactingFormula>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s1" id="HB8CA98C27BCA41F0A13EAF0CD1490D57"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">For the People Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2" id="H530940AF39C94268A4E11E9A8D6E3643"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF CONTENTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2/a" id="H394C8D05E01140E7AD8143D507AA06FD" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Divisions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>This Act is organized into 3 divisions as follows:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2/a/1" id="H21BAC137C45247A8A1D68294FFEEED46" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>Division A—Voting.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2/a/2" id="H9B520BB935044CF5B532764CB6E6DEDB" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>Division B—Campaign Finance.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2/a/3" id="H86DDCC7ED35943F1BF62169EFA13CE6E" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Division C—Ethics.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/s2/b" id="HC677C112674B412BBADB5A37D97BA487" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Table of Contents</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
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<toc changed="added" origin="#HHA00">
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<designator>Sec. 1. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H530940AF39C94268A4E11E9A8D6E3643" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2. </designator>
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<label>Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents.</label>
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<designator>DIVISION A—</designator><label>VOTING</label>
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<designator>TITLE I—</designator><label>ELECTION ACCESS</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1000. </designator>
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<label>Short title; statement of policy.</label>
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Voter Registration Modernization</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1000A. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Promoting Internet Registration</inline></label>
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<designator>Sec. 1001. </designator>
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<label>Requiring availability of Internet for voter registration.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1002. </designator>
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<label>Use of Internet to update registration information.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1003. </designator>
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<label>Provision of election information by electronic mail to individuals registered to vote.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1004. </designator>
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<label>Clarification of requirement regarding necessary information to show eligibility to vote.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1005. </designator>
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||
<label>Effective date.</label>
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic Voter Registration</inline></label>
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||
<designator>Sec. 1011. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; findings and purpose.</label>
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||
<designator>Sec. 1012. </designator>
|
||
<label>Automatic registration of eligible individuals.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1013. </designator>
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||
<label>Contributing agency assistance in registration.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H53F77FC33C104191A321CEB91AE92094" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 1014. </designator>
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<label>One-time contributing agency assistance in registration of eligible voters in existing records.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6619A20126B84C94AE5707BBC6F6A2FF" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1015. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voter protection and security in automatic registration.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H82652E5B440246BA9FBB69EAD11B2729" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 1016. </designator>
|
||
<label>Registration portability and correction.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCA4878D8A1E94E0D976BEC46CC16E63C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 1017. </designator>
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||
<label>Payments and grants.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H535614BCBD3D4D019E020EE35F3481E6" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1018. </designator>
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||
<label>Treatment of exempt States.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7454415C064A45BB9F28B83373282339" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1019. </designator>
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||
<label>Miscellaneous provisions.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H660B649EAF364A91A8F117DE864F809A" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1020. </designator>
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||
<label>Definitions.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA4497FF547CF4506A7B73E12149D54B9" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1021. </designator>
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||
<label>Effective date.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBC413CF6518C43DAA8C0470161201FAB" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Same Day Voter Registration</inline></label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H4B88028CDD0642A7AC235F174DAF64ED" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1031. </designator>
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||
<label>Same day registration.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H50B8A5E6796044DFBF686528CE586D8C" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 4</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions on Removal on Basis of Interstate Cross-Checks</inline></label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBD4B3A57FD504F57B97D000819F069F0" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1041. </designator>
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||
<label>Conditions on removal of registrants from official list of eligible voters on basis of interstate cross-checks.</label>
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 5</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Other Initiatives to Promote Voter Registration</inline></label>
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</referenceItem>
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||
<designator>Sec. 1051. </designator>
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||
<label>Annual reports on voter registration statistics.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H880FEC5DF1E64329A4D64116EC1DF22E" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 6</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of HAVA Requirements Payments</inline></label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H606188D97ACD4660B677AD831CD9AE2B" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1061. </designator>
|
||
<label>Availability of requirements payments under HAVA to cover costs of compliance with new requirements.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H98B665DD4D6E48C1AF369F171A77C1A5" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 7</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting Interference With Voter Registration </inline></label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
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||
<designator>Sec. 1071. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE8FE9FDC9E8E40AA91BE4867DCF5D06C" role="section">
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||
<designator>Sec. 1072. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of best practices.</label>
|
||
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE6A0788151AD4089A8FAC09ABB8FB154" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Access to Voting for Individuals With Disabilities</label>
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||
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||
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||
<designator>Sec. 1101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requirements for States to promote access to voter registration and voting for individuals with disabilities.</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
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|
||
<designator>Sec. 1102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion and reauthorization of grant program to assure voting access for individuals with disabilities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
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||
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Prohibiting Voter Caging</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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||
<designator>Sec. 1201. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
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||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H384DB5818C574D22A78B389096EC3202" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Development and adoption of best practices for preventing voter caging.</label>
|
||
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||
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<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
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<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
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|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Promoting Accuracy, Integrity, and Security Through Voter-Verified Permanent Paper Ballot</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC8542B11B82F402489AE3FD4BC4E2D6C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 1501. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA7654DB6A0B34CAA9F83DAB379D417B3" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 1502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Paper ballot and manual counting requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H62A7A050E2EB43F5B76892BD564BA687" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1503. </designator>
|
||
<label>Accessibility and ballot verification for individuals with disabilities.</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8F00654812B34A09BBFC4CE8224CC380" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 1504. </designator>
|
||
<label>Durability and readability requirements for ballots.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBA5CF1CE86984515923AFAC066F0F33F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1505. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date for new requirements.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC041C9758ABD47CD9DD1DF5FC0275E55" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>Provisional Ballots</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD0F24FF206C545A1AC2432F68EE9BA29" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1601. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requirements for counting provisional ballots; establishment of uniform and nondiscriminatory standards.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEB0E861350B74A72A6542E64D00D8003" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Early Voting</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HDF5D1D039D52449A87C72F7ADF1C39BA" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1611. </designator>
|
||
<label>Early voting.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HDAB0724110094D808D2D3484C75055F4" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle I—</designator><label>Voting by Mail</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6ABDA5F4AD794A1A81EE6E589D582209" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1621. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voting by Mail.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7D7FE6B248B84E82B0EB02A8C0098A9A" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle J—</designator><label>Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H403FAE50948B46D8BAF6F32137DB475D" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1701. </designator>
|
||
<label>Pre-election reports on availability and transmission of absentee ballots.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H84837E828E594EBC9E3253725A0A1F59" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1702. </designator>
|
||
<label>Enforcement.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H70601E53608C4DD7B1B03357BBE9CB7F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1703. </designator>
|
||
<label>Revisions to 45-day absentee ballot transmission rule.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA5A8E32C75424DCA98A5426B65B19E83" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1704. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of single absentee ballot application for subsequent elections.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0195CB52E4EB439083A36C9A3DDD64F1" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1705. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB9664C8D8F154A7AB2F3F0379737C637" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle K—</designator><label>Poll Worker Recruitment and Training</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H755147672F43495DB187F9E19F49D2B2" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1801. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE206A14BF98443DB851D4EC2F45350E0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1802. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants to States for poll worker recruitment and training.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H54A14B1F9BBF4D2CBC4DEEEEEB5ABDD6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1803. </designator>
|
||
<label>State defined.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7340507BCA8B4302A6E1B6774A8E14FD" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle L—</designator><label>Enhancement of Enforcement</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7465D85BA59A4257A04BE93EEF57E110" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1811. </designator>
|
||
<label>Enhancement of enforcement of Help America Vote Act of 2002.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H47DAF37E07CC4231B76A0D567A5821E7" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle M—</designator><label>Federal Election Integrity</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H14E49AC589B84C3BBBF5D0D2980B751B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1821. </designator>
|
||
<label>Prohibition on campaign activities by chief State election administration officials.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H61B8DACD7FD54A03B66EEE368033AC29" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle N—</designator><label>Promoting Voter Access Through Election Administration Improvements</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H4CD018876A284961A76B7F25D2C0BA05" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Promoting Voter Access</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7017B4835A9D4225B2A92572432A38B9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1901. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of institutions of higher education.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8C338F1BCDD940C980A9015DE9AC790D" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1902. </designator>
|
||
<label>Minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H05A4592665264046BD526613D72338C3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1903. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H4666C5B55047496F9A50F236A65EAFEB" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1904. </designator>
|
||
<label>Permitting use of sworn written statement to meet identification requirements for voting.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HF69F1A27F89D4B639ABB9DFB67BAFB82" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1905. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H52C64D9BF7A042B49F72FCBFE0B6A7B0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1906. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reimbursement for costs incurred by States in establishing program to track and confirm receipt of absentee ballots.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H592861FE85A3429F8AA5713BB0F372A3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1907. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voter information response systems and hotline.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEBF19D7C62DB4DC8A5A994A5E72F956A" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Improvements in Operation of Election Assistance Commission</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD22D13F5CD22437D8E2B1E67627184F4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1911. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reauthorization of Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HF67871185D564C26A5301ED92781AD6A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1913. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requiring states to participate in post-general election surveys.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCFADF054074B44E2B57100ECCE5DB2C0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1914. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reports by National Institute of Standards and Technology on use of funds transferred from Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H65AE09190D01497896FA7CEBE4E9E3C3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1915. </designator>
|
||
<label>Recommendations to improve operations of Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H159EC3B3131843D2BD36A42DBBA71B24" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1916. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of exemption of Election Assistance Commission from certain government contracting requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H047A1E5906F64C3EBC9AEF8FC65B3AAD" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous Provisions</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8033D0BC4FB34EE9B39ED25A166D268E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1921. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of laws to Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA74B1FF31E734115A9210BCB38FA76B3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1922. </designator>
|
||
<label>No effect on other laws.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFDEC6C5F801543AF84D8B7872B60282E" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle O—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9C464097C7DA4CD4AE504FCDC22E02BE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1931. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H17795DF03CD84DB1BDB263666FA7C768" role="title">
|
||
<designator>TITLE II—</designator><label>ELECTION INTEGRITY</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H66C48547D7064F8EB64B489B53CB1862" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1D71721719624E07B15F6809B1DBD7A5" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H913EACBB41844F1C916AA92FFB8EC736" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H780F3FC6A4FB4380AA02DAC8005FCB88" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEB99898F7AE340B5A6875D950D0DA545" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6382F63F63D943B0AFC98FA8A1AC4A00" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Saving Eligible Voters From Voter Purging</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H41792651354C452194A811CB4CB22D2C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 2501. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2FBDE20169694F81946A6BBCBFA9382B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 2502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Conditions for removal of voters from list of registered voters.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEEB013B786424B7EA7FF800B11E6814E" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>No Effect on Authority of States to Provide Greater Opportunities for Voting</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H63DCB64D9E344198BE6E7232012F0A2F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 2601. </designator>
|
||
<label>No effect on authority of States to provide greater opportunities for voting.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD1E086BA90A9402581114ADB5061E014" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HACE3865B9F134D57AF3168F3B0BDE508" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 2701. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H782595CBA2914ADCAE72174AD4E98A94" role="title">
|
||
<designator>TITLE III—</designator><label>ELECTION SECURITY</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H85DD12EE476F49CBBF9A89AF0B41B214" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3000. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; sense of Congress.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC0D09AEC40374F34937D777DC85C7412" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Financial Support for Election Infrastructure</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H4C638B73C6A541DE8ED8378BE8125DC4" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Voting System Security Improvement Grants</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEA832F99A0E94B929AE97DB939D0F876" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA2CF5C66B760462DBA5CF7BF3280FA35" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3002. </designator>
|
||
<label>Coordination of voting system security activities with use of requirements payments and election administration requirements under Help America Vote Act of 2002.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE0D967AEECAF493AB49812D50056E3FC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3003. </designator>
|
||
<label>Incorporation of definitions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2F9409FDBCC94B71BAD7D8A09DE8A806" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Grants for Risk-limiting Audits of Results of Elections</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3293FFA5CDF74248B612E781F35B8783" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3011. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants to States for conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elections.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HDBB8636A06484475944E5B6A94FC93D0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3012. </designator>
|
||
<label>GAO analysis of effects of audits.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0250F370CFA04AC7BBCD54FC08573C47" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">[Reserved]</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC3B87FEF92404BCFBAD6D46665E6DB31" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Security Measures</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE36D84309B25409A8CC558171863857E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Election infrastructure designation.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H216BF56F69CB4D45B559C592BDB23421" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Timely threat information.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1DE16353B49641D39C726C087FED7E5A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3103. </designator>
|
||
<label>Security clearance assistance for election officials.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H901A56B5A2EC45EEA7A4A382A79F8ACD" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3104. </designator>
|
||
<label>Security risk and vulnerability assessments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H532EBABA8C9D4FD18A9216C169C51C33" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3105. </designator>
|
||
<label>Annual reports.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE7DEC1F184224568A07247DD7CB5256E" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Enhancing Protections for United States Democratic Institutions</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE9E8F6766A694261B181F0B42AC86A79" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3201. </designator>
|
||
<label>National strategy to protect United States democratic institutions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA14CA4BA1B8242809D0B9E2F8977BCDC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3202. </designator>
|
||
<label>National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HF2D3E3ADF639492AB01C9E65756901E1" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Promoting Cybersecurity Through Improvements in Election Administration</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE50490BEABEB4387BFE4C2335491E91E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Testing of existing voting systems to ensure compliance with election cybersecurity guidelines and other guidelines.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H54DD32D727644A5AA75DAD024185D7A4" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3302. </designator>
|
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<label>Treatment of electronic poll books as part of voting systems.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H01F45513AF5D48A6B90497331C3C6F07" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 3303. </designator>
|
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<label>Pre-election reports on voting system usage.</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H26D9EEA14B6B48CDBAF30467B51276B0" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 3304. </designator>
|
||
<label>Streamlining collection of election information.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC2B5DF3238014A299902ADAAB5D027E6" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Preventing Election Hacking</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE4B99C7E84C74620A087D310B5D6113C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 3401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H57BE1A1C9A154EB1A4CB8BB7AA26CDA5" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3402. </designator>
|
||
<label>Election Security Bug Bounty Program.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H41DF6D2B368641F4AB0BF446F331EC3F" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3403. </designator>
|
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<label>Definitions.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H32AD6611C0C84132ACA7A562C609248F" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Miscellaneous Provisions</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE275763513FC476F91D02D2BD7DA1EF6" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 3501. </designator>
|
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<label>Definitions.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5DCA0DB420D54F2EB4934CB6327C1741" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Initial report on adequacy of resources available for implementation.</label>
|
||
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H07B1E3CB6F98430FAF8107C47BAB7AE9" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5614F47683AB481EA3D72994129C3328" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3601. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<designator>DIVISION B—</designator><label>CAMPAIGN FINANCE</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H633D25F546CF4EFB8B480C3D90475FB4" role="title">
|
||
<designator>TITLE IV—</designator><label>CAMPAIGN FINANCE TRANSPARENCY</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H311F788B7182476784131238BB12BD00" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Findings Relating to Illicit Money Undermining Our Democracy</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2EC0B4808BDC4285B135AA8075E3EFC6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Findings relating to illicit money undermining our democracy.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFBDD875EA34842F98869E53E7C3F38ED" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>DISCLOSE Act</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H004DF051A431494699C05B55660CE4F0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4100. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9DCD95EE28C442AE8B8BF7B6327B6AA9" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Regulation of Certain Political Spending</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H49ACBDE1F96140C4A649D6F499ECEE23" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations, limited liability corporations, and partnerships that are foreign-controlled, foreign-influenced, and foreign-owned.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H928ADB2ED0FA4745919FD79029B0D1A4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Clarification of application of foreign money ban to certain disbursements and activities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD23568BC321B4883B7D162B3F3556A08" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Reporting of Campaign-Related Disbursements</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8EADFC7553124B4CAB7D77B5D2C7EEBA" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4111. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reporting of campaign-related disbursements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC49A1DD21C6E47479FAED42DC27F3443" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4112. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of foreign money ban to disbursements for campaign-related disbursements consisting of covered transfers.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB8D4026E67404A85888279708F3FF970" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4113. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H477174D254C444C69AC50BC46AD919D1" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Other Administrative Reforms</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFC9F98F128AF45EEB0344D6851D58DC1" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4121. </designator>
|
||
<label>Petition for certiorari.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFBD71907892745FC81A9935E023B838B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4122. </designator>
|
||
<label>Judicial review of actions related to campaign finance laws.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2CA0429E6C25415E8D920682489F3304" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Honest Ads</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2E7C2A4020464A52BE814D8EC1664381" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4201. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9D290F3211EF4759B6C00A3B8407EE5E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Purpose.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HDD199EC299FF45EE80BBA62EBC36DABE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4203. </designator>
|
||
<label>Findings.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE6D690712E414C9CBD4EBD90F4ED576C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4204. </designator>
|
||
<label>Sense of Congress.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAF9C9CDB11154439949E69F9728FB914" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4205. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion of definition of public communication.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCC524FA713A841F5B54F37FDBB83CF4C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4206. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion of definition of electioneering communication.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBEBA901D1CE84388B3090C30E34CE7D6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4207. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of disclaimer statements to online communications.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE6A2BA7189BD4E5E8B6931AA7880B1D0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4208. </designator>
|
||
<label>Political record requirements for online platforms.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC5295BEEF7AF45B38D6186616389E8BC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4209. </designator>
|
||
<label>Preventing contributions, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements for electioneering communications by foreign nationals in the form of online advertising.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB42A9A7BB0D243B793D38F2993E3913F" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Stand By Every Ad</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2D42A24113024762BDE6A78F804BFD38" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC3F5CEBA96824D0C8A1531BF92D7E4C7" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Stand By Every Ad.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H830B3F3EA0044C6D85CB4D8735EEAECF" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4303. </designator>
|
||
<label>Disclaimer requirements for communications made through prerecorded telephone calls.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD54E5EF632D744FC8B63E66C61B8219F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4304. </designator>
|
||
<label>No expansion of persons subject to disclaimer requirements on Internet communications.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB0AE7B8F84D043179ED5D676A9397CCE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4305. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBE3FCDF2ABE84D74B722E07EFB3458EC" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H27C86267E6DE4FAB84F2101AD2B7D500" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA6075379C1394B9FBFF74BE82CBBCFFB" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3F5F1DDCE9EB4D11B5B50A1D9DB88741" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Limitation and Disclosure Requirements for Presidential Inaugural Committees</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H28285817F7CE4145A4EC6435B469645E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4701. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H94D3C772514D499F958E5FE6F7805DE9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4702. </designator>
|
||
<label>Limitations and disclosure of certain donations to, and disbursements by, Inaugural Committees.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEBA2C0FA026E4E6AA23DB7440EC80691" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle I—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H865DDC6928B348248929133278B83B14" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4801. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8D0D7B8D4ED944DD9C4C3040F73CE5C1" role="title">
|
||
<designator>TITLE V—</designator><label>CAMPAIGN FINANCE EMPOWERMENT</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H65CE6BEF2F2943FA8B6A0020FCCA42F7" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Findings Relating to Citizens United Decision</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H26B32E2122724F8ABC890E4D39EA3FB3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Findings relating to Citizens United decision.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A90D12C23064104AC09DFE0B7D69676" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Congressional Elections</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3669ACD4BE7C48F5BDD4309FDF433E65" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5100. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H13CEC2F859664816A42783F92AFE31B3" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">My Voice Voucher Pilot Program</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB3369FB740504A1CA3582F5639CA659C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of pilot program.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1B1550CB023B40B68EB6B2520A1E0F96" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voucher program described.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5DB07E5687C54EDFA85EA83C903DE276" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5103. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reports.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC4DAFF84C3A144BBB85F3DDAFDA85340" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5104. </designator>
|
||
<label>Definitions.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAFA4279DEC5246FF9B4BE349D89B6565" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Small Dollar Financing of Congressional Election Campaigns</inline></label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>Sec. 5111. </designator>
|
||
<label>Benefits and eligibility requirements for candidates.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>“ “TITLE V—</designator><label>SMALL DOLLAR FINANCING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>“ “Subtitle A—</designator><label>Benefits</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H40F493D4F1AA4AB2A3DBDED9172C294A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>“Sec. 501. </designator>
|
||
<label>Benefits for participating candidates.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8536C586599B4BF5A6A75A26F9E27D56" role="section">
|
||
<designator>“Sec. 502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Procedures for making payments.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H24F2DCFE0F274475A9361E374330899F" role="section">
|
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<designator>“Sec. 503. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of funds.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H89F2AB3CD4844BEEBA3CDA60E5FA6343" role="section">
|
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<designator>“Sec. 504. </designator>
|
||
<label>Qualified small dollar contributions described.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>“ “Subtitle B—</designator><label>Eligibility and Certification</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA568FB6CD5854387AC763AF2174A9908" role="section">
|
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<designator>“Sec. 511. </designator>
|
||
<label>Eligibility.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFF3AABB43ECC44CDA0E75BD675741CA9" role="section">
|
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<designator>“Sec. 512. </designator>
|
||
<label>Qualifying requirements.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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<designator>“Sec. 513. </designator>
|
||
<label>Certification.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>“ “Subtitle C—</designator><label>Requirements for Candidates Certified as Participating Candidates</label>
|
||
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|
||
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<designator>“Sec. 521. </designator>
|
||
<label>Contribution and expenditure requirements.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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<designator>“Sec. 522. </designator>
|
||
<label>Administration of campaign.</label>
|
||
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||
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<designator>“Sec. 523. </designator>
|
||
<label>Preventing unnecessary spending of public funds.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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<designator>“Sec. 524. </designator>
|
||
<label>Remitting unspent funds after election.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>“ “Subtitle D—</designator><label>Enhanced Match Support</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
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<designator>“Sec. 531. </designator>
|
||
<label>Enhanced support for general election.</label>
|
||
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<designator>“Sec. 532. </designator>
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<label>Eligibility.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 533. </designator>
|
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<label>Amount.</label>
|
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<designator>“Sec. 534. </designator>
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<label>Waiver of authority to retain portion of unspent funds after election.</label>
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<designator>“ “Subtitle E—</designator><label>Administrative Provisions</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 541. </designator>
|
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<label>Freedom From Influence Fund.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7AB5C798C95B4CA087963BD5BA594222" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 542. </designator>
|
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<label>Reviews and reports by Government Accountability Office.</label>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H00CE84A1E698476D97890E7E1298091D" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 543. </designator>
|
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<label>Administration by Commission.</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC6B082863BDD4F5F942ECA1C45EAD7F7" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 544. </designator>
|
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<label>Violations and penalties.</label>
|
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<designator>“Sec. 545. </designator>
|
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<label>Appeals process.</label>
|
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|
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<designator>“Sec. 546. </designator>
|
||
<label>Indexing of amounts.</label>
|
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|
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<designator>“Sec. 547. </designator>
|
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<label>Election cycle defined.”</label>
|
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<designator>Sec. 5112. </designator>
|
||
<label>Contributions and expenditures by multicandidate and political party committees on behalf of participating candidates.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFB5283FB9DBC40F2A70208AFDC9CA9D5" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5113. </designator>
|
||
<label>Prohibiting use of contributions by participating candidates for purposes other than campaign for election.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H608A97FF8BC644098E7FDAA36CB14EA9" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5114. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Presidential Elections</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H51F519142BF4492B8B38D6AF0F44FAD3" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5200. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCE61EB47D478497F81429550FF791CE9" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Primary Elections</inline></label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE5D6CB5DDFE14F74B0ED95E9C7FFB37C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5201. </designator>
|
||
<label>Increase in and modifications to matching payments.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5B433CC186C44C9CBB57641119CB22C3" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Eligibility requirements for matching payments.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9450DF1F64EA40F9BA7205BF6C6E4029" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5203. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of expenditure limitations.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD78811AF76044849B779CB7681CC10AE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5204. </designator>
|
||
<label>Period of availability of matching payments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6215B803E3F9401FA8023C08DBADD790" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5205. </designator>
|
||
<label>Examination and audits of matchable contributions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCD875570CC6F4FB680508C531D7145C5" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5206. </designator>
|
||
<label>Modification to limitation on contributions for Presidential primary candidates.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2344565C4DEE4E9AA6FADEB0F3F9486E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5207. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0EF9388529B549C38CF3144997B10386" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">General Elections</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H68E375A98C234FB985801D6AF96D238A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5211. </designator>
|
||
<label>Modification of eligibility requirements for public financing.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAA71BE873156498CB396DB10C64694A6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5212. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of expenditure limitations and use of qualified campaign contributions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0C074509BFAE4CC6B330384BB2D8ECDC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5213. </designator>
|
||
<label>Matching payments and other modifications to payment amounts.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H60F389AE1D774A769D5AE8547C7DB8E4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5214. </designator>
|
||
<label>Increase in limit on coordinated party expenditures.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7CE3D4171ABE41718A8BBEBFBD25676B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5215. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of uniform date for release of payments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H07431343FC864B308B2B0B678A2A2856" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5216. </designator>
|
||
<label>Amounts in Presidential Election Campaign Fund.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0227A1D17E6E421192A7BCB212E445CF" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5217. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of general election payments for general election legal and accounting compliance.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A7CBF873ABA4B1CAEEA9B980F3E8E10" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5218. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7DE6C53BD44448648B60D9E6CEF90E1E" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6760CE1400964AC09ABF5EB10E89804E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5221. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A38B2497B5E4213B6B3A0EA4E56ECFA" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Personal Use Services as Authorized Campaign Expenditures</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H42454F8417D34A6EA1FEB17EFF95F6BF" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; findings; purpose.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H75FBD98523AA4EEBAB6E285D25A70AB2" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of payments for child care and other personal use services as authorized campaign expenditure.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5BBE9F0C7BB043B6B9B7798A978C407A" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFD43D982F872428192668654A86072E3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 5401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H856262EB75BA4A33BD142E5A81A8575F" role="title">
|
||
<designator>TITLE VI—</designator><label>CAMPAIGN FINANCE OVERSIGHT</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1E09243E71B24D9898DD605F89089A65" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Restoring Integrity to America’s Elections</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H850A91165E1A4605B8AF13E86F4AED04" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H74D1CF3645684519A0C2C8D4F5FC8B3C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6002. </designator>
|
||
<label>Membership of Federal Election Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H70079089F66B4FF3BE58A8C73694AF1E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6003. </designator>
|
||
<label>Assignment of powers to Chair of Federal Election Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H726B89FDB7BF4ACEA28795163A67E37F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6004. </designator>
|
||
<label>Revision to enforcement process.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H09D8B6F0C2B948BDB7203806C240ABB9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6005. </designator>
|
||
<label>Permitting appearance at hearings on requests for advisory opinions by persons opposing the requests.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0CC91C3B6962498E8643993C0FD5F045" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6006. </designator>
|
||
<label>Permanent extension of administrative penalty authority.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFF03602A7DCD4C07AD786FA85EEF8339" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6007. </designator>
|
||
<label>Restrictions on ex parte communications.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HBDAEDAB4F8BF417A8810E3DB31B2E9B8" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6008. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date; transition.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H58CFABE67A8D4E6CB8975DF8896EFB91" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Stopping Super PAC-Candidate Coordination</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAC54F449C6314E1DA6CC045BD533677B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H88359EC4DA294EC0A962368EEBCAC267" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Clarification of treatment of coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H4FCC0137412048FC81CF7A5A41469AC7" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6103. </designator>
|
||
<label>Clarification of ban on fundraising for super PACs by Federal candidates and officeholders.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3CB0338C961E448A86C95D7377282501" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3BE66827B4E740E394C0D235A0FA15BE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 6201. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HDCC2839245C14A23B6B26577CBE6DA21" role="division">
|
||
<designator>DIVISION C—</designator><label>ETHICS</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>TITLE VII—</designator><label>[RESERVED]</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>TITLE VIII—</designator><label>[RESERVED]</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>TITLE IX—</designator><label>CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS REFORM</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H58B6BE7E0C5449A889B022DD9A20AF99" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Requiring Members of Congress to Reimburse Treasury for Amounts Paid as Settlements and Awards Under Congressional Accountability Act of 1995</label>
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
<designator>Sec. 9001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requiring Members of Congress to reimburse Treasury for amounts paid as settlements and awards under Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 in all cases of employment discrimination acts by Members.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9D868557B88D4506BD8BC154383C2187" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Conflicts of Interests</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB4079C4CB69C46D9ADB7ED69CB0BD3A2" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9101. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2A33E658682D4808901BB444840E01C0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Conflict of interest rules for Members of Congress and congressional staff.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFA5B63F39B3347228DFF4682C47E88F6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9103. </designator>
|
||
<label>Exercise of rulemaking powers.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H99E3B29FA383426188DC7CCDBAEBBD61" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Campaign Finance and Lobbying Disclosure</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6DA4BC53771F4F87B7CE9D792DA78374" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9201. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H53BE1102ED5942A19B506E906BFB7C56" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requiring disclosure in certain reports filed with Federal Election Commission of persons who are registered lobbyists.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB069F559F909430F9615C0EE367F6799" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9203. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H43BBE05D243F4A24AA73DBC2E750EA9D" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H05734357B2954643A70DE79076138473" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9FFC5C82AA594B7FA9D9780CFB55126A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Definitions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC415CC4A46B54B40A8E902DA7FEC00A4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9303. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of online portal for congressionally mandated reports.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE2698EB1860F4CF6951E973B5B4EDB89" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9304. </designator>
|
||
<label>Federal agency responsibilities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCF2233BF720544CAB47EE7FD298401E8" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9305. </designator>
|
||
<label>Removing and altering reports.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H64A44A4DC9E54B3CAF596FDBE9205470" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9306. </designator>
|
||
<label>Relationship to the Freedom of Information Act.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H37E566FBD2B5475C936464AB842955A0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9307. </designator>
|
||
<label>Implementation.</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD940DD1133A5475C9E0BAC19BB839B7A" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
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|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD3F2A7FE30CC43218B719DC175F42AE6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 9401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
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|
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<designator>TITLE X—</designator><label>[RESERVED]</label>
|
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|
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<division identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA" id="HCE27083CF4E6450583BC1B7015A5FC1E"><num value="A">DIVISION A—</num><heading>VOTING</heading>
|
||
<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI" id="H846F829530B1478A89A84266F73E8FE7"><num value="I">TITLE I—</num><heading class="inline">ELECTION ACCESS</heading>
|
||
<toc idref="H846F829530B1478A89A84266F73E8FE7">
|
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<referenceItem idref="HB59A6638B13641B088BA41A6D13D1D59" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 1000. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; statement of policy.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HBA616054C48341099206FA698E5B1D38" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Voter Registration Modernization</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="H4CC6C58037B74839B8902CC18F91CFB6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1000A. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H857D6B1F2CE8458580AA65B63DCE1AFB" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Promoting Internet Registration</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HDC400C49E7B84037BF2FCA8DD89AFC47" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requiring availability of Internet for voter registration.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H65B56EE0F0BD43C88FE12B0B103D9763" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1002. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of Internet to update registration information.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H87DA3C8E9097455E8F13C111B8F68C01" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1003. </designator>
|
||
<label>Provision of election information by electronic mail to individuals registered to vote.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCCA69C44C4B149A587DD436C7B10C491" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1004. </designator>
|
||
<label>Clarification of requirement regarding necessary information to show eligibility to vote.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H0F16C399554E44BA9BE7140E96DF575F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1005. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H77AB7E8011014B7197BE0160C7CF4654" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic Voter Registration</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H33AA15728EF7423FA32F21E0B61B9654" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1011. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; findings and purpose.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H749DDAE19B554CA8AD85A52232E77A0D" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1012. </designator>
|
||
<label>Automatic registration of eligible individuals.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA9FB66B0A2DD4B70886B7834F921CAB2" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1013. </designator>
|
||
<label>Contributing agency assistance in registration.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H53F77FC33C104191A321CEB91AE92094" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1014. </designator>
|
||
<label>One-time contributing agency assistance in registration of eligible voters in existing records.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H6619A20126B84C94AE5707BBC6F6A2FF" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1015. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voter protection and security in automatic registration.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H82652E5B440246BA9FBB69EAD11B2729" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1016. </designator>
|
||
<label>Registration portability and correction.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCA4878D8A1E94E0D976BEC46CC16E63C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1017. </designator>
|
||
<label>Payments and grants.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H535614BCBD3D4D019E020EE35F3481E6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1018. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of exempt States.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H7454415C064A45BB9F28B83373282339" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1019. </designator>
|
||
<label>Miscellaneous provisions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H660B649EAF364A91A8F117DE864F809A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1020. </designator>
|
||
<label>Definitions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA4497FF547CF4506A7B73E12149D54B9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1021. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HBC413CF6518C43DAA8C0470161201FAB" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Same Day Voter Registration</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H4B88028CDD0642A7AC235F174DAF64ED" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1031. </designator>
|
||
<label>Same day registration.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H50B8A5E6796044DFBF686528CE586D8C" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 4</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions on Removal on Basis of Interstate Cross-Checks</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HBD4B3A57FD504F57B97D000819F069F0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1041. </designator>
|
||
<label>Conditions on removal of registrants from official list of eligible voters on basis of interstate cross-checks.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H608A943B40A7495B83A4ED81DB28199B" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 5</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Other Initiatives to Promote Voter Registration</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H555811141D57472B936B8B683BBA788E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1051. </designator>
|
||
<label>Annual reports on voter registration statistics.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H880FEC5DF1E64329A4D64116EC1DF22E" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 6</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of HAVA Requirements Payments</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H606188D97ACD4660B677AD831CD9AE2B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1061. </designator>
|
||
<label>Availability of requirements payments under HAVA to cover costs of compliance with new requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H98B665DD4D6E48C1AF369F171A77C1A5" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 7</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting Interference With Voter Registration </inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H0D7737F713EE46BE9E5B24E1AAFA3E05" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1071. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE8FE9FDC9E8E40AA91BE4867DCF5D06C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1072. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of best practices.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE6A0788151AD4089A8FAC09ABB8FB154" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Access to Voting for Individuals With Disabilities</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCE2747AFBAB54D1DBD1E8DED3BC09CC8" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requirements for States to promote access to voter registration and voting for individuals with disabilities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE2882075CAB640D1B939B7C6A1E4FC70" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion and reauthorization of grant program to assure voting access for individuals with disabilities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC273BEAFCDCC4DD0AC2A7E1746BF0633" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Prohibiting Voter Caging</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H71F0954BE5414967B62B73FDFB1E73F4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1201. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H384DB5818C574D22A78B389096EC3202" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Development and adoption of best practices for preventing voter caging.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H8C5E400B1ECC4D95AF485490C28CACAF" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCCDD95B1D6434EA4B32F6A71DD9B8B43" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H378565CB5BC1429FBF16FB0F309E2020" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Promoting Accuracy, Integrity, and Security Through Voter-Verified Permanent Paper Ballot</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC8542B11B82F402489AE3FD4BC4E2D6C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1501. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA7654DB6A0B34CAA9F83DAB379D417B3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Paper ballot and manual counting requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H62A7A050E2EB43F5B76892BD564BA687" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1503. </designator>
|
||
<label>Accessibility and ballot verification for individuals with disabilities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H8F00654812B34A09BBFC4CE8224CC380" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1504. </designator>
|
||
<label>Durability and readability requirements for ballots.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HBA5CF1CE86984515923AFAC066F0F33F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1505. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date for new requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC041C9758ABD47CD9DD1DF5FC0275E55" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>Provisional Ballots</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HD0F24FF206C545A1AC2432F68EE9BA29" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1601. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requirements for counting provisional ballots; establishment of uniform and nondiscriminatory standards.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HEB0E861350B74A72A6542E64D00D8003" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Early Voting</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HDF5D1D039D52449A87C72F7ADF1C39BA" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1611. </designator>
|
||
<label>Early voting.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HDAB0724110094D808D2D3484C75055F4" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle I—</designator><label>Voting by Mail</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H6ABDA5F4AD794A1A81EE6E589D582209" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1621. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voting by Mail.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H7D7FE6B248B84E82B0EB02A8C0098A9A" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle J—</designator><label>Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H403FAE50948B46D8BAF6F32137DB475D" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1701. </designator>
|
||
<label>Pre-election reports on availability and transmission of absentee ballots.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H84837E828E594EBC9E3253725A0A1F59" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1702. </designator>
|
||
<label>Enforcement.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H70601E53608C4DD7B1B03357BBE9CB7F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1703. </designator>
|
||
<label>Revisions to 45-day absentee ballot transmission rule.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA5A8E32C75424DCA98A5426B65B19E83" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1704. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of single absentee ballot application for subsequent elections.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H0195CB52E4EB439083A36C9A3DDD64F1" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1705. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HB9664C8D8F154A7AB2F3F0379737C637" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle K—</designator><label>Poll Worker Recruitment and Training</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H755147672F43495DB187F9E19F49D2B2" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1801. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE206A14BF98443DB851D4EC2F45350E0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1802. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants to States for poll worker recruitment and training.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H54A14B1F9BBF4D2CBC4DEEEEEB5ABDD6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1803. </designator>
|
||
<label>State defined.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H7340507BCA8B4302A6E1B6774A8E14FD" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle L—</designator><label>Enhancement of Enforcement</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H7465D85BA59A4257A04BE93EEF57E110" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1811. </designator>
|
||
<label>Enhancement of enforcement of Help America Vote Act of 2002.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H47DAF37E07CC4231B76A0D567A5821E7" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle M—</designator><label>Federal Election Integrity</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H14E49AC589B84C3BBBF5D0D2980B751B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1821. </designator>
|
||
<label>Prohibition on campaign activities by chief State election administration officials.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H61B8DACD7FD54A03B66EEE368033AC29" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle N—</designator><label>Promoting Voter Access Through Election Administration Improvements</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H4CD018876A284961A76B7F25D2C0BA05" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Promoting Voter Access</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H7017B4835A9D4225B2A92572432A38B9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1901. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of institutions of higher education.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H8C338F1BCDD940C980A9015DE9AC790D" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1902. </designator>
|
||
<label>Minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H05A4592665264046BD526613D72338C3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1903. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H4666C5B55047496F9A50F236A65EAFEB" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1904. </designator>
|
||
<label>Permitting use of sworn written statement to meet identification requirements for voting.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HF69F1A27F89D4B639ABB9DFB67BAFB82" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1905. </designator>
|
||
<label>[Reserved].</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H52C64D9BF7A042B49F72FCBFE0B6A7B0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1906. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reimbursement for costs incurred by States in establishing program to track and confirm receipt of absentee ballots.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H592861FE85A3429F8AA5713BB0F372A3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1907. </designator>
|
||
<label>Voter information response systems and hotline.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HEBF19D7C62DB4DC8A5A994A5E72F956A" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Improvements in Operation of Election Assistance Commission</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HD22D13F5CD22437D8E2B1E67627184F4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1911. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reauthorization of Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HF67871185D564C26A5301ED92781AD6A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1913. </designator>
|
||
<label>Requiring states to participate in post-general election surveys.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCFADF054074B44E2B57100ECCE5DB2C0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1914. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reports by National Institute of Standards and Technology on use of funds transferred from Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H65AE09190D01497896FA7CEBE4E9E3C3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1915. </designator>
|
||
<label>Recommendations to improve operations of Election Assistance Commission.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H159EC3B3131843D2BD36A42DBBA71B24" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1916. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of exemption of Election Assistance Commission from certain government contracting requirements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H047A1E5906F64C3EBC9AEF8FC65B3AAD" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Miscellaneous Provisions</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H8033D0BC4FB34EE9B39ED25A166D268E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1921. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of laws to Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA74B1FF31E734115A9210BCB38FA76B3" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 1922. </designator>
|
||
<label>No effect on other laws.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HFDEC6C5F801543AF84D8B7872B60282E" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle O—</designator><label>Severability</label>
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<designator>Sec. 1931. </designator>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/s1000" id="HB59A6638B13641B088BA41A6D13D1D59"><num value="1000">SEC. 1000. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE; STATEMENT OF POLICY.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/s1000/a" id="HE6C9810BF5584D418BD26682F5F355DC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Short Title</inline>.—</heading><content>This title may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="title">Voter Empowerment Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/s1000/b" id="H90BAD0CB3990419E947785E2F2B7E917" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Statement of Policy</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>It is the policy of the United States that—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/s1000/b/1" id="H87CF9D31FAE84537B4FFAED76F9635C4" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>all eligible citizens of the United States should access and exercise their constitutional right to vote in a free, fair, and timely manner; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/s1000/b/2" id="H66A22B0D2820415890B01C9F7812571E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>the integrity, security, and accountability of the voting process must be vigilantly protected, maintained, and enhanced in order to protect and preserve electoral and participatory democracy in the United States.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA" id="HBA616054C48341099206FA698E5B1D38"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Voter Registration Modernization</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/s1000A" id="H4CC6C58037B74839B8902CC18F91CFB6"><num value="1000A">SEC. 1000A. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1" id="H857D6B1F2CE8458580AA65B63DCE1AFB"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>PROMOTING INTERNET REGISTRATION</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001" id="HDC400C49E7B84037BF2FCA8DD89AFC47"><num value="1001">SEC. 1001. </num><heading>REQUIRING AVAILABILITY OF INTERNET FOR VOTER REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/a" id="H8683733E0F174A7AB5EFAF9A7B884FEB" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Availability of Internet for Registration</inline>.—</heading><content>The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20501/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20501 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 6 the following new section:
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<section id="H780671021DE44848A1E7CB63DB7DB1C5"><num value="6A">“SEC. 6A. </num><heading>INTERNET REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection id="H5FE1CEE09D5949E9A1B794F50C171611" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Availability of Internet for Online Registration</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HEA75B6FE25B943BDAB724607E74BB4E5" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of online registration and correction of existing registration information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each State, acting through the chief State election official, shall ensure that the following services are available to the public at any time on the official public websites of the appropriate State and local election officials in the State, in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions as the services provided by voter registration agencies under section 7(a):</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HC29B316DF7C5479E91FD976EB2227107" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Online application for voter registration.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0D4550CD5FFE4575B3E99A9EAA1768DD" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Online assistance to applicants in applying to register to vote.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6A075195441C4C8291AFC6EB25FA2546" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Online completion and submission by applicants of the mail voter registration application form prescribed by the Election Assistance Commission pursuant to section 9(a)(2), including assistance with providing a signature as required under subsection (c).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HED781910881C4C82A21A241B795E3C3F" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>Online receipt of completed voter registration applications.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HC74B8DBB515E497BA74D2A0494D416A5" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Acceptance of Completed Applications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State shall accept an online voter registration application provided by an individual under this section, and ensure that the individual is registered to vote in the State, if—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HFDA40F7CF89D40D5AA331A2A715923AA" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the individual meets the same voter registration requirements applicable to individuals who register to vote by mail in accordance with section 6(a)(1) using the mail voter registration application form prescribed by the Election Assistance Commission pursuant to section 9(a)(2); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF728FABC7F4547C3BA31DC78EDE38D69" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>the individual meets the requirements of subsection (c) to provide a signature in electronic form (but only in the case of applications submitted during or after the second year in which this section is in effect in the State).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H693F5C695D174625ADD8195C4F4A7FFD" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Signature Requirements</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB9D6009B2E6540B3A192DA9506893EB7" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this section, an individual meets the requirements of this subsection as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HF7797597D109404180B1DF516A647980" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>In the case of an individual who has a signature on file with a State agency, including the State motor vehicle authority, that is required to provide voter registration services under this Act or any other law, the individual consents to the transfer of that electronic signature.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H68FF1C07B58945BA9571BA69101DF0E9" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>If subparagraph (A) does not apply, the individual submits with the application an electronic copy of the individual’s handwritten signature through electronic means.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HEEF204D5A24641DD926FF0A599801C2B" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>If subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (B) do not apply, the individual executes a computerized mark in the signature field on an online voter registration application, in accordance with reasonable security measures established by the State, but only if the State accepts such mark from the individual.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H0A699FF8531C48DC915847EAB02E6EEF" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of individuals unable to meet requirement</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If an individual is unable to meet the requirements of paragraph (1), the State shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H7EF934C0C1B447A183CDFDB2AC9B42F0" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>permit the individual to complete all other elements of the online voter registration application;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB80BE663F8D945A1B6E8BD8414B1B947" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>permit the individual to provide a signature at the time the individual requests a ballot in an election (whether the individual requests the ballot at a polling place or requests the ballot by mail); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB303A13855254C6884B5E025DCA2AAB8" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>if the individual carries out the steps described in subparagraph (A) and subparagraph (B), ensure that the individual is registered to vote in the State.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H326DD8E5FD5C4DB58FC88EC191D6B9F5" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice</inline>.—</heading><content>The State shall ensure that individuals applying to register to vote online are notified of the requirements of paragraph (1) and of the treatment of individuals unable to meet such requirements, as described in paragraph (2).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H1D1923459B394145B8BF8EF9686997A8" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confirmation and Disposition</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H29BC0957D23A44F8AC94B24DBD65BC29" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confirmation of receipt</inline>.—</heading><content>Upon the online submission of a completed voter registration application by an individual under this section, the appropriate State or local election official shall send the individual a notice confirming the State’s receipt of the application and providing instructions on how the individual may check the status of the application.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H536A5AFB1C7E440CA2D895A4D3D3E56B" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice of disposition</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 7 days after the appropriate State or local election official has approved or rejected an application submitted by an individual under this section, the official shall send the individual a notice of the disposition of the application.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HAC56A51F786546829A35201743CFA404" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Method of notification</inline>.—</heading><content>The appropriate State or local election official shall send the notices required under this subsection by regular mail, and, in the case of an individual who has provided the official with an electronic mail address, by both electronic mail and regular mail.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD69D1F0000004C729861DE416E7D4D64" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Provision of Services in Nonpartisan Manner</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The services made available under subsection (a) shall be provided in a manner that ensures that, consistent with section 7(a)(5)—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HC629488FC5DF43B4BF28FCBE03FF8499" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the online application does not seek to influence an applicant’s political preference or party registration; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6C11D9895B944A2894BCF76786334BB2" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>there is no display on the website promoting any political preference or party allegiance, except that nothing in this paragraph may be construed to prohibit an applicant from registering to vote as a member of a political party.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7BCCDB704C4C409D94B5742864504C74" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Protection of Security of Information</inline>.—</heading><content>In meeting the requirements of this section, the State shall establish appropriate technological security measures to prevent to the greatest extent practicable any unauthorized access to information provided by individuals using the services made available under subsection (a).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H4A8C6CF6C389451B89EAEAFE15EDDA39" class="indent0"><num value="g">“(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Accessibility of Services</inline>.—</heading><content>A state shall ensure that the services made available under this section are made available to individuals with disabilities to the same extent as services are made available to all other individuals.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HB5237CE668C54DB99B67A38D2F6FE0B2" class="indent0"><num value="h">“(h) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Additional Telephone-Based System</inline>.—</heading><content>A State shall make the services made available online under subsection (a) available through the use of an automated telephone-based system, subject to the same terms and conditions applicable under this section to the services made available online, in addition to making the services available online in accordance with the requirements of this section.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H73AE1FBBEE9E474FAB08BE6BF43317E3" class="indent0"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Nondiscrimination Among Registered Voters Using Mail and Online Registration</inline>.—</heading><content>In carrying out this Act, the Help America Vote Act of 2002, or any other Federal, State, or local law governing the treatment of registered voters in the State or the administration of elections for public office in the State, a State shall treat a registered voter who registered to vote online in accordance with this section in the same manner as the State treats a registered voter who registered to vote by mail.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b" id="H4FCA2C3FFF064916A6BFCA3F1A6AF716" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special Requirements for Individuals Using Online Registration</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b/1" id="HA72F874907B7456FBBF02B734B871A15" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment as individuals registering to vote by mail for purposes of first-time voter identification requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(b)(1)(A) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/b/1/A">52 U.S.C. 21083(b)(1)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>by mail</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>by mail or online under section 6A of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b/2" id="H68AE36DC549B4761BF699FF97A12EA25" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring signature for first-time voters in jurisdiction</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 303(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/b">52 U.S.C. 21083(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b/2/A" id="HBC86AC915CB440E9A5B45EAEDC24E64D" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b/2/B" id="H7690283B92B8410686AEDA4ECBBE7D7B" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HC3199D6A67DD4FF298E3B42BFB43B90C" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Signature requirements for first-time voters using online registration</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H3B0FE4402C934284B39E6EDF1CB5782E" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State shall, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, require an individual to meet the requirements of subparagraph (B) if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H6FC70B8B813C4A6CA7F7CECB9DB03A54" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the individual registered to vote in the State online under section 6A of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HD6D9AC159D274616A5CC935FC5C9FCE1" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the individual has not previously voted in an election for Federal office in the State.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H07204FA4A7BF45A5BBE1C9B39AE2D5C8" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An individual meets the requirements of this subparagraph if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H6D8F40FFF2304F26B8B4F38F9039977C" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>in the case of an individual who votes in person, the individual provides the appropriate State or local election official with a handwritten signature; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H76D750E50F3F4B27AD643DAAED9E394E" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>in the case of an individual who votes by mail, the individual submits with the ballot a handwritten signature.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6C37026C0DB744B8819DB5015A020E17" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inapplicability</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subparagraph (A) does not apply in the case of an individual who is—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H3D491E24A2BC49E69F6BFD5D5E9FA39D" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20302 et seq.</ref>);</content></clause>
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<clause id="H77B5734BA7854140901F19FDF02535F4" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>provided the right to vote otherwise than in person under section 3(b)(2)(B)(ii) of the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20102/b/2/B/ii">52 U.S.C. 20102(b)(2)(B)(ii)</ref>); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HEAC9B0DFF19A4B1983550A87DE28EC07" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>entitled to vote otherwise than in person under any other Federal law.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/b/3" id="H00195FF752D94A4281B00CA3E3B9C623" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(d)(2)(A) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/d/2/A">52 U.S.C. 21083(d)(2)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Each State</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Except as provided in subsection (b)(5), each State</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c" id="H0F01C2EB11874FA6AF2982FACBE00E0A" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c/1" id="HCE06FF8F5D424B4E923E4616C5E386E6" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Timing of registration</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 8(a)(1) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a/1">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c/1/A" id="H714BACD5CE4347F9BCBF71C528CB5A1D" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (C);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c/1/B" id="H8A8AE34BE3A44E66877753C2AFED74D3" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c/1/C" id="HB61F1466C0C54D29B5A0E9CF54A747E0" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="H06F565DD5E2F48B98F49E5575735CCC3" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>in the case of online registration through the official public website of an election official under section 6A, if the valid voter registration application is submitted online not later than the lesser of 30 days, or the period provided by State law, before the date of the election (as determined by treating the date on which the application is sent electronically as the date on which it is submitted); and”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1001/c/2" id="H457FE03D9C624C0F9BF12323CCCB96A2" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Informing applicants of eligibility requirements and penalties</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 8(a)(5) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a/5">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(5)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and 7</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>6A, and 7</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002" id="H65B56EE0F0BD43C88FE12B0B103D9763"><num value="1002">SEC. 1002. </num><heading>USE OF INTERNET TO UPDATE REGISTRATION INFORMATION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/a" id="HE585993EA9C04D83ADA03D085DD95C96" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/a/1" id="H483B88301E2D41E9AD9A6713698DC4D0" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Updates to information contained on computerized statewide voter registration list</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/a">52 U.S.C. 21083(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H8948C6B0E72242D4AAD5C1B2CC494F81" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of internet by registered voters to update information</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HFB6EA3C7E54141BF9DDEC35CDB2EAA8A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The appropriate State or local election official shall ensure that any registered voter on the computerized list may at any time update the voter’s registration information, including the voter’s address and electronic mail address, online through the official public website of the election official responsible for the maintenance of the list, so long as the voter attests to the contents of the update by providing a signature in electronic form in the same manner required under section 6A(c) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB0DF0B0B029640B4A369433CB115C9D9" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Processing of updated information by election officials</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a registered voter updates registration information under subparagraph (A), the appropriate State or local election official shall—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HB9CF1309CAAC4FE3A942BC0CF7CF8B7B" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>revise any information on the computerized list to reflect the update made by the voter; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HE6B86B291F054AA8B31EA3C122D0CC9F" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>if the updated registration information affects the voter’s eligibility to vote in an election for Federal office, ensure that the information is processed with respect to the election if the voter updates the information not later than the lesser of 7 days, or the period provided by State law, before the date of the election.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF8E067D79A2E4A56B9BC8C0672EC9B4C" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confirmation and disposition</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H98B5D73E4C714D29B1061E1AC7BDB6EA" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confirmation of receipt</inline>.—</heading><content>Upon the online submission of updated registration information by an individual under this paragraph, the appropriate State or local election official shall send the individual a notice confirming the State’s receipt of the updated information and providing instructions on how the individual may check the status of the update.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HAE1E06683EC640D4B226946413103FE6" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice of disposition</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 7 days after the appropriate State or local election official has accepted or rejected updated information submitted by an individual under this paragraph, the official shall send the individual a notice of the disposition of the update.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HE5190EF900EF4B078E32FA01B005B1B8" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Method of notification</inline>.—</heading><content>The appropriate State or local election official shall send the notices required under this subparagraph by regular mail, and, in the case of an individual who has requested that the State provide voter registration and voting information through electronic mail, by both electronic mail and regular mail.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/a/2" id="H90DFB165FCF6498BAE5C0036BC209FEE" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(d)(1)(A) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/d/1/A">52 U.S.C. 21083(d)(1)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subparagraph (B)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subparagraph (B) and subsection (a)(6)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/b" id="H3F20D3DCB2814657A34B4EBEF38CF52F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Ability of Registrant To Use Online Update To Provide Information on Residence</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 8(d)(2)(A) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/d/2/A">52 U.S.C. 20507(d)(2)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/b/1" id="H2E5FE489A95540DBADA1616DF4FAD815" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in the first sentence, by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after “<quotedText>return the card</quotedText>” the following: “<quotedText>or update the registrant’s information on the computerized Statewide voter registration list using the online method provided under section 303(a)(6) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1002/b/2" id="H8926E09901BE45E1BBF38D033B2E11F7" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>in the second sentence, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>returned,</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>returned or if the registrant does not update the registrant’s information on the computerized Statewide voter registration list using such online method,</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003" id="H87DA3C8E9097455E8F13C111B8F68C01"><num value="1003">SEC. 1003. </num><heading>PROVISION OF ELECTION INFORMATION BY ELECTRONIC MAIL TO INDIVIDUALS REGISTERED TO VOTE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a" id="H381F9E08FF90473D97E8C1BB07BB9408" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Including Option on Voter Registration Application To Provide E–Mail Address and Receive Information</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a/1" id="HA4196FE239564BEE874A663C7095A8F2" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20508/b">52 U.S.C. 20508(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a/1/A" id="H3B2E4124605A4E379AEDEEE9F85EAD00" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (3);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a/1/B" id="HA8AD3EC155AD4A2BA0B5FD790694F130" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (4) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a/1/C" id="HAD20D68353EF4E6B83DC2BAF7621930F" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H5FFCCA5CFB9A4A7295FBF63CE8A16DC6" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>shall include a space for the applicant to provide (at the applicant’s option) an electronic mail address, together with a statement that, if the applicant so requests, instead of using regular mail the appropriate State and local election officials shall provide to the applicant, through electronic mail sent to that address, the same voting information (as defined in section 302(b)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002) which the officials would provide to the applicant through regular mail.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/a/2" id="HD4CD859CB29B4B2194CBF4CA2CCE2CC1" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting use for purposes unrelated to official duties of election officials</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20508">52 U.S.C. 20508</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HB03537A5F1844DE49B0F0070839F2792" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="H04AC875EE2E9430EA8252548A52ACD2C" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting Use of Electronic Mail Addresses for Other Than Official Purposes</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief State election official shall ensure that any electronic mail address provided by an applicant under subsection (b)(5) is used only for purposes of carrying out official duties of election officials and is not transmitted by any State or local election official (or any agent of such an official, including a contractor) to any person who does not require the address to carry out such official duties and who is not under the direct supervision and control of a State or local election official.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1003/b" id="H18835F3A81654BFD87D14348BF9DFD22" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Provision of Information by Election Officials</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 302(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/b">52 U.S.C. 21082(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H04FFC80CFE86479A92B7173AFF881ED6" styleType="OLC">
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<paragraph id="H311B99CD442C4037BD9E5C10D1088B63" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Provision of other information by electronic mail</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If an individual who is a registered voter has provided the State or local election official with an electronic mail address for the purpose of receiving voting information (as described in section 9(b)(5) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993), the appropriate State or local election official, through electronic mail transmitted not later than 7 days before the date of the election for Federal office involved, shall provide the individual with information on how to obtain the following information by electronic means:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HE2017AC6C25E4FBDAE254C2A3428108F" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The name and address of the polling place at which the individual is assigned to vote in the election.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9D7BB04F9A8A4370ADA48349DD9E1D8D" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The hours of operation for the polling place.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HBAB2D117A20448E5B289D65F16909B3D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>A description of any identification or other information the individual may be required to present at the polling place.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1004" id="HCCA69C44C4B149A587DD436C7B10C491"><num value="1004">SEC. 1004. </num><heading>CLARIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT REGARDING NECESSARY INFORMATION TO SHOW ELIGIBILITY TO VOTE.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507">52 U.S.C. 20507</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1004/1" id="HC757F6E2ACC74C46B040AF1D8298831D" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (j) as subsection (k); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1004/2" id="H4C8A75D89DC04F53BE7A02C2B802558B" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (i) the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H779A6919CE8E4E1A905F15BFF8F34E62" class="indent0"><num value="j">“(j) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement for State To Register Applicants Providing Necessary Information To Show Eligibility To Vote</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes meeting the requirement of subsection (a)(1) that an eligible applicant is registered to vote in an election for Federal office within the deadlines required under such subsection, the State shall consider an applicant to have provided a ‘valid voter registration form’ if—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H4E30F96A265B41A18292088E1BDE575E" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the applicant has substantially completed the application form and attested to the statement required by section 9(b)(2); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H634B413714994BB8B7314F4FB5B46328" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>in the case of an applicant who registers to vote online in accordance with section 6A, the applicant provides a signature in accordance with subsection (c) of such section.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1005" id="H0F16C399554E44BA9BE7140E96DF575F"><num value="1005">SEC. 1005. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1005/a" id="H54D4FC8E26234C39ABA52EED1D827BF9" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subsection (b), the amendments made by this part (other than the amendments made by section 1004) shall take effect January 1, 2020.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt1/s1005/b" id="H83D9240EE6E148F38E07AF9C896002BE" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Waiver</inline>.—</heading><content>Subject to the approval of the Election Assistance Commission, if a State certifies to the Election Assistance Commission that the State will not meet the deadline referred to in subsection (a) because of extraordinary circumstances and includes in the certification the reasons for the failure to meet the deadline, subsection (a) shall apply to the State as if the reference in such subsection to “January 1, 2020” were a reference to “January 1, 2022”.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2" id="H77AB7E8011014B7197BE0160C7CF4654"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011" id="H33AA15728EF7423FA32F21E0B61B9654"><num value="1011">SEC. 1011. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/a" id="HBD8F51BFA1C34D6485078556F604B58F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Short Title</inline>.—</heading><content>This part may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="part">Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b" id="H302AB3727D744E2CAD457843450BA9BD" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Findings and Purpose</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/1" id="H1A4A448BE62E460A9853AEEAB36E533E" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress finds that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/1/A" id="H2933A8FE89A14186A5F2C960D9A6BDE6" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>the right to vote is a fundamental right of citizens of the United States;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/1/B" id="HC2A8BFD4549E46C9A1BBBA6AFA577053" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>it is the responsibility of the State and Federal Governments to ensure that every eligible citizen is registered to vote;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/1/C" id="HC46BDACBC9C841CBB97D4D2B8ACC7536" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>existing voter registration systems can be inaccurate, costly, inaccessible and confusing, with damaging effects on voter participation in elections and disproportionate impacts on young people, persons with disabilities, and racial and ethnic minorities; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/1/D" id="H979003895B11468F81D58E7D56D49C9E" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>voter registration systems must be updated with 21st Century technologies and procedures to maintain their security.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/2" id="HEFD71F1E204643F48F17E7D83EB434A8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Purpose</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>It is the purpose of this part—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/2/A" id="H9DD32654815D4FF5B4B147ED57EFFC07" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>to establish that it is the responsibility of government at every level to ensure that all eligible citizens are registered to vote;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/2/B" id="HADA24ACC1BF14BD38BF42A841513165B" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>to enable the State and Federal Governments to register all eligible citizens to vote with accurate, cost-efficient, and up-to-date procedures;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/2/C" id="H586D05F077C34616B0FF161416D7BFA9" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>to modernize voter registration and list maintenance procedures with electronic and Internet capabilities; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1011/b/2/D" id="H1C2FE4BFF30E4ABE980BFD3C9B981B3E" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>to protect and enhance the integrity, accuracy, efficiency, and accessibility of the electoral process for all eligible citizens.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012" id="H749DDAE19B554CA8AD85A52232E77A0D"><num value="1012">SEC. 1012. </num><heading>AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/a" id="HC93C8318A3D9406A9CAEF11E94B22D97" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring States to Establish and Operate Automatic Registration System</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/a/1" id="HF875DD841EBF45A1B317D9035347C7CE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief State election official of each State shall establish and operate a system of automatic registration for the registration of eligible individuals to vote for elections for Federal office in the State, in accordance with the provisions of this part.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/a/2" id="H1F38FEE3CFD14A89B984A4A625675EB8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definition</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>automatic registration</term>” means a system that registers an individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by electronically transferring the information necessary for registration from government agencies to election officials of the State so that, unless the individual affirmatively declines to be registered, the individual will be registered to vote in such elections.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/b" id="H8857F6C6AAC4435085946A5BE8329EE8" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Registration of Voters Based on New Agency Records</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The chief State election official shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/b/1" id="H2B04DEBDAA2847ADB9DBD0B7E69B7705" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>not later than 15 days after a contributing agency has transmitted information with respect to an individual pursuant to section 1013, ensure that the individual is registered to vote in elections for Federal office in the State if the individual is eligible to be registered to vote in such elections; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/b/2" id="H5AB884F5691A4ACFBE6191F424B07791" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>not later than 120 days after a contributing agency has transmitted such information with respect to the individual, send written notice to the individual, in addition to other means of notice established by this part, of the individual’s voter registration status.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c" id="H4B64CA3EF0C4496087F9F26D56604190" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">One-time Registration of Voters Based on Existing Contributing Agency Records</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The chief State election official shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/1" id="H00A5F759C4D5462D900B51D389270A9A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>identify all individuals whose information is transmitted by a contributing agency pursuant to section 1014 and who are eligible to be, but are not currently, registered to vote in that State;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2" id="H74B505EE97EE49D7A216551355314589" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>promptly send each such individual written notice, in addition to other means of notice established by this part, which shall not identify the contributing agency that transmitted the information but shall include—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/A" id="H2881B207EB784D9A96AEC165A657FB97" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>an explanation that voter registration is voluntary, but if the individual does not decline registration, the individual will be registered to vote;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/B" id="H2A4F60A4051A43418A0F129C90987D1C" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>a statement offering the opportunity to decline voter registration through means consistent with the requirements of this part;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/C" id="HA38AFCBBB0874881BA61D3CBD3794AD8" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>in the case of a State in which affiliation or enrollment with a political party is required in order to participate in an election to select the party’s candidate in an election for Federal office, a statement offering the individual the opportunity to affiliate or enroll with a political party or to decline to affiliate or enroll with a political party, through means consistent with the requirements of this part;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/D" id="H8AE7F21BA19A41E997CB58B28E98B35A" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>the substantive qualifications of an elector in the State as listed in the mail voter registration application form for elections for Federal office prescribed pursuant to section 9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the consequences of false registration, and a statement that the individual should decline to register if the individual does not meet all those qualifications;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/E" id="HE6C402AA0F1D447CA2403C1F7C9D5EEC" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>instructions for correcting any erroneous information; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/2/F" id="H4C78A2F62B2E4C22976218FAEE7C4BD6" class="indent2"><num value="F">(F) </num><content>instructions for providing any additional information which is listed in the mail voter registration application form for elections for Federal office prescribed pursuant to section 9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993;</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/3" id="H3E373582B5D647C3A19C96FB75FC9205" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>ensure that each such individual who is eligible to register to vote in elections for Federal office in the State is promptly registered to vote not later than 45 days after the official sends the individual the written notice under paragraph (2), unless, during the 30-day period which begins on the date the election official sends the individual such written notice, the individual declines registration in writing, through a communication made over the Internet, or by an officially-logged telephone communication; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/c/4" id="H4748E19488C74A6787224779646554C3" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>send written notice to each such individual, in addition to other means of notice established by this part, of the individual’s voter registration status.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/d" id="HB5ABC0C78B874978BA435A6F982319A5" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of Individuals Under 18 Years of Age</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may not refuse to treat an individual as an eligible individual for purposes of this part on the grounds that the individual is less than 18 years of age at the time a contributing agency receives information with respect to the individual, so long as the individual is at least 16 years of age at such time.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1012/e" id="H3F9F6FB8B7C44716BF7E7EB4C14C5481" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contributing Agency Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this part, the term “<term>contributing agency</term>” means, with respect to a State, an agency listed in section 1013(e).</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013" id="HA9FB66B0A2DD4B70886B7834F921CAB2"><num value="1013">SEC. 1013. </num><heading>CONTRIBUTING AGENCY ASSISTANCE IN REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/a" id="HEF0740624DD54532A9690A8258152180" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>In accordance with this part, each contributing agency in a State shall assist the State’s chief election official in registering to vote all eligible individuals served by that agency.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b" id="HB1A3AE6D1BE54386BA16173ED429C6E5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for Contributing Agencies</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/1" id="H93A3D01690C9462D91E0339935B4FBD3" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Instructions on automatic registration</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>With each application for service or assistance, and with each related recertification, renewal, or change of address, or, in the case of an institution of higher education, with each registration of a student for enrollment in a course of study, each contributing agency that (in the normal course of its operations) requests individuals to affirm United States citizenship (either directly or as part of the overall application for service or assistance) shall inform each such individual who is a citizen of the United States of the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/1/A" id="H4BC50B60370E443E89BBFCA50FB1D378" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Unless that individual declines to register to vote, or is found ineligible to vote, the individual will be registered to vote or, if applicable, the individual’s registration will be updated.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/1/B" id="HAE42517C696846AF806C167AF99AA87F" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>The substantive qualifications of an elector in the State as listed in the mail voter registration application form for elections for Federal office prescribed pursuant to section 9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the consequences of false registration, and the individual should decline to register if the individual does not meet all those qualifications.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/1/C" id="H5D5DEACE3D484C19971F9657151CE0BB" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>In the case of a State in which affiliation or enrollment with a political party is required in order to participate in an election to select the party’s candidate in an election for Federal office, the requirement that the individual must affiliate or enroll with a political party in order to participate in such an election.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/1/D" id="H469A0C5619A3465AB14150A8B50B59C8" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>Voter registration is voluntary, and neither registering nor declining to register to vote will in any way affect the availability of services or benefits, nor be used for other purposes.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/2" id="HCCC1B47DD79443758DFBBDF7B1185D31" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Opportunity to decline registration required</inline>.—</heading><content>Each contributing agency shall ensure that each application for service or assistance, and each related recertification, renewal, or change of address, or, in the case of an institution of higher education, each registration of a student for enrollment in a course of study, cannot be completed until the individual is given the opportunity to decline to be registered to vote.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3" id="H68706400C90140519CA1BEB1EB0B3F25" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Information transmittal</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Upon the expiration of the 30-day period which begins on the date the contributing agency informs the individual of the information described in paragraph (1), each contributing agency shall electronically transmit to the appropriate State election official, in a format compatible with the statewide voter database maintained under section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083">52 U.S.C. 21083</ref>), the following information, unless during such 30-day period the individual declined to be registered to vote:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/A" id="H9A0D2891341141B997343876E06B076F" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The individual’s given name(s) and surname(s).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/B" id="HAF09CFE8FDFD431EAFE32DB71F450A2E" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>The individual’s date of birth.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/C" id="HF013722986004E8FA562B698FA3C97E7" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>The individual’s residential address.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/D" id="HE6784256B6EB4BDEA3EF34B5C7E340EA" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>Information showing that the individual is a citizen of the United States.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/E" id="H52160BFE23C94056A5AFCD5728EF4ECD" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>The date on which information pertaining to that individual was collected or last updated.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/F" id="H349734B424AE42A7889052DBC7498D25" class="indent2"><num value="F">(F) </num><content>If available, the individual’s signature in electronic form.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/G" id="H139B332EE4634A6BA65CEDD4C32FD192" class="indent2"><num value="G">(G) </num><content>Information regarding the individual’s affiliation or enrollment with a political party, if the individual provides such information.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/b/3/H" id="H35165968788C4E2BA25F92A73C1ED8C1" class="indent2"><num value="H">(H) </num><content>Any additional information listed in the mail voter registration application form for elections for Federal office prescribed pursuant to section 9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, including any valid driver’s license number or the last 4 digits of the individual’s social security number, if the individual provided such information.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/c" id="HE30F5723691E40EE8E401C9B390EEEA2" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Alternate Procedure for Certain Contributing Agencies</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>With each application for service or assistance, and with each related recertification, renewal, or change of address, any contributing agency that in the normal course of its operations does not request individuals applying for service or assistance to affirm United States citizenship (either directly or as part of the overall application for service or assistance) shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/c/1" id="H166B1D4711D744D9B3A6ADBA930CFF01" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>complete the requirements of section 7(a)(6) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20506/a/6">52 U.S.C. 20506(a)(6)</ref>);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/c/2" id="H7AEEF565869346BBB503E1915202B34F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>ensure that each applicant’s transaction with the agency cannot be completed until the applicant has indicated whether the applicant wishes to register to vote or declines to register to vote in elections for Federal office held in the State; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/c/3" id="H347A56C61A764AC7BF0353018CB7A394" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>for each individual who wishes to register to vote, transmit that individual’s information in accordance with subsection (b)(3).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/d" id="HAEF5519C78674C279D33310F19D62316" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Required Availability of Automatic Registration Opportunity With Each Application for Service or Assistance</inline>.—</heading><content>Each contributing agency shall offer each individual, with each application for service or assistance, and with each related recertification, renewal, or change of address, or in the case of an institution of higher education, with each registration of a student for enrollment in a course of study, the opportunity to register to vote as prescribed by this section without regard to whether the individual previously declined a registration opportunity.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e" id="H085DA821084B44669D716F059C631239" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contributing Agencies</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1" id="H84EB264CF8D447A99439DD42120D681C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">State agencies</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In each State, each of the following agencies shall be treated as a contributing agency:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/A" id="HB9C8C74744304FDF9523FA39C92F6E6F" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Each agency in a State that is required by Federal law to provide voter registration services, including the State motor vehicle authority and other voter registration agencies under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/B" id="H9398B40259D4479ABC6C2153FC2AC51F" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Each agency in a State that administers a program pursuant to title III of the Social Security Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s501/etseq">42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.</ref>), title XIX of the Social Security Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s1396/etseq">42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.</ref>), or the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (<ref href="/us/pl/111/148">Public Law 111–148</ref>).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/C" id="H54FABA2D65E04102AD4015C62619D8C2" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>Each State agency primarily responsible for regulating the private possession of firearms.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/D" id="HCF41574F365A45D78A8B4B32128A0E37" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>Each State agency primarily responsible for maintaining identifying information for students enrolled at public secondary schools, including, where applicable, the State agency responsible for maintaining the education data system described in section 6201(e)(2) of the America COMPETES Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s9871/e/2">20 U.S.C. 9871(e)(2)</ref>).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/E" id="H6833C6DBAB554232AA8A61A5A48259DD" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>In the case of a State in which an individual disenfranchised by a criminal conviction may become eligible to vote upon completion of a criminal sentence or any part thereof, or upon formal restoration of rights, the State agency responsible for administering that sentence, or part thereof, or that restoration of rights.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/1/F" id="H84EA38FD0774470BBB2853685CED07D9" class="indent2"><num value="F">(F) </num><content>Any other agency of the State which is designated by the State as a contributing agency.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/2" id="H761AC9E8FB6C4F26A62245FBAC70432E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Federal agencies</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In each State, each of the following agencies of the Federal government shall be treated as a contributing agency with respect to individuals who are residents of that State (except as provided in subparagraph (C)):</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/2/A" id="HBC83FABA2D0F46E1BEB27342217562C1" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The Social Security Administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Defense Manpower Data Center of the Department of Defense, the Employee and Training Administration of the Department of Labor, and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/2/B" id="H020DE33596114CA291F1C628A443BCFC" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but only with respect to individuals who have completed the naturalization process.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/2/C" id="H20272ACAD8064B5E9C255E52B2E3D71F" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>In the case of an individual who is a resident of a State in which an individual disenfranchised by a criminal conviction under Federal law may become eligible to vote upon completion of a criminal sentence or any part thereof, or upon formal restoration of rights, the Federal agency responsible for administering that sentence or part thereof (without regard to whether the agency is located in the same State in which the individual is a resident), but only with respect to individuals who have completed the criminal sentence or any part thereof.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/2/D" id="H904BDF0EE19A4D028850AEE9F71DB765" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>Any other agency of the Federal government which the State designates as a contributing agency, but only if the State and the head of the agency determine that the agency collects information sufficient to carry out the responsibilities of a contributing agency under this section.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/3" id="HFF634AF1471645EE9B6529F53AA23DEE" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for institutions of higher education</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/3/A" id="HFC2996A392264D5DAAC07ADBAE3B6102" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this part, each institution of higher education described in subparagraph (B) shall be treated as a contributing agency in the State in which it is located, except that—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/3/A/i" id="H546FAC214ADC4E22BBCDFD57580EBFA3" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>the institution shall be treated as a contributing agency only if, in its normal course of operations, the institution requests each student registering for enrollment in a course of study, including enrollment in a program of distance education, as defined in section 103(7) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1003/7">20 U.S.C. 1003(7)</ref>), to affirm whether or not the student is a United States citizen; and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/3/A/ii" id="HB03C978B441C44E79BDF0883862CB685" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>if the institution is treated as a contributing agency in a State pursuant to clause (i), the institution shall serve as a contributing agency only with respect to students, including students enrolled in a program of distance education, as defined in section 103(7) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1003/7">20 U.S.C. 1003(7)</ref>), who reside in the State.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/3/B" id="H3C602C25FD3942ED9A49C0F042845405" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Institutions described</inline>.—</heading><content>An institution described in this subparagraph is an institution of higher education which has a program participation agreement in effect with the Secretary of Education under section 487 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1094">20 U.S.C. 1094</ref>) and which is located in a State to which section 4(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20503/b">52 U.S.C. 20503(b)</ref>) does not apply.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/4" id="H6E31E719E10A4A0EB01161B149DA146F" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Publication</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days prior to the date of each election for Federal office held in the State, the chief State election official shall publish on the public website of the official an updated list of all contributing agencies in that State.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1013/e/5" id="H74EBBB087D8F4E73ACC8E84CCEE24EC2" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public education</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief State election official of each State, in collaboration with each contributing agency, shall take appropriate measures to educate the public about voter registration under this section.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1014" id="H53F77FC33C104191A321CEB91AE92094"><num value="1014">SEC. 1014. </num><heading>ONE-TIME CONTRIBUTING AGENCY ASSISTANCE IN REGISTRATION OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS IN EXISTING RECORDS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1014/a" id="H5C062F5CF6DB4D6FB7D2A6C6D8B75DC4" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Initial Transmittal of Information</inline>.—</heading><content>For each individual already listed in a contributing agency’s records as of the date of enactment of this Act, and for whom the agency has the information listed in section 1013(b)(3), the agency shall promptly transmit that information to the appropriate State election official in accordance with section 1013(b)(3) not later than the effective date described in section 1011(a).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1014/b" id="H245564AB48AF4488AB9A057C605AB950" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transition</inline>.—</heading><content>For each individual listed in a contributing agency’s records as of the effective date described in section 1011(a) (but who was not listed in a contributing agency’s records as of the date of enactment of this Act), and for whom the agency has the information listed in section 1013(b)(3), the Agency shall promptly transmit that information to the appropriate State election official in accordance with section 1013(b)(3) not later than 6 months after the effective date described in section 1011(a).</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015" id="H6619A20126B84C94AE5707BBC6F6A2FF"><num value="1015">SEC. 1015. </num><heading>VOTER PROTECTION AND SECURITY IN AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/a" id="HE3958C6AC52D41F6BD8A1507542ED014" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Protections for Errors in Registration</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An individual shall not be prosecuted under any Federal or State law, adversely affected in any civil adjudication concerning immigration status or naturalization, or subject to an allegation in any legal proceeding that the individual is not a citizen of the United States on any of the following grounds:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/a/1" id="H3AB1D053654743699500ABF43F7E2B32" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The individual notified an election office of the individual’s automatic registration to vote under this part.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/a/2" id="H997D2014FA5A4BBCBF77373E9FA5B808" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The individual is not eligible to vote in elections for Federal office but was automatically registered to vote under this part.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/a/3" id="HF8AE10BF5A6F4A7BA9C4FA91CF6B130B" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The individual was automatically registered to vote under this part at an incorrect address.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/a/4" id="HDC9CBE7793924A63AFC446C1F0E5429F" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The individual declined the opportunity to register to vote or did not make an affirmation of citizenship, including through automatic registration, under this part.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/b" id="H9C6EB125418B47759F3A9310AA137A4B" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limits on Use of Automatic Registration</inline>.—</heading><content>The automatic registration of any individual or the fact that an individual declined the opportunity to register to vote or did not make an affirmation of citizenship (including through automatic registration) under this part may not be used as evidence against that individual in any State or Federal law enforcement proceeding, and an individual’s lack of knowledge or willfulness of such registration may be demonstrated by the individual’s testimony alone.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/c" id="H5FF4C4E65A5F4E42B3731797DB621266" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Protection of Election Integrity</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Nothing in subsections (a) or (b) may be construed to prohibit or restrict any action under color of law against an individual who—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/c/1" id="HC3315B5F41CB4C2FBE35F9ED01BE08B5" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>knowingly and willfully makes a false statement to effectuate or perpetuate automatic voter registration by any individual; or</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/c/2" id="H9A7871F1E8B84ABBBA1113FED4C9C501" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>casts a ballot knowingly and willfully in violation of State law or the laws of the United States.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/d" id="HEAF32A474B3748C2AC9F6DA695154899" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contributing Agencies’ Protection of Information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Nothing in this part authorizes a contributing agency to collect, retain, transmit, or publicly disclose any of the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/d/1" id="H96D5ADBC11F24494920B135DFB72FBEB" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>An individual’s decision to decline to register to vote or not to register to vote.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/d/2" id="H7FA8602B016F48E79CFB5EED641B3218" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>An individual’s decision not to affirm his or her citizenship.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/d/3" id="H64B172B10A3945B5B7946B4EAA447CD1" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Any information that a contributing agency transmits pursuant to section 1013(b)(3), except in pursuing the agency’s ordinary course of business.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e" id="H6F265B5FA80247489CFC20B6A873C370" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Election Officials’ Protection of Information</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1" id="HA330E9948D2F40AEACE3998BAAE8B8C3" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public disclosure prohibited</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A" id="H8964E6F5E3234D6D99AC4C0A39F17EBE" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subject to subparagraph (B), with respect to any individual for whom any State election official receives information from a contributing agency, the State election officials shall not publicly disclose any of the following:</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/i" id="HA0BD83BDD3334BA7B71433E2FB7A0DEF" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>The identity of the contributing agency.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/ii" id="H4555E033AEB64DA587BACF37363C3473" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>Any information not necessary to voter registration.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/iii" id="HFECB3731E6874FC9A4CB38EFED2C6F6D" class="indent3"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><content>Any voter information otherwise shielded from disclosure under State law or section 8(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/iv" id="H94C56E277FCE42E68D9C1A06C2308578" class="indent3"><num value="iv">(iv) </num><content>Any portion of the individual’s social security number.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/v" id="H0EBEE40ECB8E4FA0AFA86C50D1627B55" class="indent3"><num value="v">(v) </num><content>Any portion of the individual’s motor vehicle driver’s license number.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/vi" id="H71ED9F8BCE904576ACCDE9F1731C3CDE" class="indent3"><num value="vi">(vi) </num><content>The individual’s signature.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/vii" id="H26D84F68DE1B4C61A355A34BC334DF3F" class="indent3"><num value="vii">(vii) </num><content>The individual’s telephone number.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/A/viii" id="H1B954EB9775A4376B5ABE03639CD4079" class="indent3"><num value="viii">(viii) </num><content>The individual’s email address.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B" id="H5D5C2D7F9BF64F9680D357A9E09E55E2" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for individuals registered to vote</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>With respect to any individual for whom any State election official receives information from a contributing agency and who, on the basis of such information, is registered to vote in the State under this part, the State election officials shall not publicly disclose any of the following:</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/i" id="HEA32B9F8B2C1452991AFC7B813984EA4" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>The identity of the contributing agency.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/ii" id="H709157501FC74819B9ACC26FAB2B83C5" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>Any information not necessary to voter registration.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/iii" id="H7032E97A635B453290D30A5E4B31E9B0" class="indent3"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><content>Any voter information otherwise shielded from disclosure under State law or section 8(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/iv" id="HD1D06EB0F67147BC91DF0C8A3AA50426" class="indent3"><num value="iv">(iv) </num><content>Any portion of the individual’s social security number.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/v" id="H570EA51C56954BEEB8E15C066CBBC585" class="indent3"><num value="v">(v) </num><content>Any portion of the individual’s motor vehicle driver’s license number.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/1/B/vi" id="HC209B3792B6C4C98B5AE8BF7A45631D2" class="indent3"><num value="vi">(vi) </num><content>The individual’s signature.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/2" id="H273D62D010C64AA5987CC1E4117CB881" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voter record changes</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall maintain for at least 2 years and shall make available for public inspection (and, where available, photocopying at a reasonable cost), including in electronic form and through electronic methods, all records of changes to voter records, including removals, the reasons for removals, and updates.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/3" id="HCA62B4008BB2458D86061876696C0F18" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Database management standards</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall, after providing the public with notice and the opportunity to comment—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/3/A" id="H86A1FF6E60BB44A3BC94C3C3036F7E68" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>establish standards governing the comparison of data for voter registration list maintenance purposes, identifying as part of such standards the specific data elements, the matching rules used, and how a State may use the data to determine and deem that an individual is ineligible under State law to vote in an election, or to deem a record to be a duplicate or outdated;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/3/B" id="H86B2F1CACB7546AA9F8211BAAB6355DE" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>ensure that the standards developed pursuant to this paragraph are uniform and nondiscriminatory and are applied in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/3/C" id="H2585C010734F4968A0DA3E873173CD57" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>not later than 45 days after the deadline for public notice and comment, publish the standards developed pursuant to this paragraph on the Director’s website and make those standards available in written form upon request.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/4" id="HEC2CEC1A5A3C40BA95E1E4118D420AFD" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Security policy</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall, after providing the public with notice and the opportunity to comment, publish privacy and security standards for voter registration information not later than 45 days after the deadline for public notice and comment. The standards shall require the chief State election official of each State to adopt a policy that shall specify—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/4/A" id="HA4CD694101FE4FCE90FD57B56F29DFD3" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>each class of users who shall have authorized access to the computerized statewide voter registration list, specifying for each class the permission and levels of access to be granted, and setting forth other safeguards to protect the privacy, security, and accuracy of the information on the list; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/4/B" id="H4234957F06B54D49A3EC499D87FBE280" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>security safeguards to protect personal information transmitted through the information transmittal processes of section 1013 or section 1014, the online system used pursuant to section 1017, any telephone interface, the maintenance of the voter registration database, and any audit procedure to track access to the system.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/5" id="H740E71C0F2D44C9C86A83EB366E0E4C5" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">State compliance with national standards</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/5/A" id="H48C34A99E0B346DE86AF4E9860A0C1CD" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief executive officer of the State shall annually file with the Election Assistance Commission a statement certifying to the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology that the State is in compliance with the standards referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4). A State may meet the requirement of the previous sentence by filing with the Commission a statement which reads as follows: “_____ hereby certifies that it is in compliance with the standards referred to in paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 1015(e) of the Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2019.” (with the blank to be filled in with the name of the State involved).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/5/B" id="H0B19976A4F87411DB289E67C3B7D3A6A" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Publication of policies and procedures</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief State election official of a State shall publish on the official’s website the policies and procedures established under this section, and shall make those policies and procedures available in written form upon public request.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/5/C" id="HEAF4A2912AA743F5B95BD4BE1C289767" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Funding dependent on certification</inline>.—</heading><content>If a State does not timely file the certification required under this paragraph, it shall not receive any payment under this part for the upcoming fiscal year.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/e/5/D" id="H6F3B7818275747DA86A4FC6A4998D3DC" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Compliance of states that require changes to state law</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of a State that requires State legislation to carry out an activity covered by any certification submitted under this paragraph, for a period of not more than 2 years the State shall be permitted to make the certification notwithstanding that the legislation has not been enacted at the time the certification is submitted, and such State shall submit an additional certification once such legislation is enacted.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/f" id="HC314279400AB41868139F300622B42BF" class="indent0"><num value="f">(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restrictions on Use of Information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>No person acting under color of law may discriminate against any individual based on, or use for any purpose other than voter registration, election administration, or enforcement relating to election crimes, any of the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/f/1" id="H8FC5715811DC4394BC474DB5C97E3F0A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>Voter registration records.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/f/2" id="H91134B99C61F42FCA029DA04E8AD3638" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>An individual’s declination to register to vote or complete an affirmation of citizenship under section 1013(b).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/f/3" id="HE29BCF60EDA449F2B95C5FEDCAFCC470" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>An individual’s voter registration status.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1015/g" id="HA410956C48234BF9A05AEB9D70811C3B" class="indent0"><num value="g">(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition on the Use of Voter Registration Information for Commercial Purposes</inline>.—</heading><content>Information collected under this part shall not be used for commercial purposes. Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prohibit the transmission, exchange, or dissemination of information for political purposes, including the support of campaigns for election for Federal, State, or local public office or the activities of political committees (including committees of political parties) under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016" id="H82652E5B440246BA9FBB69EAD11B2729"><num value="1016">SEC. 1016. </num><heading>REGISTRATION PORTABILITY AND CORRECTION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016/a" id="H0D75605EF0C042E19D724DDE59B4B645" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Correcting Registration Information at Polling Place</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding section 302(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/a">52 U.S.C. 21082(a)</ref>), if an individual is registered to vote in elections for Federal office held in a State, the appropriate election official at the polling pace for any such election (including a location used as a polling place on a date other than the date of the election) shall permit the individual to—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016/a/1" id="H9543B6193E0345ABA5E24EE43F66B84C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>update the individual’s address for purposes of the records of the election official;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016/a/2" id="H4D8AB23F73B34B7992F1AD228A1A16FA" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>correct any incorrect information relating to the individual, including the individual’s name and political party affiliation, in the records of the election official; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016/a/3" id="HF651674058A347259100368EA280C844" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>cast a ballot in the election on the basis of the updated address or corrected information, and to have the ballot treated as a regular ballot and not as a provisional ballot under section 302(a) of such Act.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1016/b" id="H899B8B086F9A42E5A22C20DF872FDEC5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Updates to Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists</inline>.—</heading><content>If an election official at the polling place receives an updated address or corrected information from an individual under subsection (a), the official shall ensure that the address or information is promptly entered into the computerized Statewide voter registration list in accordance with section 303(a)(1)(A)(vi) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/a/1/A/vi">52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(1)(A)(vi)</ref>).</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017" id="HCA4878D8A1E94E0D976BEC46CC16E63C"><num value="1017">SEC. 1017. </num><heading>PAYMENTS AND GRANTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/a" id="H1AE34FF503FB456C900AF325120EB1B8" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>The Election Assistance Commission shall make grants to each eligible State to assist the State in implementing the requirements of this part (or, in the case of an exempt State, in implementing its existing automatic voter registration program).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/b" id="H80E74E73C41145318154AD30448393D4" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligibility; Application</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State is eligible to receive a grant under this section if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and in such form as the Commission may require, an application containing—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/b/1" id="HD383733B2217474D9BD8793A760F7781" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>a description of the activities the State will carry out with the grant;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/b/2" id="H2B8607CFEB8943CEBA2A5EC78F9C50A6" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>an assurance that the State shall carry out such activities without partisan bias and without promoting any particular point of view regarding any issue; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/b/3" id="H07A4A271C30744338870AE7118D8A28B" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/c" id="HD3F6D394AEDB425399CB8617647516CA" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of Grant; Priorities</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall determine the amount of a grant made to an eligible State under this section. In determining the amounts of the grants, the Commission shall give priority to providing funds for those activities which are most likely to accelerate compliance with the requirements of this part (or, in the case of an exempt State, which are most likely to enhance the ability of the State to automatically register individuals to vote through its existing automatic voter registration program), including—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/c/1" id="HC47987DD492241DA87C7E6E0593CA867" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>investments supporting electronic information transfer, including electronic collection and transfer of signatures, between contributing agencies and the appropriate State election officials;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/c/2" id="H8887CD00991442BEBCEA4F880CD9EBB0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>updates to online or electronic voter registration systems already operating as of the date of the enactment of this Act;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/c/3" id="HD1C29373407843BFA69066C1118BA28E" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>introduction of online voter registration systems in jurisdictions in which those systems did not previously exist; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/c/4" id="HB0312F31F88B438D84CC8FB9427EE123" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>public education on the availability of new methods of registering to vote, updating registration, and correcting registration.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/d" id="HC73920FB9B864DF2AF28028A579FC7EC" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/d/1" id="H1A1DACBB45A346E994E3E090D61667EE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/d/1/A" id="HEC285913326F4D1A86955971A0C61192" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>$500,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/d/1/B" id="HAA0C7E80B87E4624918DEA7C41A17329" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1017/d/2" id="H7CFEAF25909E4E6F8038B6C0021979A3" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Continuing availability of funds</inline>.—</heading><content>Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authority of this subsection shall remain available without fiscal year limitation until expended.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018" id="H535614BCBD3D4D019E020EE35F3481E6"><num value="1018">SEC. 1018. </num><heading>TREATMENT OF EXEMPT STATES.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/a" id="H38F9E5313DA546A38786A033086CC214" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Waiver of Requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subsection (b), this part does not apply with respect to an exempt State.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/b" id="HD07EA34E0E554EC3AD87615C95655F24" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The following provisions of this part apply with respect to an exempt State:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/b/1" id="HC2744D3445664CCDB6457B76B5DFA58A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>section 1016 (relating to registration portability and correction).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/b/2" id="HC17B12312793408A8ED7794C601E92D5" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>section 1017 (relating to payments and grants).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/b/3" id="H070FE7F2E04A4F59B2D2856231D45E59" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Section 1019(e) (relating to enforcement).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1018/b/4" id="H16035FDCC0324701BA857AFD392AFBE3" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>Section 1019(f) (relating to relation to other laws).</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019" id="H7454415C064A45BB9F28B83373282339"><num value="1019">SEC. 1019. </num><heading>MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/a" id="HE2B578795F6B4D5ABA8085567E1413CB" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Accessibility of Registration Services</inline>.—</heading><content>Each contributing agency shall ensure that the services it provides under this part are made available to individuals with disabilities to the same extent as services are made available to all other individuals.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/b" id="H128D51017E2B40C1A9915BF660C57081" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transmission Through Secure Third Party Permitted</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent a contributing agency from contracting with a third party to assist the agency in meeting the information transmittal requirements of this part, so long as the data transmittal complies with the applicable requirements of this part, including the privacy and security provisions of section 1015.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/c" id="H0534BF20CCC143B5964FD307155F91B3" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Nonpartisan, Nondiscriminatory Provision of Services</inline>.—</heading><content>The services made available by contributing agencies under this part and by the State under sections 1006 and 1007 shall be made in a manner consistent with paragraphs (4), (5), and (6)(C) of section 7(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20506/a">52 U.S.C. 20506(a)</ref>).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/d" id="H53A7EC5992C741789E7B730806391B2E" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notices</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State may send notices under this part via electronic mail if the individual has provided an electronic mail address and consented to electronic mail communications for election-related materials. All notices sent pursuant to this part that require a response must offer the individual notified the opportunity to respond at no cost to the individual.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/e" id="HDF7CDB865A784B7D9B24B50EA690E2B6" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Enforcement</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 11 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20510">52 U.S.C. 20510</ref>), relating to civil enforcement and the availability of private rights of action, shall apply with respect to this part in the same manner as such section applies to such Act.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/f" id="HFFC224C2A8C04CC3A099724A6C00E6EB" class="indent0"><num value="f">(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Relation to Other Laws</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided, nothing in this part may be construed to authorize or require conduct prohibited under, or to supersede, restrict, or limit the application of any of the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/f/1" id="HEEB9FB4F5CCF4CFCAFD592246F92A295" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s10301/etseq">52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/f/2" id="H129A21A90276449FBA9DC0E628AF9399" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20301/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/f/3" id="H9EFE4FDD9BFA40BBB1E8BA2503DCDB62" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20501/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20501 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1019/f/4" id="H3FE0C744C6754BCBBA24CEC856BAEA4D" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20901/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20901 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1020" id="H660B649EAF364A91A8F117DE864F809A"><num value="1020">SEC. 1020. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">In this part, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1020/1" id="HBF29469A5BDB4B458457B2A04D480146" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The term “<term>chief State election official</term>” means, with respect to a State, the individual designated by the State under section 10 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20509">52 U.S.C. 20509</ref>) to be responsible for coordination of the State’s responsibilities under such Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1020/2" id="HFDCE4D83F8C745B6BC86C4F307F1BE14" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The term “<term>Commission</term>” means the Election Assistance Commission.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1020/3" id="H18312122D9D0461D866750DDFE0D5157" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The term “<term>exempt State</term>” means a State which, under law which is in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, operates an automatic voter registration program under which an individual is automatically registered to vote in elections for Federal office in the State if the individual provides the motor vehicle authority of the State (or, in the case of a State in which an individual is automatically registered to vote at the time the individual applies for benefits or services with a Permanent Dividend Fund of the State, provides the appropriate official of such Fund) with such identifying information as the State may require.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1020/4" id="H56721C1246DC4176A167A04B65846C69" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The term “<term>State</term>” means each of the several States and the District of Columbia.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1021" id="HA4497FF547CF4506A7B73E12149D54B9"><num value="1021">SEC. 1021. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1021/a" id="HC364273A2A054B39A9735FC8DF1EA3EC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subsection (b), this part and the amendments made by this part shall apply with respect to a State beginning January 1, 2021.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt2/s1021/b" id="H94CBDF30C8364182B479FF1CD2FB85B6" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Waiver</inline>.—</heading><content>Subject to the approval of the Commission, if a State certifies to the Commission that the State will not meet the deadline referred to in subsection (a) because of extraordinary circumstances and includes in the certification the reasons for the failure to meet the deadline, subsection (a) shall apply to the State as if the reference in such subsection to “January 1, 2021” were a reference to “January 1, 2023”.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3" id="HBC413CF6518C43DAA8C0470161201FAB"><num value="3">PART 3—</num><heading>SAME DAY VOTER REGISTRATION</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031" id="H4B88028CDD0642A7AC235F174DAF64ED"><num value="1031">SEC. 1031. </num><heading>SAME DAY REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/a" id="HB1DE3C46731841E5A3746C85AF795E7B" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/a/1" id="HFE762C7EC3FC4250AD1DB570CFEB8F04" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> sections 304 and 305 as sections 305 and 306; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/a/2" id="H9A9BAAD060024CEEAEBA051A5182D6AD" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 303 the following new section:
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<section id="H53DB9F85781C41219EE3DCB013A58B86"><num value="304">“SEC. 304. </num><heading>SAME DAY REGISTRATION.</heading>
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<subsection id="H3598DA30234D4ACFA650872343A42E47" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H7983631AE46E4FDEA6567A828727F074" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Registration</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding section 8(a)(1)(D) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a/1/D">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)(D)</ref>), each State shall permit any eligible individual on the day of a Federal election and on any day when voting, including early voting, is permitted for a Federal election—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H4063BD69DA8543558AC5F7896BEFBBDE" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>to register to vote in such election at the polling place using a form that meets the requirements under section 9(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (or, if the individual is already registered to vote, to revise any of the individual’s voter registration information); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H4972A225834E4F1A9E6A7B7E1346E71A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>to cast a vote in such election.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3EE25C49742C42BCAE536B8CD1B5F6A1" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirements under paragraph (1) shall not apply to a State in which, under a State law in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this section, there is no voter registration requirement for individuals in the State with respect to elections for Federal office.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" id="HC29B0080738E4FE1B2F27AB6B9D0C88A" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligible Individual</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this section, the term ‘<term>eligible individual</term>’ means, with respect to any election for Federal office, an individual who is otherwise qualified to vote in that election.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H860E4D54168748CEA57F88E168383C3D" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall be required to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) for the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office occurring in November 2020 and for any subsequent election for Federal office.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/b" id="HC795453C96ED4295B5BF8AB0841E268F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Relating to Enforcement</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 401 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21111">52 U.S.C. 21111</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>sections 301, 302, and 303</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subtitle A of title III</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/c" id="H615E56CCBD5548648AEB218FAC167451" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/c/1" id="HD6CD2360960247268BE49780512CB1CE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the items relating to sections 304 and 305 as relating to sections 305 and 306; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt3/s1031/c/2" id="H7E14CF192F39436B888704D7C1EB46A0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 303 the following new item:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HCEF4F48C267A4EE09DA077A4B5B623A5" styleType="OLC">
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<toc changed="added" origin="#HHA00">
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<referenceItem idref="H53DB9F85781C41219EE3DCB013A58B86" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 304. </designator>
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<label>Same day registration.”</label>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4" id="H50B8A5E6796044DFBF686528CE586D8C"><num value="4">PART 4—</num><heading>CONDITIONS ON REMOVAL ON BASIS OF INTERSTATE CROSS-CHECKS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041" id="HBD4B3A57FD504F57B97D000819F069F0"><num value="1041">SEC. 1041. </num><heading>CONDITIONS ON REMOVAL OF REGISTRANTS FROM OFFICIAL LIST OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS ON BASIS OF INTERSTATE CROSS-CHECKS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/a" id="H6E3D6425851244A39C69BE9D97B26FE4" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Minimum Information Required for Removal Under Cross-check</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 8(c)(2) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/c/2">52 U.S.C. 20507(c)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/a/1" id="H94CC8C721F6044CE9304CBF896A5CDA2" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (D); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/a/2" id="H14747F04764D4400A56832F5B1BA3AA0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subparagraph (A) the following new subparagraphs:
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<subparagraph id="HB5B9220465554F97934A47046A39C0DC" class="indent0"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>To the extent that the program carried out by a State under subparagraph (A) to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters uses information obtained in an interstate cross-check, in addition to any other conditions imposed under this Act on the authority of the State to remove the name of the voter from such a list, the State may not remove the name of the voter from such a list unless—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H15774DE914CC4FB2AD102D1E3A98A262" class="indent1"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the State obtained the voter’s full name (including the voter’s middle name, if any) and date of birth, and the last 4 digits of the voter’s social security number, in the interstate cross-check; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HAC3C90B314164901B303F11FC04B9F67" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the State obtained documentation from the ERIC system that the voter is no longer a resident of the State.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1FF2B323347A4F6EB6E8BA9921CC608D" class="indent0"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>In this paragraph—</chapeau>
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<clause role="definitions" id="HAE4A499D21B949ADBFE6D7BDD1B37DAD" class="indent1"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the term ‘<term>interstate cross-check</term>’ means the transmission of information from an election official in one State to an election official of another State; and</content></clause>
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<clause role="definitions" id="H08AE3C45B26447B1AA1B8734924BBC41" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the term ‘<term>ERIC system</term>’ means the system operated by the Electronic Registration Information Center to share voter registration information and voter identification information among participating States.”</content></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/b" id="H5664EBA58E0B4919922D44F75D929DEA" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Completion of Cross-checks Not Later Than 6 Months Prior to Election</inline>.—</heading><content>Subparagraph (A) of section 8(c)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/c/2">52 U.S.C. 20507(c)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>not later than 90 days</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>not later than 90 days (or, in the case of a program in which the State uses interstate cross-checks, not later than 6 months)</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/c" id="H7A2E89967CB240519878811C809F95BA" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Subparagraph (D) of section 8(c)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/c/2">52 U.S.C. 20507(c)(2)</ref>), as redesignated by subsection (a)(1), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Subparagraph (A)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>This paragraph</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt4/s1041/d" id="HAB7B08A3AD0F4D6AAA5FFBF767F0F292" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to elections held on or after the expiration of the 6-month period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5" id="H608A943B40A7495B83A4ED81DB28199B"><num value="5">PART 5—</num><heading>OTHER INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE VOTER REGISTRATION</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051" id="H555811141D57472B936B8B683BBA788E"><num value="1051">SEC. 1051. </num><heading>ANNUAL REPORTS ON VOTER REGISTRATION STATISTICS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a" id="H99DB8D848F8B4FE4AE0DC7F0BDC6BD02" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Annual Report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days after the end of each year, each State shall submit to the Election Assistance Commission and Congress a report containing the following categories of information for the year:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/1" id="H3190DBCD3716483B9C782BD2D689073B" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The number of individuals who were registered under part 2.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/2" id="H388DE1893107407B8DC2B7188D499F2E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The number of voter registration application forms completed by individuals that were transmitted by motor vehicle authorities in the State (pursuant to section 5(d) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993) and voter registration agencies in the State (as designated under section 7 of such Act) to the chief State election official of the State, broken down by each such authority and agency.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/3" id="H90C6E6E503DE4B3FA2BCB1ACB1C09047" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The number of such individuals whose voter registration application forms were accepted and who were registered to vote in the State and the number of such individuals whose forms were rejected and who were not registered to vote in the State, broken down by each such authority and agency.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/4" id="H58FFA9246A6642CA8E01CC7521D807AD" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The number of change of address forms and other forms of information indicating that an individual’s identifying information has been changed that were transmitted by such motor vehicle authorities and voter registration agencies to the chief State election official of the State, broken down by each such authority and agency and the type of form transmitted.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/5" id="HDC2FAEAAF14E4328BBC43D662A8B82CC" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>The number of individuals on the Statewide computerized voter registration list (as established and maintained under section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002) whose voter registration information was revised by the chief State election official as a result of the forms transmitted to the official by such motor vehicle authorities and voter registration agencies (as described in paragraph (3)), broken down by each such authority and agency and the type of form transmitted.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/a/6" id="H6D143F988B4049508F63C8B3233ABD40" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>The number of individuals who requested the chief State election official to revise voter registration information on such list, and the number of individuals whose information was revised as a result of such a request.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/b" id="HA274B57CC9CE4A529D7D2E4F24BCFAA8" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Breakdown of Information by Race and Ethnicity of Individuals</inline>.—</heading><content>In preparing the report under this section, the State shall, for each category of information described in subsection (a), include a breakdown by race and ethnicity of the individuals whose information is included in the category, to the extent that information on the race and ethnicity of such individuals is available to the State.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/c" id="HD6DFBAB430024C7F81C06B1DDA03A892" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confidentiality of Information</inline>.—</heading><content>In preparing and submitting a report under this section, the chief State election official shall ensure that no information regarding the identification of any individual is revealed.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt5/s1051/d" id="H929DB55DD2D74511AB6A00F88DB8A2CC" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">State Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, a “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but does not include any State in which, under a State law in effect continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this Act, there is no voter registration requirement for individuals in the State with respect to elections for Federal office.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6" id="H880FEC5DF1E64329A4D64116EC1DF22E"><num value="6">PART 6—</num><heading>AVAILABILITY OF HAVA REQUIREMENTS PAYMENTS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061" id="H606188D97ACD4660B677AD831CD9AE2B"><num value="1061">SEC. 1061. </num><heading>AVAILABILITY OF REQUIREMENTS PAYMENTS UNDER HAVA TO COVER COSTS OF COMPLIANCE WITH NEW REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061/a" id="H42E0534B0FE34391A913CB8EBF13E79C" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 251(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21001/b">52 U.S.C. 21001(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061/a/1" id="HCA60F05592234E88ACED8C666B40D18D" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(2) and (3)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(2), (3), and (4)</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061/a/2" id="HCD174E25A3E9445E9E057F4468FCA6B8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HB486A538B58B41AA8680DD3C4A586D2E" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certain voter registration activities</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may use a requirements payment to carry out any of the requirements of the Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2019, including the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 which are imposed pursuant to the amendments made to such Act by the Voter Registration Modernization Act of 2019.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061/b" id="H4C6906A49D3C419E9345B91C51EA122B" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 254(a)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21004/a/1">52 U.S.C. 21004(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 251(a)(2)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 251(b)(2)</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt6/s1061/c" id="H39DF9B85BFDA4B16A5FA2BC24E11EE61" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal year.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7" id="H98B665DD4D6E48C1AF369F171A77C1A5"><num value="7">PART 7—</num><heading>PROHIBITING INTERFERENCE WITH VOTER REGISTRATION </heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1071" id="H0D7737F713EE46BE9E5B24E1AAFA3E05"><num value="1071">SEC. 1071. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072" id="HE8FE9FDC9E8E40AA91BE4867DCF5D06C"><num value="1072">SEC. 1072. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF BEST PRACTICES.</heading>
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<subsection role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072/a" id="H5DB26B34178345DBAC5F0604EF91AFF5" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Best Practices</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Election Assistance Commission shall develop and publish recommendations for best practices for States to use to deter and prevent violations of <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s612">section 612 of title 18, United States Code</ref> (as added by section 1071), and section 12 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20511">52 U.S.C. 20511</ref>) (relating to the unlawful interference with registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register to vote or vote), including practices to provide for the posting of relevant information at polling places and voter registration agencies under such Act, the training of poll workers and election officials, and relevant educational materials. For purposes of this subsection, the term “<term>State</term>” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072/b" id="H848F163D39164008A934599A50471538" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inclusion in Voter Information Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 302(b)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/b/2">52 U.S.C. 21082(b)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072/b/1" id="H2237A19CAEA1451F8A94BE3C24E21BB2" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (E);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072/b/2" id="HF0F0E7C6457A4522A340299914A4EE79" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (F) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stA/pt7/s1072/b/3" id="H68AC58852C0341A09964BA2A70A8BBB2" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="H2D3F843864A449BF84A92E884C4CF482" class="indent2"><num value="G">“(G) </num><content>information relating to the prohibitions of <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s612">section 612 of title 18, United States Code</ref>, and section 12 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20511">52 U.S.C. 20511</ref>) (relating to the unlawful interference with registering to vote, or voting, or attempting to register to vote or vote), including information on how individuals may report allegations of violations of such prohibitions.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB" id="HE6A0788151AD4089A8FAC09ABB8FB154"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Access to Voting for Individuals With Disabilities</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101" id="HCE2747AFBAB54D1DBD1E8DED3BC09CC8"><num value="1101">SEC. 1101. </num><heading>REQUIREMENTS FOR STATES TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO VOTER REGISTRATION AND VOTING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/a" id="H9F8D8CECEC224397837A489AD1977384" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subtitle A of title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 1031(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/a/1" id="HB62493FC757142CD9372F51203047778" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> sections 305 and 306 as sections 306 and 307; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/a/2" id="H7B54BB4D25674233A478407C0280B761" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 304 the following new section:
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<section id="H6D6C04C479E74BD687CFD3AF62A7A01D"><num value="305">“SEC. 305. </num><heading>ACCESS TO VOTER REGISTRATION AND VOTING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.</heading>
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<subsection id="HCC90428BDA11435588716834E393F45F" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of Applications and Ballots</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each State shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HBBB733D334984F368926F05E2A4706EF" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>permit individuals with disabilities to use absentee registration procedures and to vote by absentee ballot in elections for Federal office;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6BE62BAC577147938B7F31AE71D0D988" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>accept and process, with respect to any election for Federal office, any otherwise valid voter registration application and absentee ballot application from an individual with a disability if the application is received by the appropriate State election official within the deadline for the election which is applicable under Federal law;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HEC334FBBBE444B848DB21E2181ED2ABA" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><chapeau>in addition to any other method of registering to vote or applying for an absentee ballot in the State, establish procedures—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H59CDF5C25E3D4E4DA7E8D8887005E88C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>for individuals with disabilities to request by mail and electronically voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications with respect to elections for Federal office in accordance with subsection (c);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HE232984C1C6B4173A9AACA8939613777" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>for States to send by mail and electronically (in accordance with the preferred method of transmission designated by the individual under subparagraph (C)) voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications requested under subparagraph (A) in accordance with subsection (c); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H412CCD47A6BB4FCFBBB766CDC41B0AEF" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>by which such an individual can designate whether the individual prefers that such voter registration application or absentee ballot application be transmitted by mail or electronically;</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6734FE0A05404B368C34CA447AF9D314" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>in addition to any other method of transmitting blank absentee ballots in the State, establish procedures for transmitting by mail and electronically blank absentee ballots to individuals with disabilities with respect to elections for Federal office in accordance with subsection (d);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H917ED2749B0C40A9B931982B05DE05A8" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><chapeau>transmit a validly requested absentee ballot to an individual with a disability—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H7D5A6D6EBFAE4CB995DBC724484BD20A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>except as provided in subsection (e), in the case in which the request is received at least 45 days before an election for Federal office, not later than 45 days before the election; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0297AA4A8F92458B9E9371E43090CBB9" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>in the case in which the request is received less than 45 days before an election for Federal office—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H3EEA440DE13946EDA150AA935D939808" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>in accordance with State law; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HCD52A3BE0612454FAC3FE4A277361373" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>if practicable and as determined appropriate by the State, in a manner that expedites the transmission of such absentee ballot; and</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4A5788F8A6CD4825B8430F5624524DCE" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>if the State declares or otherwise holds a runoff election for Federal office, establish a written plan that provides absentee ballots are made available to individuals with disabilities in a manner that gives them sufficient time to vote in the runoff election.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF81C4901F1174C1FB46AE57B59A15C71" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Designation of Single State Office To Provide Information on Registration and Absentee Ballot Procedures for All Disabled Voters in State</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall designate a single office which shall be responsible for providing information regarding voter registration procedures and absentee ballot procedures to be used by individuals with disabilities with respect to elections for Federal office to all individuals with disabilities who wish to register to vote or vote in any jurisdiction in the State.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HA6F0140FFBB64D7CA3411C236C7F2793" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Designation of Means of Electronic Communication for Individuals With Disabilities To Request and for States To Send Voter Registration Applications and Absentee Ballot Applications, and for Other Purposes Related to Voting Information</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H4328569F26E2457296E04762D60F2921" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each State shall, in addition to the designation of a single State office under subsection (b), designate not less than 1 means of electronic communication—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H8A8349272F2C4A6FBB130C1B58D36081" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>for use by individuals with disabilities who wish to register to vote or vote in any jurisdiction in the State to request voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications under subsection (a)(3);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H65E34761D6F7484FAEBFB61469467056" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>for use by States to send voter registration applications and absentee ballot applications requested under such subsection; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6703B2F35DE8400C8501605B0EFAAA9E" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>for the purpose of providing related voting, balloting, and election information to individuals with disabilities.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF844128BCF7D436494518D6D7E237229" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clarification regarding provision of multiple means of electronic communication</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may, in addition to the means of electronic communication so designated, provide multiple means of electronic communication to individuals with disabilities, including a means of electronic communication for the appropriate jurisdiction of the State.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H023B00685D1545A092AC88B36821ADF5" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inclusion of designated means of electronic communication with informational and instructional materials that accompany balloting materials</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall include a means of electronic communication so designated with all informational and instructional materials that accompany balloting materials sent by the State to individuals with disabilities.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE72CCB9F280347E488F78AA468422156" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transmission if no preference indicated</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case where an individual with a disability does not designate a preference under subsection (a)(3)(C), the State shall transmit the voter registration application or absentee ballot application by any delivery method allowable in accordance with applicable State law, or if there is no applicable State law, by mail.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HEFA4020421004874AF6D9EB978AA51AD" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transmission of Blank Absentee Ballots by Mail and Electronically</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H4EB1581C34D74EC592D9A2690B8E456B" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each State shall establish procedures—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H63363F15B0C8454FA695681D0B7F2F8A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>to securely transmit blank absentee ballots by mail and electronically (in accordance with the preferred method of transmission designated by the individual with a disability under subparagraph (B)) to individuals with disabilities for an election for Federal office; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD7A1351483C4430187CE25D60F7FB0A5" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>by which the individual with a disability can designate whether the individual prefers that such blank absentee ballot be transmitted by mail or electronically.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2BCC61E35A734481A297D116A597C19C" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transmission if no preference indicated</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case where an individual with a disability does not designate a preference under paragraph (1)(B), the State shall transmit the ballot by any delivery method allowable in accordance with applicable State law, or if there is no applicable State law, by mail.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H724CC903444140CEB9D701D628EF16F9" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application of methods to track delivery to and return of ballot by individual requesting ballot</inline>.—</heading><content>Under the procedures established under paragraph (1), the State shall apply such methods as the State considers appropriate, such as assigning a unique identifier to the ballot, to ensure that if an individual with a disability requests the State to transmit a blank absentee ballot to the individual in accordance with this subsection, the voted absentee ballot which is returned by the individual is the same blank absentee ballot which the State transmitted to the individual.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD7954B7F0A8347BB9D0EE1D3DACA0340" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Hardship Exemption</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HE6982E198BE443AF935EB1D0D3CD7400" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If the chief State election official determines that the State is unable to meet the requirement under subsection (a)(5)(A) with respect to an election for Federal office due to an undue hardship described in paragraph (2)(B), the chief State election official shall request that the Attorney General grant a waiver to the State of the application of such subsection. Such request shall include—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HDC6601A20B34479EA2EDB263F6A26B60" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a recognition that the purpose of such subsection is to individuals with disabilities enough time to vote in an election for Federal office;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3ABB890621F94076BEDFA952CCB6DE38" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>an explanation of the hardship that indicates why the State is unable to transmit such individuals an absentee ballot in accordance with such subsection;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB15070D6D6224F77A2F69D1B18F1BEBF" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>the number of days prior to the election for Federal office that the State requires absentee ballots be transmitted to such individuals; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB12DF61284004D71B8F6524C2BB2F470" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><chapeau>a comprehensive plan to ensure that such individuals are able to receive absentee ballots which they have requested and submit marked absentee ballots to the appropriate State election official in time to have that ballot counted in the election for Federal office, which includes—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HC48896E5820D43C09A3C0963A7A33285" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the steps the State will undertake to ensure that such individuals have time to receive, mark, and submit their ballots in time to have those ballots counted in the election;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H397BE0639BB0408890ACD207C6F51030" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>why the plan provides such individuals sufficient time to vote as a substitute for the requirements under such subsection; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB400AA03AB09497BB016A4AE60FDED9D" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the underlying factual information which explains how the plan provides such sufficient time to vote as a substitute for such requirements.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB65F05B1B765453E93E93C42C1F31505" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Approval of waiver request</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Attorney General shall approve a waiver request under paragraph (1) if the Attorney General determines each of the following requirements are met:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HE052D0EF790D43EE877CB3210307ACF2" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The comprehensive plan under subparagraph (D) of such paragraph provides individuals with disabilities sufficient time to receive absentee ballots they have requested and submit marked absentee ballots to the appropriate State election official in time to have that ballot counted in the election for Federal office.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDEB742B36D6147B799E6011985DEDEDB" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>One or more of the following issues creates an undue hardship for the State:</chapeau>
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<clause id="H5227657C1CD443308F343EA36FDE3669" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>The State’s primary election date prohibits the State from complying with subsection (a)(5)(A).</content></clause>
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<clause id="H9F742A05782A497BA2025714021D1614" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>The State has suffered a delay in generating ballots due to a legal contest.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H5DA9E2BF06CA49BE9EC008A3C898B22A" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>The State Constitution prohibits the State from complying with such subsection.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H09387DD8A73F427981DCED5820DAD8FD" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Timing of waiver</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H71A63CFA1D394251B98642BF2175AA4A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided under subparagraph (B), a State that requests a waiver under paragraph (1) shall submit to the Attorney General the written waiver request not later than 90 days before the election for Federal office with respect to which the request is submitted. The Attorney General shall approve or deny the waiver request not later than 65 days before such election.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3CFB5DB028654E839D5578DFE08343B3" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception</inline>.—</heading><content>If a State requests a waiver under paragraph (1) as the result of an undue hardship described in paragraph (2)(B)(ii), the State shall submit to the Attorney General the written waiver request as soon as practicable. The Attorney General shall approve or deny the waiver request not later than 5 business days after the date on which the request is received.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4F096EFFEA014654808D78FB3CB50CD7" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application of waiver</inline>.—</heading><content>A waiver approved under paragraph (2) shall only apply with respect to the election for Federal office for which the request was submitted. For each subsequent election for Federal office, the Attorney General shall only approve a waiver if the State has submitted a request under paragraph (1) with respect to such election.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H1F2D414D852E437C964FD99B9B8D5D02" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rule of Construction</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section may be construed to allow the marking or casting of ballots over the internet.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HBB79E82A5034484192B8A876A9B2461B" class="indent0"><num value="g">“(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Individual With a Disability Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, an ‘individual with a disability’ means an individual with an impairment that substantially limits any major life activities and who is otherwise qualified to vote in elections for Federal office.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H3EF25E2DA5294D0DAE7F11CF1107D8C0" class="indent0"><num value="h">“(h) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall apply with respect to elections for Federal office held on or after January 1, 2020.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/b" id="H1AFF786D67E0480AA3D521E799ADE5D7" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Relating to Issuance of Voluntary Guidance by Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 311(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21101/b">52 U.S.C. 21101(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/b/1" id="HF68ADF9E0CD341D0BCF002532E77C650" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (2);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/b/2" id="H3AC17A2519C449B08FB9F04888F6BCC4" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (3) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/b/3" id="H04681EFAA41B4A2787B084736D28DF36" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H468F4400491C4EBE98C4A253F6DBB41C" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>in the case of the recommendations with respect to section 305, January 1, 2020.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/c" id="H0FA06E3B325A419EAA04C626E5BD3EDD" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1031(c), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/c/1" id="H4A4339274A6C43ADB3F29C11DEAA21FE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the items relating to sections 305 and 306 as relating to sections 306 and 307; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1101/c/2" id="HFBE4E6FBD22148C2BB75CB39862FCB07" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 304 the following new item:
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<designator>“Sec. 305. </designator>
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<label>Access to voter registration and voting for individuals with disabilities.”</label>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102" id="HE2882075CAB640D1B939B7C6A1E4FC70"><num value="1102">SEC. 1102. </num><heading>EXPANSION AND REAUTHORIZATION OF GRANT PROGRAM TO ASSURE VOTING ACCESS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102/a" id="H48CD19EDAF7A4AEEB9816DB978ECD4FC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Purposes of Payments</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 261(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21021/b">52 U.S.C. 21021(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraphs (1) and (2) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:
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<paragraph id="H0924BC9113284B598C51C3F20B2E0503" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>making absentee voting and voting at home accessible to individuals with the full range of disabilities (including impairments involving vision, hearing, mobility, or dexterity) through the implementation of accessible absentee voting systems that work in conjunction with assistive technologies for which individuals have access at their homes, independent living centers, or other facilities;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HDA010C14DD1A4594BA131F1CA9E5AD42" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>making polling places, including the path of travel, entrances, exits, and voting areas of each polling facility, accessible to individuals with disabilities, including the blind and visually impaired, in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation (including privacy and independence) as for other voters; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4B0C80A7EE0341D09CB9A49C254B46C9" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>providing solutions to problems of access to voting and elections for individuals with disabilities that are universally designed and provide the same opportunities for individuals with and without disabilities.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102/b" id="H3BF567B624F54FFD8ACAE0C4C1D61FED" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reauthorization</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 264(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21024/a">52 U.S.C. 21024(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H28040F31754942F584FFB36AD8B8AFC9" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>For fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary to carry out this part.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102/c" id="H062B17BA91FF4CF2863D4223BE9A99D3" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Period of Availability of Funds</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 264 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21024">52 U.S.C. 21024</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102/c/1" id="H38039357322048519DEA0524CBAD8674" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in subsection (b), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Any amounts</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Except as provided in subsection (b), any amounts</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stB/s1102/c/2" id="HAF2E93EF24F34EE1A46F412703F87212" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H3E4CC33DB0F44EC296B4840BA7D842CA" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Return and Transfer of Certain Funds</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H908AE60D06B0408AB9ADF4BDD7B2FC45" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for obligation and expenditure</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) for a payment to a State or unit of local government for fiscal year 2020 or any succeeding fiscal year, any portion of such amounts which have not been obligated or expended by the State or unit of local government prior to the expiration of the 4-year period which begins on the date the State or unit of local government first received the amounts shall be transferred to the Commission.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9775B98CE21840B6ADDECA9C85AA394C" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reallocation of transferred amounts</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H59C9E597929B49909B3EE959A1265ED0" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall use the amounts transferred under paragraph (1) to make payments on a pro rata basis to each covered payment recipient described in subparagraph (B), which may obligate and expend such payment for the purposes described in section 261(b) during the 1-year period which begins on the date of receipt.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H55E63ADC71B34AE1959A3EA49CBEE637" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Covered payment recipients described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In subparagraph (A), a ‘covered payment recipient’ is a State or unit of local government with respect to which—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H22649ACC8B064B84A91FD4B6636107DB" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>amounts were appropriated pursuant to the authority of subsection (a); and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HD2A11FCE7AFB440DBFBB36FF14655B2C" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>no amounts were transferred to the Commission under paragraph (1).”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC" id="HC273BEAFCDCC4DD0AC2A7E1746BF0633"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Prohibiting Voter Caging</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1201" id="H71F0954BE5414967B62B73FDFB1E73F4"><num value="1201">SEC. 1201. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202" id="H384DB5818C574D22A78B389096EC3202"><num value="1202">SEC. 1202. </num><heading>DEVELOPMENT AND ADOPTION OF BEST PRACTICES FOR PREVENTING VOTER CAGING.</heading>
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<subsection role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202/a" id="HD5546E0E272A42B7BBAE3F60EC7D03EA" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Best Practices</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Election Assistance Commission shall develop and publish for the use of States recommendations for best practices to deter and prevent violations of <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s613">section 613 of title 18, United States Code</ref>, as added by section 1201(a), including practices to provide for the posting of relevant information at polling places and voter registration agencies, the training of poll workers and election officials, and relevant educational measures. For purposes of this subsection, the term “<term>State</term>” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202/b" id="H610F23C3FFF7408AA66CCA04E8FD63F1" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inclusion in Voting Information Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 302(b)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/b/2">52 U.S.C. 21082(b)(2)</ref>), as amended by section 1072(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202/b/1" id="HD236C22CC9F042A9B891A27EC192827E" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (F);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202/b/2" id="HD32E3D5056604B0BBD2EBDCD56F01362" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (G) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stC/s1202/b/3" id="H54F8E909A61348C289E1D6A2994C140B" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="H8504BE1B4E7048E395CF337BD8D194C8" class="indent2"><num value="H">“(H) </num><content>information relating to the prohibition against voter caging and other questionable challenges (as set forth in <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s613">section 613 of title 18, United States Code</ref>), including information on how individuals may report allegations of violations of such prohibition.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stD" id="H8C5E400B1ECC4D95AF485490C28CACAF"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stE" id="HCCDD95B1D6434EA4B32F6A71DD9B8B43"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF" id="H378565CB5BC1429FBF16FB0F309E2020"><num value="F">Subtitle F—</num><heading>Promoting Accuracy, Integrity, and Security Through Voter-Verified Permanent Paper Ballot</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1501" id="HC8542B11B82F402489AE3FD4BC4E2D6C"><num value="1501">SEC. 1501. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502" id="HA7654DB6A0B34CAA9F83DAB379D417B3"><num value="1502">SEC. 1502. </num><heading>PAPER BALLOT AND MANUAL COUNTING REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/a" id="H9789A73A8E9D473B96C3C0E6BD9430B9" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 301(a)(2) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/a/2">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H2AD8E19ACA0D47A3B6618B1674545678" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Paper ballot requirement</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H7F51773972B340A3A66BA519BCC03C39" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voter-verified paper ballots</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H54AF6BA6C90B4EADBC3FF690881AA888" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Paper ballot requirement</inline>.—</heading><subclause role="definitions" id="H89B3E6FAA8B14430AE5489B13D63657F" class="inline"><num value="I">(I) </num><content>The voting system shall require the use of an individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot of the voter’s vote that shall be marked and made available for inspection and verification by the voter before the voter’s vote is cast and counted, and which shall be counted by hand or read by an optical character recognition device or other counting device. For purposes of this subclause, the term ‘<term>individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot</term>’ means a paper ballot marked by the voter by hand or a paper ballot marked through the use of a nontabulating ballot marking device or system, so long as the voter shall have the option to mark his or her ballot by hand.</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H249E4CE0190C49229E43F467FA3E9100" class="indent3"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>The voting system shall provide the voter with an opportunity to correct any error on the paper ballot before the permanent voter-verified paper ballot is preserved in accordance with clause (ii).</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H56D4B7F83058422796720377029E571D" class="indent3"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>The voting system shall not preserve the voter-verified paper ballots in any manner that makes it possible, at any time after the ballot has been cast, to associate a voter with the record of the voter’s vote without the voter’s consent.</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause id="H5BD46C1985A8447DA6B05FFFAAF8DA4E" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Preservation as official record</inline>.—</heading><content>The individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballot used in accordance with clause (i) shall constitute the official ballot and shall be preserved and used as the official ballot for purposes of any recount or audit conducted with respect to any election for Federal office in which the voting system is used.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HCD61C14BC45B4CFBAC9A83715178DC71" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Manual counting requirements for recounts and audits</inline>.—</heading><subclause id="H2B49F61858944E339852A1E7A6884A41" class="inline"><num value="I">(I) </num><content>Each paper ballot used pursuant to clause (i) shall be suitable for a manual audit, and shall be counted by hand in any recount or audit conducted with respect to any election for Federal office.</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H4480F55E0839451E847BEC96CFBB77D6" class="indent3"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>In the event of any inconsistencies or irregularities between any electronic vote tallies and the vote tallies determined by counting by hand the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots used pursuant to clause (i), and subject to subparagraph (B), the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots shall be the true and correct record of the votes cast.</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause id="H9930D91E7D0F43799C2AEFDAD743E888" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application to all ballots</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirements of this subparagraph shall apply to all ballots cast in elections for Federal office, including ballots cast by absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and other absentee voters.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H383F5FA88B5441C78F52A1361F7F9434" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for treatment of disputes when paper ballots have been shown to be compromised</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="HCCAC2D431E6C436A8C7F8972C5B98B2E" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the event that—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HB9D5B50A421345D8A6CB0FA0D7033BA9" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>there is any inconsistency between any electronic vote tallies and the vote tallies determined by counting by hand the individual, durable, voter-verified paper ballots used pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i) with respect to any election for Federal office; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H7A3A31E968794F64AC746967CC36C5BA" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>it is demonstrated by clear and convincing evidence (as determined in accordance with the applicable standards in the jurisdiction involved) in any recount, audit, or contest of the result of the election that the paper ballots have been compromised (by damage or mischief or otherwise) and that a sufficient number of the ballots have been so compromised that the result of the election could be changed,</content></subclause>
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<continuation class="indent0" role="clause">the determination of the appropriate remedy with respect to the election shall be made in accordance with applicable State law, except that the electronic tally shall not be used as the exclusive basis for determining the official certified result.</continuation></clause>
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<clause id="H73A7489F111A4166A4AC11CCBA0BCBAF" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rule for consideration of ballots associated with each voting machine</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of clause (i), only the paper ballots deemed compromised, if any, shall be considered in the calculation of whether or not the result of the election could be changed due to the compromised paper ballots.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/b" id="HAE8AA70397614ADDB715848648743525" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Clarifying Applicability of Alternative Language Accessibility</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 301(a)(4) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/a/4">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(4)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(including the paper ballots required to be used under paragraph (2))</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>voting system</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/c" id="H40EB2FB750DB452487615881211A6D9B" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 301(a)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/a/1">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/c/1" id="H394FD193B0864FADA3B950C8C4A3FD7C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in subparagraph (A)(i), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/c/2" id="HEE5B526B50A244E8ACDCA4C6FC1CE663" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>in subparagraph (A)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/c/3" id="H318D422EEC5045A88C3D8FFA53038053" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>in subparagraph (A)(iii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted</quotedText>” each place it appears and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1502/c/4" id="HB90AA80767A04D2CA9D46CD9D25E68E1" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>in subparagraph (B)(ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>counted, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503" id="H62A7A050E2EB43F5B76892BD564BA687"><num value="1503">SEC. 1503. </num><heading>ACCESSIBILITY AND BALLOT VERIFICATION FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/a" id="H992B4558C48E4E8AADACF4286BA295E9" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 301(a)(3)(B) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/a/3/B">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)(3)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subparagraph id="H2F2EEA981B46444E9E75928852CDBC89" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B)</num><clause id="H1F7A6C971B7A4159A8008D4B8EC8B2F3" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>ensure that individuals with disabilities and others are given an equivalent opportunity to vote, including with privacy and independence, in a manner that produces a voter-verified paper ballot as for other voters;</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H6AC66A3AEF5A4304AEFE9F5CA501FFF3" class="indent2"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>satisfy the requirement of subparagraph (A) through the use of at least one voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual and enhanced visual accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, and nonmanual and enhanced manual accessibility for the mobility and dexterity impaired, at each polling place; and</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H7A4AF93675D24354A5D378F2610D689A" class="indent2"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><chapeau>meet the requirements of subparagraph (A) and paragraph (2)(A) by using a system that—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HE16B7E606C1344A7806D1903D04A2682" class="indent3"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>allows the voter to privately and independently verify the permanent paper ballot through the presentation, in accessible form, of the printed or marked vote selections from the same printed or marked information that would be used for any vote counting or auditing; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H34F4C2770B5F417D8C082A8CC4B877D8" class="indent3"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>allows the voter to privately and independently verify and cast the permanent paper ballot without requiring the voter to manually handle the paper ballot.”</content></subclause></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b" id="HC047F5A7DA7E43DC9C6FE931CDF72479" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Specific Requirement of Study, Testing, and Development of Accessible Paper Ballot Verification Mechanisms</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/1" id="HD7F2BDEDD35F40539F77E6B1DA24860E" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Study and reporting</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subtitle C of title II of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/1/A" id="H329910D6EE394D719782F58C0F4ACCEC" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> section 247 as section 248; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/1/B" id="HEDF89D25CDAC4B028F6502DF47932377" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 246 the following new section:
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<section id="H25DAFD19DA8448F7AE091A23224483E5"><num value="247">“SEC. 247. </num><heading>STUDY AND REPORT ON ACCESSIBLE PAPER BALLOT VERIFICATION MECHANISMS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H24EC4D2A392447B8BBF59B512D1CE977" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Study and Report</inline>.—</heading><content>The Director of the National Science Foundation shall make grants to not fewer than 3 eligible entities to study, test, and develop accessible paper ballot voting, verification, and casting mechanisms and devices and best practices to enhance the accessibility of paper ballot voting and verification mechanisms for individuals with disabilities, for voters whose primary language is not English, and for voters with difficulties in literacy, including best practices for the mechanisms themselves and the processes through which the mechanisms are used.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H2CBF9AD80DE34E97B9BA17250465AE53" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligibility</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An entity is eligible to receive a grant under this part if it submits to the Director (at such time and in such form as the Director may require) an application containing—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H0832FEE99C6B483DA184F19F356C7308" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>certifications that the entity shall specifically investigate enhanced methods or devices, including non-electronic devices, that will assist such individuals and voters in marking voter-verified paper ballots and presenting or transmitting the information printed or marked on such ballots back to such individuals and voters, and casting such ballots;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H69AD766190B84AFAA62757CB6EB0B0BC" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>a certification that the entity shall complete the activities carried out with the grant not later than December 31, 2020; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H08F53484B23245FFABF75ECAA19473FB" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>such other information and certifications as the Director may require.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE8EB3C81511746C0AEB220D3B55562DC" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Technology</inline>.—</heading><content>Any technology developed with the grants made under this section shall be treated as non-proprietary and shall be made available to the public, including to manufacturers of voting systems.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HC30B81E43826423182F78AAD56BAACA7" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordination With Grants for Technology Improvements</inline>.—</heading><content>The Director shall carry out this section so that the activities carried out with the grants made under subsection (a) are coordinated with the research conducted under the grant program carried out by the Commission under section 271, to the extent that the Director and Commission determine necessary to provide for the advancement of accessible voting technology.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H2CEC2515BEB644A59B150DA5B4E79B9E" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out subsection (a) $5,000,000, to remain available until expended.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/2" id="H345621D0DC9B4A5489FFB54BDB0F405B" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/2/A" id="HA3A5FEF662624F8AA5999210E3B4DD78" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the item relating to section 247 as relating to section 248; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/b/2/B" id="HDF5B9E5973B948E9B2A11A8A96ABBE22" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 246 the following new item:
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<designator>“Sec. 247. </designator>
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<label>Study and report on accessible paper ballot verification mechanisms.”</label>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/c" id="HA79F914CDE584489B70D68C33D21F1EF" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clarification of Accessibility Standards Under Voluntary Voting System Guidance</inline>.—</heading><content>In adopting any voluntary guidance under subtitle B of title III of the Help America Vote Act with respect to the accessibility of the paper ballot verification requirements for individuals with disabilities, the Election Assistance Commission shall include and apply the same accessibility standards applicable under the voluntary guidance adopted for accessible voting systems under such subtitle.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1503/d" id="HC5255FFA53A145148DD1492785D9B207" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting Use of Funds for Protection and Advocacy Systems to Support Actions to Enforce Election-related Disability Access</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 292(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21062/a">52 U.S.C. 21062(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; except that</quotedText>” and all that follows and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> a period.</content></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1504" id="H8F00654812B34A09BBFC4CE8224CC380"><num value="1504">SEC. 1504. </num><heading>DURABILITY AND READABILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR BALLOTS.</heading><content>Section 301(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/a">52 U.S.C. 21081(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H69AAB94D42584B91A22DD0C7E40D6893" class="indent1"><num value="7">“(7) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Durability and readability requirements for ballots</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HAC236F6771084B7D944213C7F2337C19" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Durability requirements for paper ballots</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H1DF89118D4974E9A9707F1CC59E7302B" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>All voter-verified paper ballots required to be used under this Act shall be marked or printed on durable paper.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HDAC21488553640DEBDA36B00441EC727" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definition</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this Act, paper is ‘durable’ if it is capable of withstanding multiple counts and recounts by hand without compromising the fundamental integrity of the ballots, and capable of retaining the information marked or printed on them for the full duration of a retention and preservation period of 22 months.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5C39276CF66941D883C15655704C029C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Readability requirements for paper ballots marked by ballot marking device</inline>.—</heading><content>All voter-verified paper ballots completed by the voter through the use of a ballot marking device shall be clearly readable by the voter without assistance (other than eyeglasses or other personal vision enhancing devices) and by an optical character recognition device or other device equipped for individuals with disabilities.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stF/s1505" id="HBA5CF1CE86984515923AFAC066F0F33F"><num value="1505">SEC. 1505. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE FOR NEW REQUIREMENTS.</heading><content>Section 301(d) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/d">52 U.S.C. 21081(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="HBEEC7B1320F64A039C024774E4856120" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HC8FAF3F454EB466FB89A07A9CC3FB7E2" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in paragraph (2), each State and jurisdiction shall be required to comply with the requirements of this section on and after January 1, 2006.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H0218F719346D4689A69BFE4BECB98169" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for certain requirements</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H953C3D8FADF942CAB5338E73FC7AE500" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as provided in subparagraphs (B) and (C), the requirements of this section which are first imposed on a State and jurisdiction pursuant to the amendments made by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 shall apply with respect to voting systems used for any election for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H26910B3FE3F0431AB77A4F7ACAA16145" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Delay for jurisdictions using certain paper record printers or certain systems using or producing voter-verifiable paper records in 2018</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H21787E0E149C494BBBCDFB7C9C2F758E" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Delay</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of a jurisdiction described in clause (ii), subparagraph (A) shall apply to a voting system in the jurisdiction as if the reference in such subparagraph to ‘2020’ were a reference to ‘2022’, but only with respect to the following requirements of this section:</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HC1D6BB7FB7694D6AB545F163CBFFA204" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>Paragraph (2)(A)(i)(I) of subsection (a) (relating to the use of voter-verified paper ballots).</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H99B528B855504070BF1D699F92566939" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>Paragraph (3)(B)(ii)(I) and (II) of subsection (a) (relating to access to verification from and casting of the durable paper ballot).</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HE7A63BB0270744DE9BD1C882C69E5ABD" class="indent4"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>Paragraph (7) of subsection (a) (relating to durability and readability requirements for ballots).</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause id="HAE7B871BE69B4714ABC1761EF7F14CF5" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Jurisdictions described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A jurisdiction described in this clause is a jurisdiction—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="H26E8E56A352E4A9F8FF26DAF52995DF8" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>which used voter verifiable paper record printers attached to direct recording electronic voting machines, or which used other voting systems that used or produced paper records of the vote verifiable by voters but that are not in compliance with paragraphs (2)(A)(i)(I), (3)(B)(iii)(I) and (II), and (7) of subsection (a) (as amended or added by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019), for the administration of the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2018; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HEEBFB650429847F48CF41FA419B31007" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>which will continue to use such printers or systems for the administration of elections for Federal office held in years before 2022.</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause id="H468204E695B64B2F8454444AE6DEAFB2" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory availability of paper ballots at polling places using grandfathered printers and systems</inline>.—</heading>
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<subclause id="HE7607866AF5745CBA16ADCD37B89B1AF" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring ballots to be offered and provided</inline>.—</heading><content>The appropriate election official at each polling place that uses a printer or system described in clause (ii)(I) for the administration of elections for Federal office shall offer each individual who is eligible to cast a vote in the election at the polling place the opportunity to cast the vote using a blank pre-printed paper ballot which the individual may mark by hand and which is not produced by the direct recording electronic voting machine or other such system. The official shall provide the individual with the ballot and the supplies necessary to mark the ballot, and shall ensure (to the greatest extent practicable) that the waiting period for the individual to cast a vote is the lesser of 30 minutes or the average waiting period for an individual who does not agree to cast the vote using such a paper ballot under this clause.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HC951348895E74359BB1DFF1E33989BBA" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of ballot</inline>.—</heading><content>Any paper ballot which is cast by an individual under this clause shall be counted and otherwise treated as a regular ballot for all purposes (including by incorporating it into the final unofficial vote count (as defined by the State) for the precinct) and not as a provisional ballot, unless the individual casting the ballot would have otherwise been required to cast a provisional ballot.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HBDEFF1A1511641B89E70A3D51AB39D02" class="indent4"><num value="III">“(III) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Posting of notice</inline>.—</heading><content>The appropriate election official shall ensure there is prominently displayed at each polling place a notice that describes the obligation of the official to offer individuals the opportunity to cast votes using a pre-printed blank paper ballot.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H124125C3CEE74D91B68069A099725ABC" class="indent4"><num value="IV">“(IV) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Training of election officials</inline>.—</heading><content>The chief State election official shall ensure that election officials at polling places in the State are aware of the requirements of this clause, including the requirement to display a notice under subclause (III), and are aware that it is a violation of the requirements of this title for an election official to fail to offer an individual the opportunity to cast a vote using a blank pre-printed paper ballot.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HC754B2D3685149669FA8C4A90CCF78C1" class="indent4"><num value="V">“(V) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Period of applicability</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirements of this clause apply only during the period in which the delay is in effect under clause (i).</content></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF23C133092634394BDD3724E3CC262E2" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for jurisdictions using certain nontabulating ballot marking devices</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of a jurisdiction which uses a nontabulating ballot marking device which automatically deposits the ballot into a privacy sleeve, subparagraph (A) shall apply to a voting system in the jurisdiction as if the reference in such subparagraph to ‘any election for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year’ were a reference to ‘elections for Federal office occurring held in 2022 or each succeeding year’, but only with respect to paragraph (3)(B)(iii)(II) of subsection (a) (relating to nonmanual casting of the durable paper ballot).”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG" id="HC041C9758ABD47CD9DD1DF5FC0275E55"><num value="G">Subtitle G—</num><heading>Provisional Ballots</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG/s1601" id="HD0F24FF206C545A1AC2432F68EE9BA29"><num value="1601">SEC. 1601. </num><heading>REQUIREMENTS FOR COUNTING PROVISIONAL BALLOTS; ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIFORM AND NONDISCRIMINATORY STANDARDS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG/s1601/a" id="H6C166C73FDC14608970AF22370D1AAC0" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 302 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082">52 U.S.C. 21082</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG/s1601/a/1" id="HD2D697DC740B40FE8FA23B6AB629DF2E" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (d) as subsection (f); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG/s1601/a/2" id="H03BDA5EA033B41DEA79803F62431C74F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (c) the following new subsections:
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<subsection id="H17ED786AA8B1474E80A106F2C94F467E" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Statewide Counting of Provisional Ballots</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H464B97C741F04B28833F8CB87E42EC79" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of subsection (a)(4), notwithstanding the precinct or polling place at which a provisional ballot is cast within the State, the appropriate election official shall count each vote on such ballot for each election in which the individual who cast such ballot is eligible to vote.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9569F1F7DC6648B383ED8562DDAAFD99" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>This subsection shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7153D4AB89E74AC38E3656F35789B321" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Uniform and Nondiscriminatory Standards</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H2F494A812DB847E78DAD8AFBC50D62B8" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Consistent with the requirements of this section, each State shall establish uniform and nondiscriminatory standards for the issuance, handling, and counting of provisional ballots.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HAC33175EE8004C9ABBDA52B4278C404E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>This subsection shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stG/s1601/b" id="H6778E94564FC49BBA818F59AECD34E0A" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 302(f) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/f">52 U.S.C. 21082(f)</ref>), as redesignated by subsection (a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Each State</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Except as provided in subsections (d)(2) and (e)(2), each State</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH" id="HEB0E861350B74A72A6542E64D00D8003"><num value="H">Subtitle H—</num><heading>Early Voting</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611" id="HDF5D1D039D52449A87C72F7ADF1C39BA"><num value="1611">SEC. 1611. </num><heading>EARLY VOTING.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/a" id="H8FDE0C96F115497DBA5AAD7E9B53C480" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subtitle A of title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 1031(a) and section 1101(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/a/1" id="HBDF226B845A14CAC98CA0EC2A3512BBC" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> sections 306 and 307 as sections 307 and 308; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/a/2" id="HD82CD86EADD8471B96351B0CF3CD3A78" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 305 the following new section:
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<section id="HE03F8D26F2C242918714E60423D5D89A"><num value="306">“SEC. 306. </num><heading>EARLY VOTING.</heading>
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<subsection id="HB03F87F2B13A4BBD886FB59AB3401F07" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Voting Prior to Date of Election</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H3D473450BB5C42E4BE5F066A2A4F1B86" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall allow individuals to vote in an election for Federal office during an early voting period which occurs prior to the date of the election, in the same manner as voting is allowed on such date.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB789FF0BEE7E43709D7AA3E66F468583" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Length of period</inline>.—</heading><content>The early voting period required under this subsection with respect to an election shall consist of a period of consecutive days (including weekends) which begins on the 15th day before the date of the election (or, at the option of the State, on a day prior to the 15th day before the date of the election) and ends on the date of the election.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HA18E0D41ACEA480A9744790B8B045CA0" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Minimum Early Voting Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each polling place which allows voting during an early voting period under subsection (a) shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HEF1A655DF68A4E0CA9DD15943F354CF7" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>allow such voting for no less than 4 hours on each day, except that the polling place may allow such voting for fewer than 4 hours on Sundays; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3EDEE942C14548B4A587453B8B80BAC1" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>have uniform hours each day for which such voting occurs.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H98827D895A324E85AD0F0A4F636508F4" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Location of Polling Places Near Public Transportation</inline>.—</heading><content>To the greatest extent practicable, a State shall ensure that each polling place which allows voting during an early voting period under subsection (a) is located within walking distance of a stop on a public transportation route.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HC5321F0A257F47C0988BB1FC41414EE0" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Standards</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H7E56E0177F1B4F4D9F16261B1201DA07" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall issue standards for the administration of voting prior to the day scheduled for a Federal election. Such standards shall include the nondiscriminatory geographic placement of polling places at which such voting occurs.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF9F32E7874D64D81A2DC51A0FE126B23" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deviation</inline>.—</heading><content>The standards described in paragraph (1) shall permit States, upon providing adequate public notice, to deviate from any requirement in the case of unforeseen circumstances such as a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or a change in voter turnout.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HA1290CB93FB1460FB43D6D5FE91D9FA5" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/b" id="H51A051466801447CA6091661BB75A73B" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Relating to Issuance of Voluntary Guidance by Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 311(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21101/b">52 U.S.C. 21101(b)</ref>), as amended by section 1101(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/b/1" id="HB6E6156A1F2A474C8738C8A4EE99E150" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (3);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/b/2" id="H374D3D359DA944C280B58B0C8EBCFEA7" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (4) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/b/3" id="H2FD5A7BB8F984D0BAEF1657BBCEA87AB" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDDB7327A453C401A8F9DFAB649E7F667" styleType="OLC">
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<paragraph id="HC2A277675D0D4D04930C4837AC6E92F8" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>in the case of the recommendations with respect to section 306, June 30, 2020.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/c" id="HD9DB3E0AE2CF4649A6C71DE607438C25" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1031(c) and section 1101(d), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/c/1" id="H7430EC5BC05646738712DC13AC8B314C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the items relating to sections 306 and 307 as relating to sections 307 and 308; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stH/s1611/c/2" id="HE4F070FDB78F4796A4B236423F57FB8A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 305 the following new item:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H675084F0F3ED44F4B5C303D1CA7AA894" styleType="OLC">
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<designator>“Sec. 306. </designator>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI" id="HDAB0724110094D808D2D3484C75055F4"><num value="I">Subtitle I—</num><heading>Voting by Mail</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621" id="H6ABDA5F4AD794A1A81EE6E589D582209"><num value="1621">SEC. 1621. </num><heading>VOTING BY MAIL.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/a" id="HF9FA0F3559964C80A4134DD8211244CC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subtitle A of title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 1031(a), section 1101(a), and section 1611(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/a/1" id="H72A97B6DFC3042CAAEE075A88BDF63B6" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> sections 307 and 308 as sections 308 and 309; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/a/2" id="H0245E6BFA95F48EBA2C9EB3EA5C6C129" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 306 the following new section:
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<section id="HD05602A4558C48C2B6A68E2F071C8AC1"><num value="307">“SEC. 307. </num><heading>PROMOTING ABILITY OF VOTERS TO VOTE BY MAIL.</heading>
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<subsection id="HA9955E82E02949768145D3FD2F71A124" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>If an individual in a State is eligible to cast a vote in an election for Federal office, the State may not impose any additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of the individual to cast the vote in such election by absentee ballot by mail, except as required under subsection (b) and except to the extent that the State imposes a deadline for requesting the ballot and related voting materials from the appropriate State or local election official and for returning the ballot to the appropriate State or local election official.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H761520AF341540798407F69A12921CE5" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Signature Verification</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H2221A318635242B88348144817BADC77" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may not accept and process an absentee ballot submitted by any individual with respect to an election for Federal office unless the State verifies the identification of the individual by comparing the individual’s signature on the absentee ballot with the individual’s signature on the official list of registered voters in the State, in accordance with such procedures as the State may adopt (subject to the requirements of paragraph (2)).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD1EBDD50A68D48BCBAFE43FB7F5027FA" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Due process requirements</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H31F9B9B5C72948BCAD3DA26CD234F27D" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice and opportunity to cure discrepancy</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If an individual submits an absentee ballot and the appropriate State or local election official determines that a discrepancy exists between the signature on such ballot and the signature of such individual on the official list of registered voters in the State, such election official, prior to making a final determination as to the validity of such ballot, shall make a good faith effort to immediately notify such individual by mail, telephone, and (if available) electronic mail that—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H1E9C93AED57F4977AF499ACF82BA0DC4" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>a discrepancy exists between the signature on such ballot and the signature of such individual on the official list of registered voters in the State;</content></clause>
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<clause id="HD44E6207631E4F8A929D26A1A5CDB39A" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>such individual may provide the official with information to cure such discrepancy, either in person, by telephone, or by electronic methods; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H3D95646621194CEDB8A286377106F31B" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>if such discrepancy is not cured prior to the expiration of the 7-day period which begins on the date of the election, such ballot will not be counted.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H49DD01076F9641858B647E74212A733B" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An election official may not make a determination that a discrepancy exists between the signature on an absentee ballot and the signature of the individual who submits the ballot on the official list of registered voters in the State unless—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H437F1F24CEED4AFEA1D84387CF8137A3" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>at least 2 election officials make the determination; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H28B5C498618A4605B629AEBE2FE5E4D8" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>each official who makes the determination has received training in procedures used to verify signatures.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD533C341695F4EB6921E9F61301FC570" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Providing Balloting Materials</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If an individual requests to vote by absentee ballot in an election for Federal office, the appropriate State or local election official shall ensure that the ballot and relating voting materials are received by the individual—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H235F035326864956A74FDF9059097894" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>not later than 2 weeks before the date of the election; or</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4A7592E907C14C39A0F649B9F7DC8696" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>in the case of a State which imposes a deadline for requesting an absentee ballot and related voting materials which is less than 2 weeks before the date of the election, as expeditiously as possible.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H141D748A27B048DF8747EA8E83458DBB" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Accessibility for Individuals With Disabilities</inline>.—</heading><content>Consistent with section 305, the State shall ensure that all absentee ballots and related voting materials in elections for Federal office are accessible to individuals with disabilities in a manner that provides the same opportunity for access and participation (including with privacy and independence) as for other voters.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE2438F86274A45919872D5D2028D66A7" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Uniform Deadline for Acceptance of Mailed Ballots</inline>.—</heading><content>If a ballot submitted by an individual by mail with respect to an election for Federal office in a State is postmarked on or before the date of the election, the State may not refuse to accept or process the ballot on the grounds that the individual did not meet a deadline for returning the ballot to the appropriate State or local election official.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD3FCB14B904D4DA8A0679863C370F616" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on Ballots Submitted by Absent Military and Overseas Voters</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section may be construed to affect the treatment of any ballot submitted by an individual who is entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20301/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.</ref>).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H439245B6D85D456EABBDA62DAA2E91FA" class="indent0"><num value="g">“(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/b" id="HA8F9330693634FB1878F4AC45396D98C" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Relating to Issuance of Voluntary Guidance by Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 311(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21101/b">52 U.S.C. 21101(b)</ref>), as amended by section 1101(b) and section 1611(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/b/1" id="H1869FC5E555E4072948B0E3A01AF585A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (4);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/b/2" id="HEC4DCC5924EC458C9219CB6A44817F72" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (5) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/b/3" id="H829C90A7DC1D4FFEB0DB1AF55BD1C621" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H43BDFAA445C24193B2D3EE2662CA4186" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>in the case of the recommendations with respect to section 307, June 30, 2020.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/c" id="H9C7295D228624510A3327C5A8E4F463D" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1031(c), section 1101(d), and section 1611(c), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/c/1" id="H86092AD2CE574CEC9CE8D7E506445EEC" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> the items relating to sections 307 and 308 as relating to sections 308 and 309; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/c/2" id="H7EE2EFA7E03443FE9F42F5D98DF77C76" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 306 the following new item:
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/d" id="H2C22E76D915448C794A5060DB4C26757" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Development of Biometric Verification</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/d/1" id="HC36111565B5048F4839549A20DE149EF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Development of standards</inline>.—</heading><content>The National Institute of Standards, in consultation with the Election Assistance Commission, shall develop standards for the use of biometric methods which could be used voluntarily in place of the signature verification requirements of section 307(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as added by subsection (a)) for purposes of verifying the identification of an individual voting by absentee ballot in elections for Federal office.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/d/2" id="HBDFA6A2BD7E648978881AB3B40FEB1BA" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public notice and comment</inline>.—</heading><content>The National Institute of Standards shall solicit comments from the public in the development of standards under paragraph (1).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stI/s1621/d/3" id="H97D335596D334DB7820AC8B5E26B6716" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the National Institute of Standards shall publish the standards developed under paragraph (1).</content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ" id="H7D7FE6B248B84E82B0EB02A8C0098A9A"><num value="J">Subtitle J—</num><heading>Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1701" id="H403FAE50948B46D8BAF6F32137DB475D"><num value="1701">SEC. 1701. </num><heading>PRE-ELECTION REPORTS ON AVAILABILITY AND TRANSMISSION OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.</heading><content>Section 102(c) of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302/c">52 U.S.C. 20302(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H9C6031F5F5FB45628BE905FF80F4B347" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports on Availability, Transmission, and Receipt of Absentee Ballots</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H14053DE567714CB8950E7DEA8178EA54" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Pre-election report on absentee ballot availability</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 55 days before any regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, each State shall submit a report to the Attorney General, the Election Assistance Commission (hereafter in this subsection referred to as the ‘Commission’), and the Presidential Designee, and make that report publicly available that same day, certifying that absentee ballots for the election are or will be available for transmission to absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters by not later than 45 days before the election. The report shall be in a form prescribed jointly by the Attorney General and the Commission and shall require the State to certify specific information about ballot availability from each unit of local government which will administer the election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF4FD1BCAF4E143DE8BC1DAD3C39D6567" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Pre-election report on absentee ballot transmission</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 43 days before any regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, each State shall submit a report to the Attorney General, the Commission, and the Presidential Designee, and make that report publicly available that same day, certifying whether all absentee ballots have been transmitted by not later than 45 days before the election to all qualified absent uniformed services and overseas voters whose requests were received at least 45 days before the election. The report shall be in a form prescribed jointly by the Attorney General and the Commission, and shall require the State to certify specific information about ballot transmission, including the total numbers of ballot requests received and ballots transmitted, from each unit of local government which will administer the election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H39AEE6B7181C47E6879C01E93C366781" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Post-election report on number of absentee ballots transmitted and received</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, each State and unit of local government which administered the election shall (through the State, in the case of a unit of local government) submit a report to the Attorney General, the Commission, and the Presidential Designee on the combined number of absentee ballots transmitted to absent uniformed services voters and overseas voters for the election and the combined number of such ballots which were returned by such voters and cast in the election, and shall make such report available to the general public that same day.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1702" id="H84837E828E594EBC9E3253725A0A1F59"><num value="1702">SEC. 1702. </num><heading>ENFORCEMENT.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1702/a" id="HAE383D3E532F48C5B683B08C2B432732" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Civil Penalties and Private Rights of Action</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 105 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20307">52 U.S.C. 20307</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<section id="HA9CBCA69192F41F1B15C708ED68FC41D"><num value="105">“SEC. 105. </num><heading>ENFORCEMENT.</heading>
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<subsection id="H75B048894F1C4A8D8BD05855CB7CFC09" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Action by Attorney General</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HC5A5D1801F2A44FDBC3EFC906F8BE753" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General may bring civil action in an appropriate district court for such declaratory or injunctive relief as may be necessary to carry out this title.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6DF0628199A647A1AE02CDE70CE18597" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Penalty</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In a civil action brought under paragraph (1), if the court finds that the State violated any provision of this title, it may, to vindicate the public interest, assess a civil penalty against the State—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H1C7DA526DF714B2789800706A0913E5C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>in an amount not to exceed $110,000 for each such violation, in the case of a first violation; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3430E77E3A9E4DBFA221ED891AD35935" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in an amount not to exceed $220,000 for each such violation, for any subsequent violation.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4A7A0E0DB266482A8F0128C9595886D9" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report to congress</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than December 31 of each year, the Attorney General shall submit to Congress an annual report on any civil action brought under paragraph (1) during the preceding year.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H3951D9F000254799AF38354882F6A224" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Private Right of Action</inline>.—</heading><content>A person who is aggrieved by a State’s violation of this title may bring a civil action in an appropriate district court for such declaratory or injunctive relief as may be necessary to carry out this title.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H68DCCDB14C3E417D9AB5B51264F120D0" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">State as Only Necessary Defendant</inline>.—</heading><content>In any action brought under this section, the only necessary party defendant is the State, and it shall not be a defense to any such action that a local election official or a unit of local government is not named as a defendant, notwithstanding that a State has exercised the authority described in section 576 of the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act to delegate to another jurisdiction in the State any duty or responsibility which is the subject of an action brought under this section.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1702/b" id="H5FE48DF412DE402189AE3F512A6E1ED9" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to violations alleged to have occurred on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703" id="H70601E53608C4DD7B1B03357BBE9CB7F"><num value="1703">SEC. 1703. </num><heading>REVISIONS TO 45-DAY ABSENTEE BALLOT TRANSMISSION RULE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703/a" id="HB9F972A7E2914718A43BCF0BFD22C8B1" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of Waiver Authority</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703/a/1" id="H3E3B0A138A884DCD986AFD40D5AC7BE7" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302">52 U.S.C. 20302</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (g).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703/a/2" id="H510C1844FD3F4C5790DF15823399F2CA" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102(a)(8)(A) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302/a/8/A">52 U.S.C. 20302(a)(8)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>except as provided in subsection (g),</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703/b" id="H3E177608AD7D4E42A373088FEBE1B245" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Use of Express Delivery in Case of Failure to Meet Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302">52 U.S.C. 20302</ref>), as amended by subsection (a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (f) the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H4A52DDED74434B6BB86CE95054CF2DCE" class="indent0"><num value="g">“(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Use of Express Delivery in Case of Failure To Transmit Ballots Within Deadlines</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HF7C827F550E94F1C8BF36098D1AC0C91" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transmission of ballot by express delivery</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a State fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a)(8)(A) to transmit a validly requested absentee ballot to an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter not later than 45 days before the election (in the case in which the request is received at least 45 days before the election)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H70A494834BD04F1FB4A44C947EDC31DB" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the State shall transmit the ballot to the voter by express delivery; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HA43533AB4922455C8683B235CA632EBB" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in the case of a voter who has designated that absentee ballots be transmitted electronically in accordance with subsection (f)(1), the State shall transmit the ballot to the voter electronically.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H8370841E4FB14EB7854F70F78FE4CB5F" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for transmission fewer than 40 days before the election</inline>.—</heading><content>If, in carrying out paragraph (1), a State transmits an absentee ballot to an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter fewer than 40 days before the election, the State shall enable the ballot to be returned by the voter by express delivery, except that in the case of an absentee ballot of an absent uniformed services voter for a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the State may satisfy the requirement of this paragraph by notifying the voter of the procedures for the collection and delivery of such ballots under section 103A.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1703/c" id="H8958EDCBC83B46BFAAB0483E953FA918" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clarification of Treatment of Weekends</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 102(a)(8)(A) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20302/a/8/A">52 U.S.C. 20302(a)(8)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the election;</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>the election (or, if the 45th day preceding the election is a weekend or legal public holiday, not later than the most recent weekday which precedes such 45th day and which is not a legal public holiday, but only if the request is received by at least such most recent weekday);</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1704" id="HA5A8E32C75424DCA98A5426B65B19E83"><num value="1704">SEC. 1704. </num><heading>USE OF SINGLE ABSENTEE BALLOT APPLICATION FOR SUBSEQUENT ELECTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1704/a" id="H57EB6ED5E45F460AA9AA0B2242D82BE9" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 104 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20306">52 U.S.C. 20306</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<section id="HD09A76D13CFE4DDA891F6D119C0F9BCA"><num value="104">“SEC. 104. </num><heading>USE OF SINGLE APPLICATION FOR SUBSEQUENT ELECTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H5C36889A069147E1A43D1151DEE97D60" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>If a State accepts and processes an official post card form (prescribed under section 101) submitted by an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter for simultaneous voter registration and absentee ballot application (in accordance with section 102(a)(4)) and the voter requests that the application be considered an application for an absentee ballot for each subsequent election for Federal office held in the State through the next regularly scheduled general election for Federal office (including any runoff elections which may occur as a result of the outcome of such general election), the State shall provide an absentee ballot to the voter for each such subsequent election.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HCF0D3C51E0094BAE9A7A466D09C0AE03" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for Voters Changing Registration</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a voter registered to vote in a State for any election held after the voter notifies the State that the voter no longer wishes to be registered to vote in the State or after the State determines that the voter has registered to vote in another State or is otherwise no longer eligible to vote in the State.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H05C11427A4E54869BFFE2297B1543592" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition of Refusal of Application on Grounds of Early Submission</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may not refuse to accept or to process, with respect to any election for Federal office, any otherwise valid voter registration application or absentee ballot application (including the postcard form prescribed under section 101) submitted by an absent uniformed services voter or overseas voter on the grounds that the voter submitted the application before the first date on which the State otherwise accepts or processes such applications for that election which are submitted by absentee voters who are not members of the uniformed services or overseas citizens.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1704/b" id="HB1574771657A4EA3ADDE4293D456C807" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to voter registration and absentee ballot applications which are submitted to a State or local election official on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stJ/s1705" id="H0195CB52E4EB439083A36C9A3DDD64F1"><num value="1705">SEC. 1705. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading><content class="block">The amendments made by this subtitle shall apply with respect to elections occurring on or after January 1, 2020.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK" id="HB9664C8D8F154A7AB2F3F0379737C637"><num value="K">Subtitle K—</num><heading>Poll Worker Recruitment and Training</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1801" id="H755147672F43495DB187F9E19F49D2B2"><num value="1801">SEC. 1801. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802" id="HE206A14BF98443DB851D4EC2F45350E0"><num value="1802">SEC. 1802. </num><heading>GRANTS TO STATES FOR POLL WORKER RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/a" id="H61DF4BDB2F1D49B783572D976AA55748" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Grants by Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/a/1" id="H0BD094E41D684BFE9AAB764335B2002C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Election Assistance Commission (hereafter referred to as the “Commission”) shall make a grant to each eligible State for recruiting and training individuals to serve as poll workers on dates of elections for public office.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/a/2" id="H0FAA17D38C3D4F709124E96C3A1FF2C1" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of commission materials</inline>.—</heading><content>In carrying out activities with a grant provided under this section, the recipient of the grant shall use the manual prepared by the Commission on successful practices for poll worker recruiting, training and retention as an interactive training tool, and shall develop training programs with the participation and input of experts in adult learning.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b" id="HE5770EBDEEDA4692A61B7C4383453EBD" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for Eligibility</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/1" id="HBC536B60AA464BF5B474EE3739E709D2" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State that desires to receive a payment under this section shall submit an application for the payment to the Commission at such time and in such manner and containing such information as the Commission shall require.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/2" id="H110F4B7D044D4F889EC99EEF6AD356F0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contents of application</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each application submitted under paragraph (1) shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/2/A" id="H0B8CC40E240D4F51B2E40BD63F7FEA05" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>describe the activities for which assistance under this section is sought;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/2/B" id="H0D40DEFD222D40F7BB24433D93C0D565" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>provide assurances that the funds provided under this section will be used to supplement and not supplant other funds used to carry out the activities;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/2/C" id="H26B2502138DD49F7BB678688008C931A" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>provide assurances that the State will furnish the Commission with information on the number of individuals who served as poll workers after recruitment and training with the funds provided under this section; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/b/2/D" id="H8C09C10404FD4F2D9CCEDB734F4C7BBA" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>provide such additional information and certifications as the Commission determines to be essential to ensure compliance with the requirements of this section.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c" id="H46D78B0F0A9545DBBE2D501E0C99BC5B" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of Grant</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/1" id="H7374F1D9955F49CCB3E5C52243253507" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amount of a grant made to a State under this section shall be equal to the product of—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/1/A" id="HCF9556914EDC42369296EC8BEFDA1780" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>the aggregate amount made available for grants to States under this section; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/1/B" id="H40C34717A341456E9A48D3A5FE3866A1" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>the voting age population percentage for the State.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/2" id="H1484EE7B604249EE958FC8DEA82418A0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voting age population percentage defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In paragraph (1), the “voting age population percentage” for a State is the quotient of—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/2/A" id="H5120B07B74CB4957AD756A5653D9B953" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>the voting age population of the State (as determined on the basis of the most recent information available from the Bureau of the Census); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/c/2/B" id="H06F74BC2F2CD40F49AD375B442EFA0A3" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>the total voting age population of all States (as determined on the basis of the most recent information available from the Bureau of the Census).</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/d" id="H681189E89C754A909840D981C40C2D7B" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports to Congress</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/d/1" id="H7347DF8ED08C46499D4290E765CB76BE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports by recipients of grants</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the date on which the final grant is made under this section, each recipient of a grant shall submit a report to the Commission on the activities conducted with the funds provided by the grant.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/d/2" id="H3C4CC899EEA143C1B66415CFE47F2142" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports by commission</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 1 year after the date on which the final grant is made under this section, the Commission shall submit a report to Congress on the grants made under this section and the activities carried out by recipients with the grants, and shall include in the report such recommendations as the Commission considers appropriate.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/e" id="HB70284A5E5C94A1ABBC52F7312EF62D1" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Funding</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/e/1" id="H763492660A26449881F11AC2B072B016" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Continuing availability of amount appropriated</inline>.—</heading><content>Any amount appropriated to carry out this section shall remain available without fiscal year limitation until expended.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1802/e/2" id="HD45F5D8CF87C442EB6E7E4A95704CD28" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Administrative expenses</inline>.—</heading><content>Of the amount appropriated for any fiscal year to carry out this section, not more than 3 percent shall be available for administrative expenses of the Commission.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stK/s1803" id="H54A14B1F9BBF4D2CBC4DEEEEEB5ABDD6"><num value="1803">SEC. 1803. </num><heading>STATE DEFINED.</heading><content class="block">In this subtitle, the term “<term>State</term>” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL" id="H7340507BCA8B4302A6E1B6774A8E14FD"><num value="L">Subtitle L—</num><heading>Enhancement of Enforcement</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL/s1811" id="H7465D85BA59A4257A04BE93EEF57E110"><num value="1811">SEC. 1811. </num><heading>ENHANCEMENT OF ENFORCEMENT OF HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL/s1811/a" id="H9239A075D5B842E6A9F6D75CCFF2EB14" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Complaints; Availability of Private Right of Action</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 401 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21111">52 U.S.C. 21111</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL/s1811/a/1" id="H14C64F7A28EB42419FCB2393553D2FC9" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>The Attorney General</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(a) <headingText role="subsection" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">In General.—</headingText>The Attorney General</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL/s1811/a/2" id="H5A1541C44B26463CA9BC052A159A30D5" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsections:
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<subsection id="H697DA8BDC83842AFBC0AD6DA8AC7F645" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Filing of Complaints by Aggrieved Persons</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H7540EE02089C499F80CC6C58A2986B63" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>A person who is aggrieved by a violation of title III which has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur may file a written, signed, notarized complaint with the Attorney General describing the violation and requesting the Attorney General to take appropriate action under this section. The Attorney General shall immediately provide a copy of a complaint filed under the previous sentence to the entity responsible for administering the State-based administrative complaint procedures described in section 402(a) for the State involved.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB39B3CB7938542179A4F31A144FC4E16" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Response by attorney general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General shall respond to each complaint filed under paragraph (1), in accordance with procedures established by the Attorney General that require responses and determinations to be made within the same (or shorter) deadlines which apply to a State under the State-based administrative complaint procedures described in section 402(a)(2). The Attorney General shall immediately provide a copy of the response made under the previous sentence to the entity responsible for administering the State-based administrative complaint procedures described in section 402(a) for the State involved.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H2DE6BE930F2141A8A98C2F71F9A42CA6" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Private Right of Action</inline>.—</heading><content>Any person who is authorized to file a complaint under subsection (b)(1) (including any individual who seeks to enforce the individual’s right to a voter-verified paper ballot, the right to have the voter-verified paper ballot counted in accordance with this Act, or any other right under title III) may file an action under section 1979 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s1983">42 U.S.C. 1983</ref>) to enforce the uniform and nondiscriminatory election technology and administration requirements under subtitle A of title III.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H0EA1B08CE08F466D9788140C0DB77607" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on State Procedures</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section may be construed to affect the availability of the State-based administrative complaint procedures required under section 402 to any person filing a complaint under this subsection.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stL/s1811/b" id="H9BFFD3EC71A140D888BC5423B07506B5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to violations occurring with respect to elections for Federal office held in 2020 or any succeeding year.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stM" id="H47DAF37E07CC4231B76A0D567A5821E7"><num value="M">Subtitle M—</num><heading>Federal Election Integrity</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stM/s1821" id="H14E49AC589B84C3BBBF5D0D2980B751B"><num value="1821">SEC. 1821. </num><heading>PROHIBITION ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES BY CHIEF STATE ELECTION ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stM/s1821/a" id="H111241E2B17643B79C51098132D48337" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/etseq">52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 319 the following new section:
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<section id="HF04921BCF9924F27B32A9F8F994CFCA7"><heading><inline class="smallCaps">“campaign activities by chief state election administration officials</inline></heading><num value="319A"><inline class="smallCaps">“Sec. 319A. </inline></num><subsection id="H89BFE6FB614D404B99567C415580CC98" class="inline"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition</inline>.—</heading><content>It shall be unlawful for a chief State election administration official to take an active part in political management or in a political campaign with respect to any election for Federal office over which such official has supervisory authority.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H23EA4F8BC3C2498BACD010C2DEA47DA0" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Chief State Election Administration Official</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>chief State election administration official</term>’ means the highest State official with responsibility for the administration of Federal elections under State law.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H56E5D702A83141578053993D4FD41F07" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Active Part in Political Management or in a Political Campaign</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>active part in political management or in a political campaign</term>’ means—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H3174190E1AC048F89074E6248A824127" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>serving as a member of an authorized committee of a candidate for Federal office;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H054F9D5196574A53B668B73D79C86DE0" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>the use of official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election for Federal office;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H368E5711B19845DB96AD46E55AEB662B" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>the solicitation, acceptance, or receipt of a contribution from any person on behalf of a candidate for Federal office; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H558C20AF4BE04317ACBB8230BADA77DD" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>any other act which would be prohibited under paragraph (2) or (3) of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s7323/b">section 7323(b) of title 5, United States Code</ref>, if taken by an individual to whom such paragraph applies (other than any prohibition on running for public office).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDBC27A78022C4D4BB29926B4C60AF70E" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception in Case of Recusal From Administration of Elections Involving Official or Immediate Family Member</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB956A082E53948899BC30240540898C4" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>This section does not apply to a chief State election administration official with respect to an election for Federal office in which the official or an immediate family member of the official is a candidate, but only if—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H97D1EAFF67A54C26A4E3B2B591997A9C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>such official recuses himself or herself from all of the official’s responsibilities for the administration of such election; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF12E063A1CE74DF8B9BC94B6510D4FEF" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the official who assumes responsibility for supervising the administration of the election does not report directly to such official.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9AB09D50F01540AE86B872C4EEEBACDB" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Immediate family member defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In paragraph (1), the term ‘<term>immediate family member</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate, a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, father-in-law, or mother-in-law.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stM/s1821/b" id="H342031F708134EE2948C0B1C918E1E14" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to elections for Federal office held after December 2019.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN" id="H61B8DACD7FD54A03B66EEE368033AC29"><num value="N">Subtitle N—</num><heading>Promoting Voter Access Through Election Administration Improvements</heading><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1" id="H4CD018876A284961A76B7F25D2C0BA05"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>PROMOTING VOTER ACCESS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901" id="H7017B4835A9D4225B2A92572432A38B9"><num value="1901">SEC. 1901. </num><heading>TREATMENT OF INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a" id="H5740842288FD41F198133C877012E0C7" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of Certain Institutions as Voter Registration Agencies Under National Voter Registration Act of 1993</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 7(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20506/a">52 U.S.C. 20506(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a/1" id="HC6FD5719FDA6417485239C13F9A3D2E9" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (2)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a/1/A" id="HCAFBD1DEC5004C99BACE75FFECA71EB6" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (A);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a/1/B" id="H95CDD04082104E57A7A645438BC10688" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a/1/C" id="HF5F9E75561724F308FB2834578EA2A05" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="H14E680553219416FA97230B7815C8D80" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>each institution of higher education which has a program participation agreement in effect with the Secretary of Education under section 487 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1094">20 U.S.C. 1094</ref>), other than an institution which is treated as a contributing agency under the Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2019.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">; and</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/a/2" id="HA375FA2D3D9B450F9694FF58A5C11CB7" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>in paragraph (6)(A), by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or, in the case of an institution of higher education, with each registration of a student for enrollment in a course of study, including enrollment in a program of distance education, as defined in section 103(7) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1003/7">20 U.S.C. 1003(7)</ref>),</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>assistance,</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/b" id="HFBF199FECEDB42448B06E9BC029961C1" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Responsibilities of Institutions Under Higher Education Act of 1965</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/b/1" id="H537AD4E859EF4E76B3AC05832A2F94F1" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 487(a)(23) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1094/a/23">20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(23)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H15B84AAF32264A8F838E08DF0AB452AF" class="indent1"><num value="23">“(23)</num><subparagraph id="H23691564C6A04320A19A8225F4547975" class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><clause id="H335F95B2509F4C1D890460F5900FF46D" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>The institution will ensure that an appropriate staff person or office is designated publicly as a ‘Campus Vote Coordinator’ and will ensure that such person’s or office’s contact information is included on the institution’s website.</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H854CD996413540CC840335B101D753A4" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><chapeau>Not fewer than twice during each calendar year (beginning with 2020), the Campus Vote Coordinator shall transmit electronically to each student enrolled in the institution (including students enrolled in distance education programs) a message containing the following information:</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HFB32C262EBCA4E87B1BE7633161416E2" class="indent2"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>Information on the location of polling places in the jurisdiction in which the institution is located, together with information on available methods of transportation to and from such polling places.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HAD33617EDB8F485381418ABEA697A0F9" class="indent2"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>A referral to a government-affiliated website or online platform which provides centralized voter registration information for all States, including access to applicable voter registration forms and information to assist individuals who are not registered to vote in registering to vote.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HEFD594054F0042F8A8FBE00E2B1C7FCD" class="indent2"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>Any additional voter registration and voting information the Coordinator considers appropriate, in consultation with the appropriate State election official.</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H427B634F99B04F679D61918AB4222410" class="indent1"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>In addition to transmitting the message described in clause (ii) not fewer than twice during each calendar year, the Campus Vote Coordinator shall transmit the message under such clause not fewer than 30 days prior to the deadline for registering to vote for any election for Federal, State, or local office in the State.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H4CFC8D6A3D4549DA9F4A665E567966B1" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>If the institution in its normal course of operations requests each student registering for enrollment in a course of study, including students registering for enrollment in a program of distance education, to affirm whether or not the student is a United States citizen, the institution will comply with the applicable requirements for a contributing agency under the Automatic Voter Registration Act of 2019.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H524B212EB0904E4AA4C3BD14303C6009" class="indent1"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>If the institution is not described in subparagraph (B), the institution will comply with the requirements for a voter registration agency in the State in which it is located in accordance with section 7 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20506">52 U.S.C. 20506</ref>).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HCE2CD3BDDFEF42C4B925C35400E7B902" class="indent1"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>This paragraph applies only with respect to an institution which is located in a State to which section 4(b) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20503/b">52 U.S.C. 20503(b)</ref>) does not apply.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/b/2" id="H107097DC96024CF39D5F2003FD942D5A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c" id="HF3FF1B34C0F74387A6CF8A7EB6AF4C65" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Grants to Institutions Demonstrating Excellence in Student Voter Registration</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/1" id="H585BB1AFF75D43E29D56A985150BCA33" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Grants authorized</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary of Education may award competitive grants to public and private nonprofit institutions of higher education that are subject to the requirements of section 487(a)(23) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t20/s1094/a/23">20 U.S.C. 1094(a)(23)</ref>), as amended by subsection (a) and that the Secretary determines have demonstrated excellence in registering students to vote in elections for public office beyond meeting the minimum requirements of such section.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2" id="H745E82CE5DD648B8AF821E10D5D896AF" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligibility</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An institution of higher education is eligible to receive a grant under this subsection if the institution submits to the Secretary of Education, at such time and in such form as the Secretary may require, an application containing such information and assurances as the Secretary may require to make the determination described in paragraph (1), including information and assurances that the institution carried out activities to promote voter registration by students, such as the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2/A" id="H7C1EEF726B98498BB9C7F78E5084B3B3" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Sponsoring large on-campus voter mobilization efforts.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2/B" id="HC571734660A54BB897752CFECF979881" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Engaging the surrounding community in nonpartisan voter registration and get out the vote efforts.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2/C" id="H363623DA7309412B975C10BFFC6A217A" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>Creating a website for students with centralized information about voter registration and election dates.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2/D" id="H5BD0BC4DAD904BB4A4460006CDA4D013" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>Inviting candidates to speak on campus.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/2/E" id="H8F9985937660429BA42F91ECAC8E71C2" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>Offering rides to students to the polls to increase voter education, registration, and mobilization.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/c/3" id="H2100EF261002425894F12036803FEF72" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to award grants under this subsection.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1901/d" id="H1B4896F9D12C4406A193517C54D5ECCA" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Sense of Congress Relating to Option of Students to Register in Jurisdiction of Institution of Higher Education or Jurisdiction of Domicile</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that, as provided under existing law, students who attend an institution of higher education and reside in the jurisdiction of the institution while attending the institution should have the option of registering to vote in elections for Federal office in that jurisdiction or in the jurisdiction of their own domicile.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1902" id="H8C338F1BCDD940C980A9015DE9AC790D"><num value="1902">SEC. 1902. </num><heading>MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTERS AFFECTED BY POLLING PLACE CHANGES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1902/a" id="H1DD53BC88C604052917A038AFAEC5F3F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 302 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082">52 U.S.C. 21082</ref>), as amended by section 1601(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1902/a/1" id="H2CF7E1FF87B0486A8D7C39D13BF8DBC4" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (f) as subsection (g); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1902/a/2" id="H3711A74D98EC4B2B8A8AA02AEB1ABEAB" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (e) the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="HDCF167D388BD4398B841594A0B2AE20C" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Minimum Notification Requirements for Voters Affected by Polling Place Changes</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H5BFFD504D0CD4391A72EE9ED3AC35E8E" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a State assigns an individual who is a registered voter in a State to a polling place with respect to an election for Federal office which is not the same polling place to which the individual was previously assigned with respect to the most recent election for Federal office in the State in which the individual was eligible to vote—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H6DE8AC6B16774C269A4B1C483D8D51F2" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the State shall notify the individual of the location of the polling place not later than 7 days before the date of the election; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD5AE263C775649C59B41F270B2F16A61" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>if the State makes such an assignment fewer than 7 days before the date of the election and the individual appears on the date of the election at the polling place to which the individual was previously assigned, the State shall make every reasonable effort to enable the individual to vote on the date of the election.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HDCF631C8D27C442AB71677BCFB7CBE3E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>This subsection shall apply with respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1902/b" id="H7BAAF69DCA6346E1A4720DA2F302B8A3" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 302(g) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/g">52 U.S.C. 21082(g)</ref>), as redesignated by subsection (a) and as amended by section 1601(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)(2) and (e)(2)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)(2), (e)(2), and (f)(2)</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1903" id="H05A4592665264046BD526613D72338C3"><num value="1903">SEC. 1903. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904" id="H4666C5B55047496F9A50F236A65EAFEB"><num value="1904">SEC. 1904. </num><heading>PERMITTING USE OF SWORN WRITTEN STATEMENT TO MEET IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTING.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/a" id="HE94D6905D49C41C2906ADB172167F363" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting Use of Statement</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 303 the following new section:
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<section id="H5B0610888E8D458CBBFF5B3584366F68"><num value="303A">“SEC. 303A. </num><heading>PERMITTING USE OF SWORN WRITTEN STATEMENT TO MEET IDENTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H842933C022B641528A6EA1B745A550B9" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Statement</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H1AE039C79D33492B8AE99DE3925F83EE" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in subsection (c), if a State has in effect a requirement that an individual present identification as a condition of receiving and casting a ballot in an election for Federal office, the State shall permit the individual to meet the requirement—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H6761CC057642467C94602C83B341ABFE" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>in the case of an individual who desires to vote in person, by presenting the appropriate State or local election official with a sworn written statement, signed by the individual under penalty of perjury, attesting to the individual’s identity and attesting that the individual is eligible to vote in the election; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HEC2B8F12DBA047489BBAD1F158CAEA20" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in the case of an individual who desires to vote by mail, by submitting with the ballot the statement described in subparagraph (A).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H11170F097A7F4B279FD4A7468D1151AC" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Development of pre-printed version of statement by commission</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall develop a pre-printed version of the statement described in paragraph (1)(A) which includes a blank space for an individual to provide a name and signature for use by election officials in States which are subject to paragraph (1).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD86BF2E665214E68B1C437D3C6EA7B41" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Providing pre-printed copy of statement</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State which is subject to paragraph (1) shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H80E61C00FBBB4BCEB6D2F42332873794" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>make copies of the pre-printed version of the statement described in paragraph (1)(A) which is prepared by the Commission available at polling places for election officials to distribute to individuals who desire to vote in person; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H4601F6ABA013450F8F27D8690987B2C1" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>include a copy of such pre-printed version of the statement with each blank absentee or other ballot transmitted to an individual who desires to vote by mail.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HB11BB5079AC246E1A0AFA208EBCA6CAE" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Use of Ballot in Same Manner as Individuals Presenting Identification</inline>.—</heading><content>An individual who presents or submits a sworn written statement in accordance with subsection (a)(1) shall be permitted to cast a ballot in the election in the same manner as an individual who presents identification.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H6B91A0075C994C32B11A1CF704281BAA" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for First-time Voters Registering by Mail</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply with respect to any individual described in paragraph (1) of section 303(b) who is required to meet the requirements of paragraph (2) of such section.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/b" id="H608C4A71B5B348F0AED48116A87A2EDF" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring States to Include Information on Use of Sworn Written Statement in Voting Information Material Posted at Polling Places</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 302(b)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21082/b/2">52 U.S.C. 21082(b)(2)</ref>), as amended by section 1072(b) and section 1202(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/b/1" id="H2D539D6B0865487784007178CE474E37" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (G);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/b/2" id="H8221005F08DC434983DE91E0C41EE73A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (H) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/b/3" id="HA2BBDB6E20024C8E8F54139069376E06" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="HBCBA70FC40544EA48C875CF2B2135419" class="indent2"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>in the case of a State that has in effect a requirement that an individual present identification as a condition of receiving and casting a ballot in an election for Federal office, information on how an individual may meet such requirement by presenting a sworn written statement in accordance with section 303A.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/c" id="H33C67B4572AE4C06A26D37681A0C161E" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 303 the following new item:
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<designator>“Sec. 303A. </designator>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1904/e" id="H66A38ACA649A4367AE46140096B31306" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to elections occurring on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1905" id="HF69F1A27F89D4B639ABB9DFB67BAFB82"><num value="1905">SEC. 1905. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1906" id="H52C64D9BF7A042B49F72FCBFE0B6A7B0"><num value="1906">SEC. 1906. </num><heading>REIMBURSEMENT FOR COSTS INCURRED BY STATES IN ESTABLISHING PROGRAM TO TRACK AND CONFIRM RECEIPT OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1906/a" id="HC3FEBB788A1B4B76BD4FB5CC1B9D41CC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reimbursement</inline>.—</heading><content>Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s15401/etseq">42 U.S.C. 15401 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new part:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HA7CEF78CD0FE4CE7A6B9F90CFAC317BF" styleType="OLC"><part id="H2424920C822D45CAB42C4EBCCAB7CC06"><num value="7">“PART 7—</num><heading>PAYMENTS TO REIMBURSE STATES FOR COSTS INCURRED IN ESTABLISHING PROGRAM TO TRACK AND CONFIRM RECEIPT OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS</heading>
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<section id="HB435B7717825412C96E99BF3DAA5B1C4"><num value="297">“SEC. 297. </num><heading>PAYMENTS TO STATES.</heading>
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<subsection id="HB747B649122D4951ADF87D58A9236952" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payments For Costs of Establishing Program</inline>.—</heading><content>In accordance with this section, the Commission shall make a payment to a State to reimburse the State for the costs incurred in establishing, if the State so chooses to establish, an absentee ballot tracking program with respect to elections for Federal office held in the State (including costs incurred prior to the date of the enactment of this part).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H3B57D7C0828A4B008ADF31ED6C7D6735" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Absentee Ballot Tracking Program Described</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB0A867F60021493492F8F282920EB344" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Program described</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H7AC357A1FE6446FD88DC02BCD013F9BD" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>In this part, an ‘absentee ballot tracking program’ is a program to track and confirm the receipt of absentee ballots in an election for Federal office under which the State or local election official responsible for the receipt of voted absentee ballots in the election carries out procedures to track and confirm the receipt of such ballots, and makes information on the receipt of such ballots available to the individual who cast the ballot, by means of online access using the Internet site of the official’s office.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5F4CC4DC69744FC78F8412785CDE0480" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Information on whether vote was counted</inline>.—</heading><content>The information referred to under subparagraph (A) with respect to the receipt of an absentee ballot shall include information regarding whether the vote cast on the ballot was counted, and, in the case of a vote which was not counted, the reasons therefor.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H88E805F0F03144269C5FAF48189B7A3D" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of toll-free telephone number by officials without internet site</inline>.—</heading><content>A program established by a State or local election official whose office does not have an Internet site may meet the description of a program under paragraph (1) if the official has established a toll-free telephone number that may be used by an individual who cast an absentee ballot to obtain the information on the receipt of the voted absentee ballot as provided under such paragraph.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD37CB71061C7447D88775F6E16A4E0BD" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification of Compliance and Costs</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H1EE9013C4F8A469E9845947BE5712D37" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification required</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In order to receive a payment under this section, a State shall submit to the Commission a statement containing—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H07CE245B003041BA9FE9E3AAE48F90AF" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a certification that the State has established an absentee ballot tracking program with respect to elections for Federal office held in the State; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC5B0E027DB02427CBA7521C0C8A3830C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>a statement of the costs incurred by the State in establishing the program.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9D5A39488F2446C5B0E28B0828DEBC56" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of payment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amount of a payment made to a State under this section shall be equal to the costs incurred by the State in establishing the absentee ballot tracking program, as set forth in the statement submitted under paragraph (1), except that such amount may not exceed the product of—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H3B2B966562A94C30A7A224E9C5380D8E" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the number of jurisdictions in the State which are responsible for operating the program; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3DDFB8D5E9D447BA9532B4264E7C364C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>$3,000.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF7B59C532E12456DA6D106D69B1EA7FF" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limit on number of payments received</inline>.—</heading><content>A State may not receive more than one payment under this part.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section id="HED5C2B0FC4D94900ADF393089DD2D1CA"><num value="297A">“SEC. 297A. </num><heading>AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H025E7DAABA4A4A108016CDBA749198BC" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization</inline>.—</heading><content>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Commission for fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary for payments under this part.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H8E65838FA7C64475A2C131F90149B2AF" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Continuing Availability of Funds</inline>.—</heading><content>Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization under this section shall remain available until expended.”</content></subsection></section></part></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1906/b" id="H444935D3897646AD986CE1DFBDEF9DAD" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following:
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<designator>“<inline class="smallCaps">Part 7</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Payments to Reimburse States for Costs Incurred in Establishing Program to Track and Confirm Receipt of Absentee Ballots</inline></label>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907" id="H592861FE85A3429F8AA5713BB0F372A3"><num value="1907">SEC. 1907. </num><heading>VOTER INFORMATION RESPONSE SYSTEMS AND HOTLINE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a" id="HAD25CE18F98041E8B52D6E4769A631A6" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Establishment and Operation of Systems and Services</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/1" id="H100CD42AC1BF41388B9ABDC6C811E086" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">State-based response systems</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Attorney General shall coordinate the establishment of a State-based response system for responding to questions and complaints from individuals voting or seeking to vote, or registering to vote or seeking to register to vote, in elections for Federal office. Such system shall provide—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/1/A" id="H3B8A7E54FC1E4A51970C5FAA1884A838" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>State-specific, same-day, and immediate assistance to such individuals, including information on how to register to vote, the location and hours of operation of polling places, and how to obtain absentee ballots; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/1/B" id="H1ED7C5C61A2548AA92664278F10201D1" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>State-specific, same-day, and immediate assistance to individuals encountering problems with registering to vote or voting, including individuals encountering intimidation or deceptive practices.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/2" id="HF9C62E64897E4D3CBAF74604A88EDD14" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Hotline</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Attorney General, in consultation with State election officials, shall establish and operate a toll-free telephone service, using a telephone number that is accessible throughout the United States and that uses easily identifiable numerals, through which individuals throughout the United States—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/2/A" id="H3B7E1168FDD84B008BCEAC4C46800CA2" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>may connect directly to the State-based response system described in paragraph (1) with respect to the State involved;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/2/B" id="H913056AE8D784778A200973134995C43" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>may obtain information on voting in elections for Federal office, including information on how to register to vote in such elections, the locations and hours of operation of polling places, and how to obtain absentee ballots; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/2/C" id="H3E02442CCC6344BF8F906AA49FC3D945" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>may report information to the Attorney General on problems encountered in registering to vote or voting, including incidences of voter intimidation or suppression.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/3" id="H876AC0031073474482D6047779EA435D" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Collaboration with state and local election officials</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/3/A" id="H2FA598CE917448F68953B22914A465AF" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Collection of information from states</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General shall coordinate the collection of information on State and local election laws and policies, including information on the Statewide computerized voter registration lists maintained under title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, so that individuals who contact the free telephone service established under paragraph (2) on the date of an election for Federal office may receive an immediate response on that day.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/3/B" id="H0282E8D9665240E68BAD2A6D54A70247" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Forwarding questions and complaints to states</inline>.—</heading><content>If an individual contacts the free telephone service established under paragraph (2) on the date of an election for Federal office with a question or complaint with respect to a particular State or jurisdiction within a State, the Attorney General shall forward the question or complaint immediately to the appropriate election official of the State or jurisdiction so that the official may answer the question or remedy the complaint on that date.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/a/4" id="H63530F2136944E00A6E425C7397E9F9E" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Consultation requirements for development of systems and services</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General shall ensure that the State-based response system under paragraph (1) and the free telephone service under paragraph (2) are each developed in consultation with civil rights organizations, voting rights groups, State and local election officials, voter protection groups, and other interested community organizations, especially those that have experience in the operation of similar systems and services.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/b" id="HAA0BBC1088644424AAA15691021F0E69" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Service by Individuals With Disabilities and Individuals With Limited English Language Proficiency</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General shall design and operate the telephone service established under this section in a manner that ensures that individuals with disabilities are fully able to use the service, and that assistance is provided in any language in which the State (or any jurisdiction in the State) is required to provide election materials under section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965..</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/c" id="H50F791EF6AA84DCDABAE7AFA37F33AF9" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voter Hotline Task Force</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/c/1" id="H9D8A0C5BFB0A440E8593E668F7886AA4" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Appointment by attorney general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Attorney General shall appoint individuals (in such number as the Attorney General considers appropriate but in no event fewer than 3) to serve on a Voter Hotline Task Force to provide ongoing analysis and assessment of the operation of the telephone service established under this section, and shall give special consideration in making appointments to the Task Force to individuals who represent civil rights organizations. At least one member of the Task Force shall be a representative of an organization promoting voting rights or civil rights which has experience in the operation of similar telephone services or in protecting the rights of individuals to vote, especially individuals who are members of racial, ethnic, or linguistic minorities or of communities who have been adversely affected by efforts to suppress voting rights.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/c/2" id="H3C4D2259F5F34077B65D69A507E43B3F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligibility</inline>.—</heading><content>An individual shall be eligible to serve on the Task Force under this subsection if the individual meets such criteria as the Attorney General may establish, except that an individual may not serve on the task force if the individual has been convicted of any criminal offense relating to voter intimidation or voter suppression.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/c/3" id="H61D9D7D2F527445B8B4B94CD625110CD" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Term of service</inline>.—</heading><content>An individual appointed to the Task Force shall serve a single term of 2 years, except that the initial terms of the members first appointed to the Task Force shall be staggered so that there are at least 3 individuals serving on the Task Force during each year. A vacancy in the membership of the Task Force shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/c/4" id="H042E8699ED42492AA462CD86EAA9C4E0" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No compensation for service</inline>.—</heading><content>Members of the Task Force shall serve without pay, but shall receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with applicable provisions under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/ch57/schI">subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code</ref>.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d" id="HFCB5C51CD45E440A9446D10AF6109A9D" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Bi-Annual Report to Congress</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year, the Attorney General shall submit a report to Congress on the operation of the telephone service established under this section during the previous 2 years, and shall include in the report—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d/1" id="H82B08D97931F49BAAE3AD65FD6B8311A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>an enumeration of the number and type of calls that were received by the service;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d/2" id="HE84A0046D8724F9698BDCFCDA216DA1B" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>a compilation and description of the reports made to the service by individuals citing instances of voter intimidation or suppression;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d/3" id="H076E57163DBF422FB7ABF7930344E5A2" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>an assessment of the effectiveness of the service in making information available to all households in the United States with telephone service;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d/4" id="H72C77AD0AE3644D58E281A1D95AD75DD" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>any recommendations developed by the Task Force established under subsection (c) with respect to how voting systems may be maintained or upgraded to better accommodate voters and better ensure the integrity of elections, including but not limited to identifying how to eliminate coordinated voter suppression efforts and how to establish effective mechanisms for distributing updates on changes to voting requirements; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/d/5" id="H2C58B00C590E4463BD2649A7C6826D80" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>any recommendations on best practices for the State-based response systems established under subsection (a)(1).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/e" id="H49DF82F031D349D5842EADF49EFB898B" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/e/1" id="HD618DF94FEBD4E0E8FA0FF18FB82F111" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization</inline>.—</heading><content>There are authorized to be appropriated to the Attorney General for fiscal year 2019 and each succeeding fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt1/s1907/e/2" id="HADD37F849E9E4B1F8DEE8CE7A300DA17" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Set-aside for outreach</inline>.—</heading><content>Of the amounts appropriated to carry out this section for a fiscal year pursuant to the authorization under paragraph (1), not less than 15 percent shall be used for outreach activities to make the public aware of the availability of the telephone service established under this section, with an emphasis on outreach to individuals with disabilities and individuals with limited proficiency in the English language.</content></paragraph></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2" id="HEBF19D7C62DB4DC8A5A994A5E72F956A"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>IMPROVEMENTS IN OPERATION OF ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1911" id="HD22D13F5CD22437D8E2B1E67627184F4"><num value="1911">SEC. 1911. </num><heading>REAUTHORIZATION OF ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Section 210 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20930">52 U.S.C. 20930</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1911/1" id="H3B80A796A1E843168EFEC4ED0FA26F23" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>for each of the fiscal years 2003 through 2005</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>for fiscal year 2019 and each succeeding fiscal year</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1911/2" id="H9388D6D922754D9E92DA3537170B68A8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(but not to exceed $10,000,000 for each such year)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1913" id="HF67871185D564C26A5301ED92781AD6A"><num value="1913">SEC. 1913. </num><heading>REQUIRING STATES TO PARTICIPATE IN POST-GENERAL ELECTION SURVEYS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1913/a" id="H19F722E50F35407E97FE98D4D3281B75" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 1904(a), is further amended by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 303A the following new section:
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<section id="HD2E4420FB8B944A5923480F3D48B0EB1"><num value="303B">“SEC. 303B. </num><heading>REQUIRING PARTICIPATION IN POST-GENERAL ELECTION SURVEYS.</heading>
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<subsection id="HCE0A75D2151B4E439E7B26E75EA493D7" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>Each State shall furnish to the Commission such information as the Commission may request for purposes of conducting any post-election survey of the States with respect to the administration of a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H717B7BCCBBFD424597757263F602D732" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 and any succeeding election.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1913/b" id="HF04F1AB93E55479EA42AF072D9FEAE81" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1904(c), is further amended by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 303A the following new item:
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1914" id="HCFADF054074B44E2B57100ECCE5DB2C0"><num value="1914">SEC. 1914. </num><heading>REPORTS BY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY ON USE OF FUNDS TRANSFERRED FROM ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1914/a" id="H85BDE632C59742D4AFD7B23ADD9E132D" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Reports on Use Funds as Condition of Receipt</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 231 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20971">52 U.S.C. 20971</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="HFFF83C0D38C346AFB5A8E4D9A2D072EB" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report on Use of Funds Transferred From Commission</inline>.—</heading><content>To the extent that funds are transferred from the Commission to the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology for purposes of carrying out this section during any fiscal year, the Director may not use such funds unless the Director certifies at the time of transfer that the Director will submit a report to the Commission not later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year detailing how the Director used such funds during the year.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1914/b" id="H0CC3D7B36C0E49C48B5D14386D452E05" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to fiscal year 2020 and each succeeding fiscal year.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1915" id="H65AE09190D01497896FA7CEBE4E9E3C3"><num value="1915">SEC. 1915. </num><heading>RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE OPERATIONS OF ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1915/a" id="HC4A9E536EF944850A812872596D2DFBF" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Assessment of Information Technology and Cybersecurity</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than December 31, 2019, the Election Assistance Commission shall carry out an assessment of the security and effectiveness of the Commission’s information technology systems, including the cybersecurity of such systems.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1915/b" id="HEE3C68CD1731426481A2469CAA2CD8AE" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Improvements to Administrative Complaint Procedures</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1915/b/1" id="HA3150086409041A184A27DA437EC974C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Review of procedures</inline>.—</heading><content>The Election Assistance Commission shall carry out a review of the effectiveness and efficiency of the State-based administrative complaint procedures established and maintained under section 402 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21112">52 U.S.C. 21112</ref>) for the investigation and resolution of allegations of violations of title III of such Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1915/b/2" id="HD2567D39257E44BD94C1E2A7ADD31CEE" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Recommendations to streamline procedures</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than December 31, 2019, the Commission shall submit to Congress a report on the review carried out under paragraph (1), and shall include in the report such recommendations as the Commission considers appropriate to streamline and improve the procedures which are the subject of the review.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1916" id="H159EC3B3131843D2BD36A42DBBA71B24"><num value="1916">SEC. 1916. </num><heading>REPEAL OF EXEMPTION OF ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION FROM CERTAIN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1916/a" id="HB4EC7E4D0899465CAF1E8F67AE901D08" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 205 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20925">52 U.S.C. 20925</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (e).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt2/s1916/b" id="HBF517F17D3874B8A9408BB07F71A7BF5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to contracts entered into by the Election Assistance Commission on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3" id="H047A1E5906F64C3EBC9AEF8FC65B3AAD"><num value="3">PART 3—</num><heading>MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921" id="H8033D0BC4FB34EE9B39ED25A166D268E"><num value="1921">SEC. 1921. </num><heading>APPLICATION OF LAWS TO COMMONWEALTH OF NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/a" id="H83D7D75C1E0E40AD9B97FB7C32E39CF0" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">National Voter Registration Act of 1993</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 3(4) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20502/4">52 U.S.C. 20502(4)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>States and the District of Columbia</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>States, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b" id="H73310CFB767E417D9DEE2D8DA11E53B6" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Help America Vote Act of 2002</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/1" id="H546B332312A7434B802B5BFCA59F8CD7" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coverage of commonwealth of the northern mariana islands</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 901 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21141">52 U.S.C. 21141</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and the United States Virgin Islands</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/2" id="H5AEA5DDB27394DCC86317F0239A38E97" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments to help america vote act of 2002</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Such Act is further amended as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/2/A" id="H88FB6F1B952A4615BDF6825C4E43CF9C" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The second sentence of section 213(a)(2) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20943/a/2">52 U.S.C. 20943(a)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and American Samoa</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/2/B" id="H1F260D88683E4BF6B7332E4995EE8D85" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Section 252(c)(2) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21002/c/2">52 U.S.C. 21002(c)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or the United States Virgin Islands</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the United States Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/3" id="HF3AAECE2AF7C4A3084B9CBDDCCD1064C" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to consultation of help america vote foundation with local election officials</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t36/s90102/c">Section 90102(c) of title 36, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and the United States Virgin Islands</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1921/b/4" id="H9430F6D482974C0795B1A7FF9170EF7D" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this subsection shall apply with respect to fiscal years beginning with the first fiscal year which begins after funds are appropriated to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands pursuant to the payment under section 2.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922" id="HA74B1FF31E734115A9210BCB38FA76B3"><num value="1922">SEC. 1922. </num><heading>NO EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a" id="H08F864C688C342FAB6C3696FC6E9FB9D" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as specifically provided, nothing in this title may be construed to authorize or require conduct prohibited under any of the following laws, or to supersede, restrict, or limit the application of such laws:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/1" id="HE72EE86022934EDA96922491392709BF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The Voting Rights Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s10301/etseq">52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/2" id="H8AB8419911954612AD5FA385A9F1CE54" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20101/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20101 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/3" id="H1D781C48B6354D169BE178BCEEC875EE" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20301/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20301 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/4" id="HD657BA495A3F488D85BEC36F310B923C" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20501/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20501 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/5" id="H8387E2AFC5A741C198602BFCCD1D5EF8" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s12101/etseq">42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/a/6" id="HBE4CE857D825484F954D5B908AAA233E" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (<ref href="/us/usc/t29/s701/etseq">29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/b" id="H7FB785FF959345FEA569916A7B66585C" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on Preclearance or Other Requirements Under Voting Rights Act</inline>.—</heading><content>The approval by any person of a payment or grant application under this title, or any other action taken by any person under this title, shall not be considered to have any effect on requirements for preclearance under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s10304">52 U.S.C. 10304</ref>) or any other requirements of such Act.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stN/pt3/s1922/c" id="H244E7067736F4009897C380D5CFFAFCF" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on Authority of States to Provide Greater Opportunities for Voting</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this title or the amendments made by this title may be construed to prohibit any State from enacting any law which provides greater opportunities for individuals to register to vote and to vote in elections for Federal office than are provided by this title and the amendments made by this title.</content></subsection></section></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stO" id="HFDEC6C5F801543AF84D8B7872B60282E"><num value="O">Subtitle O—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tI/stO/s1931" id="H9C464097C7DA4CD4AE504FCDC22E02BE"><num value="1931">SEC. 1931. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII" id="H17795DF03CD84DB1BDB263666FA7C768"><num value="II">TITLE II—</num><heading class="inline">ELECTION INTEGRITY</heading>
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<toc idref="H17795DF03CD84DB1BDB263666FA7C768">
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<referenceItem idref="H66C48547D7064F8EB64B489B53CB1862" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
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<referenceItem idref="H1D71721719624E07B15F6809B1DBD7A5" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H913EACBB41844F1C916AA92FFB8EC736" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H780F3FC6A4FB4380AA02DAC8005FCB88" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HEB99898F7AE340B5A6875D950D0DA545" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H6382F63F63D943B0AFC98FA8A1AC4A00" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Saving Eligible Voters From Voter Purging</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H41792651354C452194A811CB4CB22D2C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2501. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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<referenceItem idref="H2FBDE20169694F81946A6BBCBFA9382B" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2502. </designator>
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<label>Conditions for removal of voters from list of registered voters.</label>
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<referenceItem idref="HEEB013B786424B7EA7FF800B11E6814E" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>No Effect on Authority of States to Provide Greater Opportunities for Voting</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H63DCB64D9E344198BE6E7232012F0A2F" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2601. </designator>
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<label>No effect on authority of States to provide greater opportunities for voting.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HD1E086BA90A9402581114ADB5061E014" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Severability</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HACE3865B9F134D57AF3168F3B0BDE508" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 2701. </designator>
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<label>Severability.</label>
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</referenceItem></toc>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stA" id="H66C48547D7064F8EB64B489B53CB1862"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stB" id="H1D71721719624E07B15F6809B1DBD7A5"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stC" id="H913EACBB41844F1C916AA92FFB8EC736"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stD" id="H780F3FC6A4FB4380AA02DAC8005FCB88"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stE" id="HEB99898F7AE340B5A6875D950D0DA545"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF" id="H6382F63F63D943B0AFC98FA8A1AC4A00"><num value="F">Subtitle F—</num><heading>Saving Eligible Voters From Voter Purging</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2501" id="H41792651354C452194A811CB4CB22D2C"><num value="2501">SEC. 2501. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Stop Automatically Voiding Eligible Voters Off Their Enlisted Rolls in States Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Save Voters Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502" id="H2FBDE20169694F81946A6BBCBFA9382B"><num value="2502">SEC. 2502. </num><heading>CONDITIONS FOR REMOVAL OF VOTERS FROM LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/a" id="HCFD38566658941C7A1254A4376F39B4F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions Described</inline>.—</heading><content>The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20501/etseq">52 U.S.C. 20501 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 8 the following new section:
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<section id="HF3B20A1C24654DD685FC7756B887C546"><num value="8A">“SEC. 8A. </num><heading>CONDITIONS FOR REMOVAL OF VOTERS FROM OFFICIAL LIST OF REGISTERED VOTERS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H29AF38CB3E23478DA5F3D7ED6099CB98" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Verification on Basis of Objective and Reliable Evidence of Ineligibility</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HD403CA88781443FD8987E3689A2F67F9" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring verification</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a State may not remove the name of any registrant from the official list of voters eligible to vote in elections for Federal office in the State unless the State verifies, on the basis of objective and reliable evidence, that the registrant is ineligible to vote in such elections.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HBF0BEFD5AE634F34932BE911E8EFC4B5" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Factors not considered as objective and reliable evidence of ineligibility</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of paragraph (2), the following factors, or any combination thereof, shall not be treated as objective and reliable evidence of a registrant’s ineligibility to vote:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H1CE0FF25D36C4625B60159035E00C4C5" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The failure of the registrant to vote in any election.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H308C4255A5AD4004B0BB457C4E8D956F" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The failure of the registrant to respond to any notice sent under section 8(d), unless the notice has been returned as undeliverable.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HEB50988FD6624D4B97148523391440B6" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>The failure of the registrant to take any other action with respect to voting in any election or with respect to the registrant’s status as a registrant.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H4A51E0B5014246B98723D426981CFA20" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice After Removal</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H157000F124464B3FB699A3F27600A690" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notice to individual removed</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H62556A5AA3204DDCA92B9A2753E01EB2" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 48 hours after a State removes the name of a registrant from the official list of eligible voters for any reason (other than the death of the registrant), the State shall send notice of the removal to the former registrant, and shall include in the notice the grounds for the removal and information how the former registrant may contest the removal, including a telephone number for the appropriate election official., and how to contest the removal or be reinstated, including a contact phone number.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H602294E006FB434FAB9D0BDCCB5B773A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subparagraph (A) does not apply in the case of a registrant—</chapeau>
|
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<clause id="H2E2FD9136EC240A598065EEC323F10BB" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>who sends written confirmation to the State that the registrant is no longer eligible to vote in the registrar’s jurisdiction in which the registrant was registered; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HE451998D58D7468DA961C0E71EB64952" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>who is removed from the official list of eligible voters by reason of the death of the registrant.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H378F7AB9E9F049418286C4BB777527DB" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public notice</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 48 hours after conducting any general program to remove the names of ineligible voters from the official list of eligible voters (as described in section 8(a)(4)), the State shall disseminate a public notice through such methods as may be reasonable to reach the general public (including by publishing the notice in a newspaper of wide circulation or posting the notice on the websites of the appropriate election officials) that list maintenance is taking place and that registrants should check their registration status to ensure no errors or mistakes have been made. The State shall ensure that the public notice disseminated under this paragraph is in a format that is reasonably convenient and accessible to voters with disabilities, including voters who have low vision or are blind.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/b" id="H47437BE3D5724CF683EFA5E62606C1A8" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions for Transmission of Notices of Removal</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 8(d) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/d">52 U.S.C. 20507(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H5BEC196F0DFB43E1ADB7AF220844FBF0" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>A State may not transmit a notice to a registrant under this subsection unless the State obtains objective and reliable evidence (in accordance with the standards for such evidence which are described in section 8A(a)(2)) that the registrant has changed residence to a place outside the registrar’s jurisdiction in which the registrant is registered.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/c" id="HF710758423D7468995F64232CBC70C8F" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/c/1" id="H970F209F501A4085A5D085B5BE0C2671" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">National voter registration act of 1993</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 8(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20507/a">52 U.S.C. 20507(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/c/1/A" id="HFBD9E21F91594FE793DB89B486C1F795" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>in paragraph (3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>provide</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subject to section 8A, provide</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/c/1/B" id="HAB59E5E95C764CF0A462EE2427B4D083" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in paragraph (4), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>conduct</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subject to section 8A, conduct</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/c/2" id="H85742B51C0FB420598F56EF62EFAE4BD" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Help america vote act of 2002</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(a)(4)(A) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/a/4/A">52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(4)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, registrants</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, and subject to section 8A of such Act, registrants</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stF/s2502/d" id="H2D4170BF7A2044B9A43085E87440F353" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stG" id="HEEB013B786424B7EA7FF800B11E6814E"><num value="G">Subtitle G—</num><heading>No Effect on Authority of States to Provide Greater Opportunities for Voting</heading>
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||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stG/s2601" id="H63DCB64D9E344198BE6E7232012F0A2F"><num value="2601">SEC. 2601. </num><heading>NO EFFECT ON AUTHORITY OF STATES TO PROVIDE GREATER OPPORTUNITIES FOR VOTING.</heading><content class="block">Nothing in this title or the amendments made by this title may be construed to prohibit any State from enacting any law which provides greater opportunities for individuals to register to vote and to vote in elections for Federal office than are provided by this title and the amendments made by this title.</content></section></subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stH" id="HD1E086BA90A9402581114ADB5061E014"><num value="H">Subtitle H—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tII/stH/s2701" id="HACE3865B9F134D57AF3168F3B0BDE508"><num value="2701">SEC. 2701. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII" id="H782595CBA2914ADCAE72174AD4E98A94"><num value="III">TITLE III—</num><heading class="inline">ELECTION SECURITY</heading>
|
||
<toc idref="H782595CBA2914ADCAE72174AD4E98A94">
|
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<referenceItem idref="H85DD12EE476F49CBBF9A89AF0B41B214" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3000. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title; sense of Congress.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HC0D09AEC40374F34937D777DC85C7412" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Financial Support for Election Infrastructure</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H4C638B73C6A541DE8ED8378BE8125DC4" role="part">
|
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Voting System Security Improvement Grants</inline></label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HEA832F99A0E94B929AE97DB939D0F876" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HA2CF5C66B760462DBA5CF7BF3280FA35" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 3002. </designator>
|
||
<label>Coordination of voting system security activities with use of requirements payments and election administration requirements under Help America Vote Act of 2002.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HE0D967AEECAF493AB49812D50056E3FC" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3003. </designator>
|
||
<label>Incorporation of definitions.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H2F9409FDBCC94B71BAD7D8A09DE8A806" role="part">
|
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Grants for Risk-limiting Audits of Results of Elections</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H3293FFA5CDF74248B612E781F35B8783" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 3011. </designator>
|
||
<label>Grants to States for conducting risk-limiting audits of results of elections.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HDBB8636A06484475944E5B6A94FC93D0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3012. </designator>
|
||
<label>GAO analysis of effects of audits.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H0250F370CFA04AC7BBCD54FC08573C47" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">[Reserved]</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC3B87FEF92404BCFBAD6D46665E6DB31" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Security Measures</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE36D84309B25409A8CC558171863857E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Election infrastructure designation.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H216BF56F69CB4D45B559C592BDB23421" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Timely threat information.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H1DE16353B49641D39C726C087FED7E5A" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3103. </designator>
|
||
<label>Security clearance assistance for election officials.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H901A56B5A2EC45EEA7A4A382A79F8ACD" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3104. </designator>
|
||
<label>Security risk and vulnerability assessments.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H532EBABA8C9D4FD18A9216C169C51C33" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3105. </designator>
|
||
<label>Annual reports.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE7DEC1F184224568A07247DD7CB5256E" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Enhancing Protections for United States Democratic Institutions</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE9E8F6766A694261B181F0B42AC86A79" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3201. </designator>
|
||
<label>National strategy to protect United States democratic institutions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA14CA4BA1B8242809D0B9E2F8977BCDC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3202. </designator>
|
||
<label>National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HF2D3E3ADF639492AB01C9E65756901E1" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Promoting Cybersecurity Through Improvements in Election Administration</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE50490BEABEB4387BFE4C2335491E91E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Testing of existing voting systems to ensure compliance with election cybersecurity guidelines and other guidelines.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H54DD32D727644A5AA75DAD024185D7A4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of electronic poll books as part of voting systems.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H01F45513AF5D48A6B90497331C3C6F07" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3303. </designator>
|
||
<label>Pre-election reports on voting system usage.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H26D9EEA14B6B48CDBAF30467B51276B0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3304. </designator>
|
||
<label>Streamlining collection of election information.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC2B5DF3238014A299902ADAAB5D027E6" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Preventing Election Hacking</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE4B99C7E84C74620A087D310B5D6113C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H57BE1A1C9A154EB1A4CB8BB7AA26CDA5" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3402. </designator>
|
||
<label>Election Security Bug Bounty Program.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H41DF6D2B368641F4AB0BF446F331EC3F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3403. </designator>
|
||
<label>Definitions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H32AD6611C0C84132ACA7A562C609248F" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>Miscellaneous Provisions</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE275763513FC476F91D02D2BD7DA1EF6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3501. </designator>
|
||
<label>Definitions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H5DCA0DB420D54F2EB4934CB6327C1741" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3502. </designator>
|
||
<label>Initial report on adequacy of resources available for implementation.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H07B1E3CB6F98430FAF8107C47BAB7AE9" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H5614F47683AB481EA3D72994129C3328" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 3601. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/s3000" id="H85DD12EE476F49CBBF9A89AF0B41B214"><num value="3000">SEC. 3000. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE; SENSE OF CONGRESS.</heading>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/s3000/a" id="H755132AD69DF412881B9CD9A2AB47626" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Short Title</inline>.—</heading><content>This title may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="title">Election Security Act</shortTitle>”.</content></subsection>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/s3000/b" id="HAD600B7FE28649BC9D4F793A2E156C4C" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Sense of Congress on Need to Improve Election Infrastructure Security</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the sense of Congress that, in light of the lessons learned from Russian interference in the 2016 Presidential election, the Federal Government should intensify its efforts to improve the security of election infrastructure in the United States, including through the use of individual, durable, paper ballots marked by the voter by hand.</content></subsection></section>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA" id="HC0D09AEC40374F34937D777DC85C7412"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Financial Support for Election Infrastructure</heading><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1" id="H4C638B73C6A541DE8ED8378BE8125DC4"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENT GRANTS</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3001" id="HEA832F99A0E94B929AE97DB939D0F876"><num value="3001">SEC. 3001. </num><heading>GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BALLOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.</heading>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3001/a" id="HBA83FD7AF36E416190841058755726CF" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Grants</inline>.—</heading><content>Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21001/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21001 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 1906(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new part:
|
||
<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H2CB0E248F09F4902B1E2A8D171AC6891" styleType="OLC"><part id="H2A8B966256F4430DA13DEC16898D33A9"><num value="8">“PART 8—</num><heading>GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BALLOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS</heading>
|
||
<section id="H4D34860EED0240E49B762AFFB5B4CD3E"><num value="298">“SEC. 298. </num><heading>GRANTS FOR OBTAINING COMPLIANT PAPER BALLOT VOTING SYSTEMS AND CARRYING OUT VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.</heading>
|
||
<subsection id="H1F09676C4A2E4632ABA66E3F56F5FF94" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability and Use of Grant</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall make a grant to each eligible State—</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph id="H9994514BA427459DBDE1F2914D363562" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><chapeau>to replace a voting system—</chapeau>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HC8714E80E9544D3C9A08DD4045667C58" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>which does not meet the requirements which are first imposed on the State pursuant to the amendments made by the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2019 with a voting system which does meet such requirements, for use in the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020, or</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H75F84326E53A410A9597C1F76DE88A2C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>which does meet such requirements but which is not in compliance with the most recent voluntary voting system guidelines issued by the Commission prior to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 with another system which does meet such requirements and is in compliance with such guidelines; and</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H3720938D74FE4D6AA4EB50CFD0DBD592" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>to carry out voting system security improvements described in section 298A with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding election for Federal office.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="HAA9779D6C5234C5FB7707E5B6F511A03" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of Grant</inline>.—</heading><content>The amount of a grant made to a State under this section shall be such amount as the Commission determines to be appropriate, except that such amount may not be less than the product of $1 and the average of the number of individuals who cast votes in any of the two most recent regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in the State.</content></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="H75CA58F86AC74F08A52D1A22A8E4037F" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Pro Rata Reductions</inline>.—</heading><content>If the amount of funds appropriated for grants under this part is insufficient to ensure that each State receives the amount of the grant calculated under subsection (b), the Commission shall make such pro rata reductions in such amounts as may be necessary to ensure that the entire amount appropriated under this part is distributed to the States.</content></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="H21150BDB13BE4387BFEB73E2D3DA19CB" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Ability of Replacement Systems to Administer Ranked Choice Elections</inline>.—</heading><content>To the greatest extent practicable, an eligible State which receives a grant to replace a voting system under this section shall ensure that the replacement system is capable of administering a system of ranked choice voting under which each voter shall rank the candidates for the office in the order of the voter’s preference.</content></subsection></section>
|
||
<section id="H4F7BD37033C14D989BA77D569A3A51EA"><num value="298A">“SEC. 298A. </num><heading>VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS DESCRIBED.</heading>
|
||
<subsection id="H5BE21DC2411146EE8AFCC9744C6E480C" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitted Uses</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A voting system security improvement described in this section is any of the following:</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph id="HB28B09F0DBA54CA18ED346E45862009E" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The acquisition of goods and services from qualified election infrastructure vendors by purchase, lease, or such other arrangements as may be appropriate.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H21E74B2479E14B3EBE7B3F99A4D4A829" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>Cyber and risk mitigation training.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H3264633458C64CA8A5020D2EB5844230" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>A security risk and vulnerability assessment of the State’s election infrastructure which is carried out by a provider of cybersecurity services under a contract entered into between the chief State election official and the provider.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H5ED5DB6F826B4AE982AC45D8715714CE" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>The maintenance of election infrastructure, including addressing risks and vulnerabilities which are identified under either of the security risk and vulnerability assessments described in paragraph (3), except that none of the funds provided under this part may be used to renovate or replace a building or facility which is used primarily for purposes other than the administration of elections for public office.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H73AD7E3D93DF4F5DA7CC69DCA4743FDD" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>Providing increased technical support for any information technology infrastructure that the chief State election official deems to be part of the State’s election infrastructure or designates as critical to the operation of the State’s election infrastructure.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="HC7557665084F41B68BC248E0D6B4A1FE" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>Enhancing the cybersecurity and operations of the information technology infrastructure described in paragraph (4).</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="HC266CEAFD69D4A448FDD77F50076E641" class="indent1"><num value="7">“(7) </num><content>Enhancing the cybersecurity of voter registration systems.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="H1E7DCA4AD1B24F888E7ED33C67FFF116" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified Election Infrastructure Vendors Described</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph id="H75B9A53083FA49F99FD3F0A29B473206" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this part, a ‘qualified election infrastructure vendor’ is any person who provides, supports, or maintains, or who seeks to provide, support, or maintain, election infrastructure on behalf of a State, unit of local government, or election agency (as defined in section 3501 of the Election Security Act) who meets the criteria described in paragraph (2).</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="HAB26FB8D5B9F470EA18A785EBD4514FE" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Criteria</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The criteria described in this paragraph are such criteria as the Chairman, in coordination with the Secretary of Homeland Security, shall establish and publish, and shall include each of the following requirements:</chapeau>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H209A871DCC0648F1A9C321CB7A998901" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The vendor must be owned and controlled by a citizen or permanent resident of the United States.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H79E5338CD56C4D839BE4CD48B5151CC7" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The vendor must disclose to the Chairman and the Secretary, and to the chief State election official of any State to which the vendor provides any goods and services with funds provided under this part, of any sourcing outside the United States for parts of the election infrastructure.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HAE6E8099264A4D8593D0C5B4C8BD847B" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>The vendor agrees to ensure that the election infrastructure will be developed and maintained in a manner that is consistent with the cybersecurity best practices issued by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H7D4622685FED45258D4FA840AACE79DA" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>The vendor agrees to maintain its information technology infrastructure in a manner that is consistent with the cybersecurity best practices issued by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H555A61D2DA4E4B1D80AC086815B20205" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>The vendor agrees to meet the requirements of paragraph (3) with respect to any known or suspected cybersecurity incidents involving any of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H62F27978F03641D2B5D859478663CAB6" class="indent2"><num value="F">“(F) </num><content>The vendor agrees to permit independent security testing by the Commission (in accordance with section 231(a)) and by the Secretary of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE4A6D00BA66B4FB19E5548C2192A6AC1" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Cybersecurity incident reporting requirements</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H196C0DDB0FD44682A3D64C7B242C4CFE" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A vendor meets the requirements of this paragraph if, upon becoming aware of the possibility that an election cybersecurity incident has occurred involving any of the goods and services provided by the vendor pursuant to a grant under this part—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H22EAD8690A7F443EBE928615EE7F6C4A" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the vendor promptly assesses whether or not such an incident occurred, and submits a notification meeting the requirements of subparagraph (B) to the Secretary and the Chairman of the assessment as soon as practicable (but in no case later than 3 days after the vendor first becomes aware of the possibility that the incident occurred);</content></clause>
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<clause id="HDECAA88DDFD24F22A7CDE8A9C26ADBB5" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>if the incident involves goods or services provided to an election agency, the vendor submits a notification meeting the requirements of subparagraph (B) to the agency as soon as practicable (but in no case later than 3 days after the vendor first becomes aware of the possibility that the incident occurred), and cooperates with the agency in providing any other necessary notifications relating to the incident; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H075E15C71B53417290D90797141C9A7E" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the vendor provides all necessary updates to any notification submitted under clause (i) or clause (ii).</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD2825DE463D54A3786F988C38A6F51ED" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contents of notifications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each notification submitted under clause (i) or clause (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall contain the following information with respect to any election cybersecurity incident covered by the notification:</chapeau>
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<clause id="HE838C90066E346FF98B9B26F4787E41F" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>The date, time, and time zone when the election cybersecurity incident began, if known.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB0ACEBD90DCA48099DD3514ABAB38A9C" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>The date, time, and time zone when the election cybersecurity incident was detected.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H8A39F912C0894DEDA33733D13B918467" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>The date, time, and duration of the election cybersecurity incident.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H402AB064BA2746C9B936482D815B848A" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>The circumstances of the election cybersecurity incident, including the specific election infrastructure systems believed to have been accessed and information acquired, if any.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H35641CB787E348F9B9A3A238397F9BED" class="indent3"><num value="v">“(v) </num><content>Any planned and implemented technical measures to respond to and recover from the incident.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HCF149B4094C348918F2FB2C17073D022" class="indent3"><num value="vi">“(vi) </num><content>In the case of any notification which is an update to a prior notification, any additional material information relating to the incident, including technical data, as it becomes available.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section id="H692FE45D45344D38B096BAA460C70477"><num value="298B">“SEC. 298B. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY OF STATES.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">“A State is eligible to receive a grant under this part if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and in such form as the Commission may require, an application containing—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H613BF09F5DF64EEFB5641D53FE8D9528" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>a description of how the State will use the grant to carry out the activities authorized under this part;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HAF89B204814E424C9584651B0F2D668F" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>a certification and assurance that, not later than 5 years after receiving the grant, the State will carry out risk-limiting audits and will carry out voting system security improvements, as described in section 298A; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2C7E29579A37425D82B06CDC1242EF86" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section id="H2438C16241D941419970464655D93771"><num value="298C">“SEC. 298C. </num><heading>REPORTS TO CONGRESS.</heading><content class="block">“Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Commission shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees, including the Committees on Homeland Security, House Administration, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Judiciary, and Rules and Administration of the Senate, on the activities carried out with the funds provided under this part.</content></section>
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<section id="HE7FB889FE0A74EEBB322294E11B6DB67"><num value="298D">“SEC. 298D. </num><heading>AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H8270BC87E31E4485BAB83369F03750CB" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>There are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this part—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H6522F43390B44328B4C4CF120A005597" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>$1,000,000,000 for fiscal year 2019; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H089DD807FAD34A0086601903DEE22D5D" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>$175,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2026.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7A253A7B037B44329F5283356F37B8F6" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Continuing Availability of Amounts</inline>.—</heading><content>Any amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of this section shall remain available until expended.”</content></subsection></section></part></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3001/b" id="HF0178149D9594B5BA03B2DAC06AA87D8" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by section 1906(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following:
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<designator>“<inline class="smallCaps">Part 8</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Grants for Obtaining Compliant Paper Ballot Voting Systems and Carrying Out Voting System Improvements</inline></label>
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<designator>“Sec. 298. </designator>
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<label>Grants for obtaining compliant paper ballot voting systems and carrying out voting system security improvements.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 298A. </designator>
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<label>Voting system security improvements described.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 298B. </designator>
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<label>Eligibility of States.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 298C. </designator>
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<label>Reports to Congress.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 298D. </designator>
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<label>Authorization of appropriations.</label>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002" id="HA2CF5C66B760462DBA5CF7BF3280FA35"><num value="3002">SEC. 3002. </num><heading>COORDINATION OF VOTING SYSTEM SECURITY ACTIVITIES WITH USE OF REQUIREMENTS PAYMENTS AND ELECTION ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENTS UNDER HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT OF 2002.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/a" id="H063E2C80826E40179826BF9271562AC5" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Duties of Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 202 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20922">52 U.S.C. 20922</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>by</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and the security of election infrastructure by</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/b" id="H1CFB3EF1300A40EFBAF9CC991AEB641D" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Membership of Secretary of Homeland Security on Board of Advisors of Election Assistance Commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 214(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20944/a">52 U.S.C. 20944(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/b/1" id="HB8E6E19CE4EC48329B0A4547DD6541EA" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>37 members</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>38 members</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/b/2" id="H851E2B3A098543BE94E5073B1F5FB115" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H0F9E7270E2824D5C8D4F4FFC18DE8FC6" class="indent1"><num value="17">“(17) </num><content>The Secretary of Homeland Security or the Secretary’s designee.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/c" id="HA0C672218AA649518D48F321B0E72A19" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Representative of Department of Homeland Security on Technical Guidelines Development Committee</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 221(c)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20961/c/1">52 U.S.C. 20961(c)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/c/1" id="HD38A8D1782B44125B47EA30DB57EA84C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subparagraph (E) as subparagraph (F); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/c/2" id="H85C86F7459044575BCE1D32C032E3C6A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subparagraph (D) the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H10003E64070046A48B38BA74BE7360CA" styleType="OLC">
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<subparagraph id="H2E0B1CD541FA4A3EBF2DB338B4D7B940" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>A representative of the Department of Homeland Security.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/d" id="HA44EA560C2C54D66A9287C9651BBC80D" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Goals of Periodic Studies of Election Administration Issues; Consultation With Secretary of Homeland Security</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 241(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20981/a">52 U.S.C. 20981(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/d/1" id="HC9A2893F9AED430FB4DEF43346C5F6D2" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Commission shall</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Commission, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security (as appropriate), shall</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/d/2" id="H97C851FB88AC46EAB582C5B3D7F465E6" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (3);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/d/3" id="H8930A0CC5F164911B55D1183EC74F04B" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraph (4) as paragraph (5); and</content></paragraph>
|
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/d/4" id="H1FB4361802C64E54880D8628E773809B" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (3) the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HEAC42371BFF5413FABFA4036D37F5A29" styleType="OLC">
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<paragraph id="H79377F0D0BD84984AD21DD1DC7200A29" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>will be secure against attempts to undermine the integrity of election systems by cyber or other means; and”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e" id="HAFF495DFAF734694B8F1ABFC7DD4DB46" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements Payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e/1" id="H345DCE014C304063A2CC017CB2714C30" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of payments for voting system security improvements</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 251(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21001/b">52 U.S.C. 21001(b)</ref>), as amended by section 1061(a)(2), is further amended by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HBD0B544DC76F4E64BEB8EB04DA6F7796" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting use of payments for voting system security improvements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State may use a requirements payment to carry out any of the following activities:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HB6FAC98FCCEC4CE78E7EC9DB5FC4A292" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Cyber and risk mitigation training.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8F1E7E2BC8B143E180DA45844C61E160" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Providing increased technical support for any information technology infrastructure that the chief State election official deems to be part of the State’s election infrastructure or designates as critical to the operation of the State’s election infrastructure.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD2CF971F218342BEA33771FA64B52C5D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Enhancing the cybersecurity and operations of the information technology infrastructure described in subparagraph (B).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H10192A2357F14203937E758980EDB01B" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>Enhancing the security of voter registration databases.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e/2" id="H8BE4ACB568CA4D5EAFCA8632B755E8DD" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Incorporation of election infrastructure protection in state plans for use of payments</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 254(a)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21004/a/1">52 U.S.C. 21004(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, including the protection of election infrastructure.</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e/3" id="HCA42D8304D694A6DA43B08A0FF42A9C8" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Composition of committee responsible for developing state plan for use of payments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 255 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21005">52 U.S.C. 21005</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e/3/A" id="H4403A6C21F564C8E9F7E531F6ECEB107" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (b) as subsection (c); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/e/3/B" id="H2B4D23E9D34B49A2B04353CFBFD04BA7" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (a) the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="HC70D2B3826574243972B93020AE07FB6" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Geographic Representation</inline>.—</heading><content>The members of the committee shall be a representative group of individuals from the State’s counties, cities, towns, and Indian tribes, and shall represent the needs of rural as well as urban areas of the State, as the case may be.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3002/f" id="HEF1C70342A87497EBCDC29B86C62C8BE" class="indent0"><num value="f">(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Ensuring Protection of Computerized Statewide Voter Registration List</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 303(a)(3) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21083/a/3">52 U.S.C. 21083(a)(3)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, as well as other measures to prevent and deter cybersecurity incidents, as identified by the Commission, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Technical Guidelines Development Committee.</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3003" id="HE0D967AEECAF493AB49812D50056E3FC"><num value="3003">SEC. 3003. </num><heading>INCORPORATION OF DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3003/a" id="HA1313F952D4F4150B9AF579BD47BC1B4" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 901 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21141">52 U.S.C. 21141</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<section id="HE5A910CDAC2E4518BFD5A7C6EE5C85B6"><num value="901">“SEC. 901. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">“In this Act, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H835D8FDEC9414F1789B0995C7D3617DA" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The term ‘<term>cybersecurity incident</term>’ has the meaning given the term ‘<term>incident</term>’ in section 227 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s148">6 U.S.C. 148</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H5AF99132AE9A4CC9B649BE5D77EF39A3" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The term ‘<term>election infrastructure</term>’ has the meaning given such term in section 3501 of the Election Security Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HAAB70E76783C43C5B8662C476513AC2F" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The term ‘<term>State</term>’ means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.”</content></paragraph></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt1/s3003/b" id="H148ED85C06E44916B56534C195BB4868" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> the item relating to section 901 to read as follows:
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2" id="H2F9409FDBCC94B71BAD7D8A09DE8A806"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>GRANTS FOR RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3011" id="H3293FFA5CDF74248B612E781F35B8783"><num value="3011">SEC. 3011. </num><heading>GRANTS TO STATES FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3011/a" id="H3FFD30F7F6894E00AC4A6F508367D862" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Grants</inline>.—</heading><content>Subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21001/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21001 et seq.</ref>), as amended by sections 1906(a) and 3001(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new part:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDAD86D7E9ABC4DB6B18311D5F2EBA59A" styleType="OLC"><part id="H7F31914094354C4BB0DBB8016B182D8A"><num value="9">“PART 9—</num><heading>GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS</heading>
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<section id="H58C0A989AB82488F9A8E8EF1F6B88278"><num value="299">“SEC. 299. </num><heading>GRANTS FOR CONDUCTING RISK-LIMITING AUDITS OF RESULTS OF ELECTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H5DE5F35791224B3E8AEE2D165A970EC3" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Grants</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall make a grant to each eligible State to conduct risk-limiting audits as described in subsection (b) with respect to the regularly scheduled general elections for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding election for Federal office.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HC197A94268704A60A0CED4E568F56CD8" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Risk-limiting Audits Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this part, a ‘risk-limiting audit’ is a post-election process—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H7A0318E0F93247549C6D47E0D5F401E3" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>which is conducted in accordance with rules and procedures established by the chief State election official of the State which meet the requirements of subsection (c); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H79D9CAA8CF244226967DC7C46C730880" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>under which, if the reported outcome of the election is incorrect, there is at least a predetermined percentage chance that the audit will replace the incorrect outcome with the correct outcome as determined by a full, hand-to-eye tabulation of all votes validly cast in that election that ascertains voter intent manually and directly from voter-verifiable paper records.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF7F64E7074D44C508DEB34D1BF601620" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for Rules and Procedures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The rules and procedures established for conducting a risk-limiting audit shall include the following elements:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HCDF1CB90796940A9BECBB6DECF4C2CDF" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>Rules for ensuring the security of ballots and documenting that prescribed procedures were followed.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3494D40471CD49FE8EAE42AE72816FB4" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>Rules and procedures for ensuring the accuracy of ballot manifests produced by election agencies.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HEF4AF673F2C44E468A48323F450B0A93" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>Rules and procedures for governing the format of ballot manifests, cast vote records, and other data involved in the audit.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF64BDE602ABD42AFBF0909CD257B7E3A" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>Methods to ensure that any cast vote records used in the audit are those used by the voting system to tally the election results sent to the chief State election official and made public.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H958F94B73A39442190A7702EF7586D12" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>Procedures for the random selection of ballots to be inspected manually during each audit.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HFA021B266CBA45D395E550715FB7A2FE" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>Rules for the calculations and other methods to be used in the audit and to determine whether and when the audit of an election is complete.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H1588CB87DB60409E97B9EEFF9331C4FE" class="indent1"><num value="7">“(7) </num><content>Procedures and requirements for testing any software used to conduct risk-limiting audits.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF455E37987114C328163E9016AD9D43A" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this part, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HAC4085F77FA44158B8C89888FA402610" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><chapeau>The term ‘<term>ballot manifest</term>’ means a record maintained by each election agency that meets each of the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H9F6690C9F46848F189664FD706387D38" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The record is created without reliance on any part of the voting system used to tabulate votes.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1BF6F5E247634398B802DD5100E43D92" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The record functions as a sampling frame for conducting a risk-limiting audit.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF3BDF043D29F4833A5769A9A9C614CFF" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>The record contains the following information with respect to the ballots cast and counted in the election:</chapeau>
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<clause id="HB5084525C55649D8BFC25FDB61584F54" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>The total number of ballots cast and counted by the agency (including undervotes, overvotes, and other invalid votes).</content></clause>
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<clause id="HBD013DAE92C3442A8C4C4DDE29B6E03E" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>The total number of ballots cast in each election administered by the agency (including undervotes, overvotes, and other invalid votes).</content></clause>
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<clause id="H7C6E6F1205B043BB8D3D3D25F121BCBD" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>A precise description of the manner in which the ballots are physically stored, including the total number of physical groups of ballots, the numbering system for each group, a unique label for each group, and the number of ballots in each such group.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H69111B23042C46558B7311FE3C710624" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The term ‘<term>incorrect outcome</term>’ means an outcome that differs from the outcome that would be determined by a full tabulation of all votes validly cast in the election, determining voter intent manually, directly from voter-verifiable paper records.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H1F71E8746B7B41B1B5FA97792279C458" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The term ‘<term>outcome</term>’ means the winner of an election, whether a candidate or a position.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9D9119DD3F4C4952A634D1509B52FF64" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>The term ‘<term>reported outcome</term>’ means the outcome of an election which is determined according to the canvass and which will become the official, certified outcome unless it is revised by an audit, recount, or other legal process.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section id="H02378791E52D44D1A1F80D940461249E"><num value="299A">“SEC. 299A. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY OF STATES.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">“A State is eligible to receive a grant under this part if the State submits to the Commission, at such time and in such form as the Commission may require, an application containing—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H6F060C55BE854280B9294C31D3D9EAC9" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>a certification that, not later than 5 years after receiving the grant, the State will conduct risk-limiting audits of the results of elections for Federal office held in the State as described in section 299;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HDEBB79CC1E5943C1806A3832627961FF" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>a certification that, not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this section, the chief State election official of the State has established or will establish the rules and procedures for conducting the audits which meet the requirements of section 299(c);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H5D0CFF0FC6FE44EB807F163F21623D2E" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>a certification that the audit shall be completed not later than the date on which the State certifies the results of the election;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3D828D77FA19446489883B56F9367E71" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>a certification that, after completing the audit, the State shall publish a report on the results of the audit, together with such information as necessary to confirm that the audit was conducted properly;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HFCB65EE1FB96427BBEE869E6EFEF4993" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>a certification that, if a risk-limiting audit conducted under this part leads to a full manual tally of an election, State law requires that the State or election agency shall use the results of the full manual tally as the official results of the election; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H7B5622107AFE4B6296FAAA3B9A88F430" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section id="H5C85DEF0D94C4182A8834647CCD99117"><num value="299B">“SEC. 299B. </num><heading>AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.</heading><content class="block">“There are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this part $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2019, to remain available until expended.”</content></section></part></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3011/b" id="HE42AEF8A0F2344E98FA40A69CB5951E4" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act, as amended by sections 1906(b) and 3001(b), is further amended by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end of the items relating to subtitle D of title II the following:
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<designator>“<inline class="smallCaps">Part 9</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Grants for Conducting Risk-Limiting Audits of Results of Elections</inline></label>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3012" id="HDBB8636A06484475944E5B6A94FC93D0"><num value="3012">SEC. 3012. </num><heading>GAO ANALYSIS OF EFFECTS OF AUDITS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3012/a" id="HCFDE29991E6E4CBCA94502F201CE7B6F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Analysis</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the first election for Federal office is held after grants are first awarded to States for conducting risk-limiting under part 9 of subtitle D of title II of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (as added by section 3011) for conducting risk-limiting audits of elections for Federal office, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct an analysis of the extent to which such audits have improved the administration of such elections and the security of election infrastructure in the States receiving such grants.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt2/s3012/b" id="HB9332F4C035E4774B134FC1C1EBFB0A5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit a report on the analysis conducted under subsection (a) to the appropriate congressional committees.</content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stA/pt3" id="H0250F370CFA04AC7BBCD54FC08573C47"><num value="3">PART 3—</num><heading>[RESERVED]</heading></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB" id="HC3B87FEF92404BCFBAD6D46665E6DB31"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Security Measures</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3101" id="HE36D84309B25409A8CC558171863857E"><num value="3101">SEC. 3101. </num><heading>ELECTION INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGNATION.</heading><content class="block">Subparagraph (J) of section 2001(3) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s601/3">6 U.S.C. 601(3)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, including election infrastructure</quotedText>” before the period at the end.</content></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3102" id="H216BF56F69CB4D45B559C592BDB23421"><num value="3102">SEC. 3102. </num><heading>TIMELY THREAT INFORMATION.</heading><content>Subsection (d) of section 201 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s121">6 U.S.C. 121</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HDC9A5267027149E498097612CFDD0B91" class="indent1"><num value="24">“(24) </num><content>To provide timely threat information regarding election infrastructure to the chief State election official of the State with respect to which such information pertains.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">. </inline></content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3103" id="H1DE16353B49641D39C726C087FED7E5A"><num value="3103">SEC. 3103. </num><heading>SECURITY CLEARANCE ASSISTANCE FOR ELECTION OFFICIALS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">In order to promote the timely sharing of information on threats to election infrastructure, the Secretary may—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3103/1" id="HABBEC1620AC04FA984D9D733E79492B1" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>help expedite a security clearance for the chief State election official and other appropriate State personnel involved in the administration of elections, as designated by the chief State election official;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3103/2" id="HB3293A4C12D149A0AAFF8294E6B6A74E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>sponsor a security clearance for the chief State election official and other appropriate State personnel involved in the administration of elections, as designated by the chief State election official; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3103/3" id="H9021AACD5D844BDD9BF8E917E67895EC" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>facilitate the issuance of a temporary clearance to the chief State election official and other appropriate State personnel involved in the administration of elections, as designated by the chief State election official, if the Secretary determines classified information to be timely and relevant to the election infrastructure of the State at issue.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3104" id="H901A56B5A2EC45EEA7A4A382A79F8ACD"><num value="3104">SEC. 3104. </num><heading>SECURITY RISK AND VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3104/a" id="H920012491317436BB928A2B9245DD39D" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (6) of section 2209(c) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s659/c">6 U.S.C. 659(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(including by carrying out a security risk and vulnerability assessment)</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>risk management support</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3104/b" id="HED3163CA142548779282817DC8978553" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prioritization to Enhance Election Security</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3104/b/1" id="HE01CB575FB2C41619F6A689E47BB5988" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after receiving a written request from a chief State election official, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, commence a security risk and vulnerability assessment (pursuant to paragraph (6) of section 227(c) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, as amended by subsection (a)) on election infrastructure in the State at issue.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3104/b/2" id="H9B1B38640615482E910341634E7C048C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notification</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Secretary, upon receipt of a request described in paragraph (1), determines that a security risk and vulnerability assessment cannot be commenced within 90 days, the Secretary shall expeditiously notify the chief State election official who submitted such request.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105" id="H532EBABA8C9D4FD18A9216C169C51C33"><num value="3105">SEC. 3105. </num><heading>ANNUAL REPORTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105/a" id="H9C08619150074A9D84D9A2E01AE6AC05" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports on Assistance and Assessments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually thereafter through 2026, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105/a/1" id="HAC27D38C26C3496EBFAEC7CFCAEC3147" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>efforts to carry out section 203 during the prior year, including specific information on which States were helped, how many officials have been helped in each State, how many security clearances have been sponsored in each State, and how many temporary clearances have been issued in each State; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105/a/2" id="H183DD48B6BC045598DCC337A4F9E9A53" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>efforts to carry out section 205 during the prior year, including specific information on which States were helped, the dates on which the Secretary received a request for a security risk and vulnerability assessment pursuant to such section, the dates on which the Secretary commenced each such request, and the dates on which the Secretary transmitted a notification in accordance with subsection (b)(2) of such section.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105/b" id="H0015505D805A437580A58277383A6E3D" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports on Foreign Threats</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 90 days after the end of each fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 2019), the Secretary and the Director of National Intelligence, in coordination with the heads of appropriate offices of the Federal government, shall submit a joint report to the appropriate congressional committees on foreign threats to elections in the United States, including physical and cybersecurity threats.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stB/s3105/c" id="HD84AA2F22831443A83E6D049804BB954" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Information From States</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of preparing the reports required under this section, the Secretary shall solicit and consider information and comments from States and election agencies, except that the provision of such information and comments by a State or election agency shall be voluntary and at the discretion of the State or agency.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC" id="HE7DEC1F184224568A07247DD7CB5256E"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Enhancing Protections for United States Democratic Institutions</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201" id="HE9E8F6766A694261B181F0B42AC86A79"><num value="3201">SEC. 3201. </num><heading>NATIONAL STRATEGY TO PROTECT UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/a" id="HED8CC12EDCF342FD9A7036395BC2DD60" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Secretary, in consultation with the Chairman, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Education, the Director of National Intelligence, the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and the heads of any other appropriate Federal agencies, shall issue a national strategy to protect against cyber attacks, influence operations, disinformation campaigns, and other activities that could undermine the security and integrity of United States democratic institutions.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b" id="H9F8940C2E739481183F6C070EE510948" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Considerations</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The national strategy required under subsection (a) shall include consideration of the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/1" id="HB09925D946A14396A9E1C1FB8A862B52" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The threat of a foreign state actor, foreign terrorist organization (as designated pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t8/s1189">8 U.S.C. 1189</ref>)), or a domestic actor carrying out a cyber attack, influence operation, disinformation campaign, or other activity aimed at undermining the security and integrity of United States democratic institutions.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/2" id="HE358D684ED554296BB477BF6E4950D27" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The extent to which United States democratic institutions are vulnerable to a cyber attack, influence operation, disinformation campaign, or other activity aimed at undermining the security and integrity of such democratic institutions.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/3" id="H93DAD12A910C400F951EC695F9427167" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Potential consequences, such as an erosion of public trust or an undermining of the rule of law, that could result from a successful cyber attack, influence operation, disinformation campaign, or other activity aimed at undermining the security and integrity of United States democratic institutions.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/4" id="H02C6627484FD48B2AF5688F5488A20F8" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>Lessons learned from other Western governments the institutions of which were subject to a cyber attack, influence operation, disinformation campaign, or other activity aimed at undermining the security and integrity of such institutions, as well as actions that could be taken by the United States Government to bolster collaboration with foreign partners to detect, deter, prevent, and counter such activities.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/5" id="H5950D896596240C7B9FB267B4EF162FB" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>Potential impacts such as an erosion of public trust in democratic institutions as could be associated with a successful cyber breach or other activity negatively-affecting election infrastructure.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/6" id="HA163B42D52074E6AA7DC22E9DF81D3FF" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>Roles and responsibilities of the Secretary, the Chairman, and the heads of other Federal entities and non-Federal entities, including chief State election officials and representatives of multi-state information sharing and analysis center.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/b/7" id="HBF1AABB778794748A92800F057EDDA81" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>Any findings, conclusions, and recommendations to strengthen protections for United States democratic institutions that have been agreed to by a majority of Commission members on the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions, authorized pursuant to section 32002.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/c" id="H8C71C316ECC5436DB68F44B1DAEC8640" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Implementation Plan</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days after the issuance of the national strategy required under subsection (a), the President, acting through the Secretary, in coordination with the Chairman, shall issue an implementation plan for Federal efforts to implement such strategy that includes the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/c/1" id="HE32C501BE1BD4D32A284D23EE77D08B1" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>Strategic objectives and corresponding tasks.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/c/2" id="H3C05665242AA444F9762D0B140726456" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>Projected timelines and costs for the tasks referred to in paragraph (1).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/c/3" id="H849B587845D24E86AC49E17AD028BD3D" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Metrics to evaluate performance of such tasks.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3201/d" id="H7E02E3233D2745B29DEA118BFEE2BCD6" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Classification</inline>.—</heading><content>The national strategy required under subsection (a) shall be in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202" id="HA14CA4BA1B8242809D0B9E2F8977BCDC"><num value="3202">SEC. 3202. </num><heading>NATIONAL COMMISSION TO PROTECT UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/a" id="H87AFBD6E7FD34ECBA672F307E7FD6D1E" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established within the legislative branch the National Commission to Protect United States Democratic Institutions (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Commission”).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/b" id="H00EE1BE29F42438BB4BCDB0EBD3709D3" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Purpose</inline>.—</heading><content>The purpose of the Commission is to counter efforts to undermine democratic institutions within the United States.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c" id="H8D1485237F3C483484E4CFAB85426846" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Composition</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1" id="HC619B562AEB844AAB909F1F79B156904" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Membership</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall be composed of 10 members appointed for the life of the Commission as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/A" id="H3C8ED4E7B8444792B9C7B3DB42D79114" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>One member shall be appointed by the Secretary.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/B" id="HABDC747426BD4EF5AF28A50087CA5EA6" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>One member shall be appointed by the Chairman.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/C" id="HD389010042314A64BE0609AB8CBBDD27" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>2 members shall be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate, in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Administration.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/D" id="H6C3F9718F971484B8C343730A95B4764" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>2 members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate, in consultation with the ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Rules and Administration.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/E" id="H03FFDCF66C0848F5905FE251A70F4869" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>2 members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, the Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, and the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/1/F" id="H557038FBFEA14A579EB25F7EA0B43360" class="indent2"><num value="F">(F) </num><content>2 members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the ranking minority member of the Committee on Homeland Security, the ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary, and the ranking minority member of the Committee on House Administration.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/2" id="HFE92C77210844911997B7FEA480BF31A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualifications</inline>.—</heading><content>Individuals shall be selected for appointment to the Commission solely on the basis of their professional qualifications, achievements, public stature, experience, and expertise in relevant fields, including, but not limited to cybersecurity, national security, and the Constitution of the United States.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/3" id="HB0C7FD4441284ACBADDD941732ADCB18" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No compensation for service</inline>.—</heading><content>Members shall not receive compensation for service on the Commission, but shall receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with <ref href="/us/usc/t5/ch57">chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code</ref>.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/4" id="HA1F7349142234BD5BB05695A3B75527E" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for appointment</inline>.—</heading><content>All members of the Commission shall be appointed no later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/c/5" id="H2998D048433043BD938006FEB94B7821" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Vacancies</inline>.—</heading><content>A vacancy on the Commission shall not affect its powers and shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made. The appointment of the replacement member shall be made not later than 60 days after the date on which the vacancy occurs.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/d" id="HB45E0E6F90F543B3B345D29A5BADD88F" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Chair and Vice Chair</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair from among its members.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/e" id="H00D1D5E7825F48BB95B31C4224EE4F04" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Quorum and Meetings</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/e/1" id="H84F653B523E64EBCBF6ABCCF57EF9D26" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Quorum</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall meet and begin the operations of the Commission not later than 30 days after the date on which all members have been appointed or, if such meeting cannot be mutually agreed upon, on a date designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro Tempore of the Senate. Each subsequent meeting shall occur upon the call of the Chair or a majority of its members. A majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may hold meetings.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/e/2" id="H923E93280E5749D48F898F2AB29F4717" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authority of individuals to act for commission</inline>.—</heading><content>Any member of the Commission may, if authorized by the Commission, take any action that the Commission is authorized to take under this section.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/f" id="H23230F3F6657493B9B605A00F4ECEF3B" class="indent0"><num value="f">(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Powers</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/f/1" id="H0B1D76428A8E4BF8B0D31879416C9C25" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Hearings and evidence</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission (or, on the authority of the Commission, any subcommittee or member thereof) may, for the purpose of carrying out this section, hold hearings and sit and act at such times and places, take such testimony, receive such evidence, and administer such oaths as the Commission considers advisable to carry out its duties.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/f/2" id="HCF91243B3F824CA8BA1811134D2A691C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contracting</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission may, to such extent and in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts, enter into contracts to enable the Commission to discharge its duties under this section.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/g" id="H573E5D7B9609432F892EAF673D3796E6" class="indent0"><num value="g">(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Assistance From Federal Agencies</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/g/1" id="HD102006C5A9E45E8991935E91F2CA2B9" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">General services administration</inline>.—</heading><content>The Administrator of General Services shall provide to the Commission on a reimbursable basis administrative support and other services for the performance of the Commission’s functions.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/g/2" id="HC41277525E3C4A22ACEB628F4D78AD8A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other departments and agencies</inline>.—</heading><content>In addition to the assistance provided under paragraph (1), the Department of Homeland Security, the Election Assistance Commission, and other appropriate departments and agencies of the United States shall provide to the Commission such services, funds, facilities, and staff as they may determine advisable and as may be authorized by law.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/h" id="HC51A90BB8454499C97180BA9F62A35A6" class="indent0"><num value="h">(h) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public Meetings</inline>.—</heading><content>Any public meetings of the Commission shall be conducted in a manner consistent with the protection of information provided to or developed for or by the Commission as required by any applicable statute, regulation, or Executive order.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/i" id="HBEDE4D90CD094729948217B3DADFE104" class="indent0"><num value="i">(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Security Clearances</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/i/1" id="HD5864ED6F7C14986847EE4D3F7BAC25F" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The heads of appropriate departments and agencies of the executive branch shall cooperate with the Commission to expeditiously provide Commission members and staff with appropriate security clearances to the extent possible under applicable procedures and requirements.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/i/2" id="H672CA8F57E124CC38D63DB1359BCA5EE" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Preferences</inline>.—</heading><content>In appointing staff, obtaining detailees, and entering into contracts for the provision of services for the Commission, the Commission shall give preference to individuals otherwise who have active security clearances.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/j" id="HD25F8544FDC744DCAB7F5011F4324D5D" class="indent0"><num value="j">(j) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/j/1" id="H4B78CAD1D82E476E996C3783125EB940" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Interim reports</inline>.—</heading><content>At any time prior to the submission of the final report under paragraph (2), the Commission may submit interim reports to the President and Congress such findings, conclusions, and recommendations to strengthen protections for democratic institutions in the United States as have been agreed to by a majority of the members of the Commission.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/j/2" id="H008F8E2011F148BCBABF0C5C95D08AB7" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Final report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 18 months after the date of the first meeting of the Commission, the Commission shall submit to the President and Congress a final report containing such findings, conclusions, and recommendations to strengthen protections for democratic institutions in the United States as have been agreed to by a majority of the members of the Commission.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/k" id="H498A6AAF000C4895B5F5516A94FDA79D" class="indent0"><num value="k">(k) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Termination</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/k/1" id="H71A2062ACC194A8FB27B35B9BC59CF31" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall terminate upon the expiration of the 60-day period which begins on the date on which the Commission submits the final report required under subsection (j)(2).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stC/s3202/k/2" id="HC47FE4FD9BBD4A8E9C11E6201BE1CC77" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Administrative activities prior to termination</inline>.—</heading><content>During the 60-day period described in paragraph (2), the Commission may carry out such administrative activities as may be required to conclude its work, including providing testimony to committees of Congress concerning the final report and disseminating the final report.</content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD" id="HF2D3E3ADF639492AB01C9E65756901E1"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>Promoting Cybersecurity Through Improvements in Election Administration</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3301" id="HE50490BEABEB4387BFE4C2335491E91E"><num value="3301">SEC. 3301. </num><heading>TESTING OF EXISTING VOTING SYSTEMS TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH ELECTION CYBERSECURITY GUIDELINES AND OTHER GUIDELINES.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3301/a" id="HEA309561AB3A41D39A3CB915FCA59117" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Testing of Existing Voting Systems</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3301/a/1" id="HE5E7EF1C704045BB8F234CF64972BA54" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 231(a) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20971/a">52 U.S.C. 20971(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HD6FCC15B33D34A64BA6DDB715945A198" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Testing to ensure compliance with guidelines</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HFD59E20F1B844C76AB081A422364CD27" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Testing</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 9 months before the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the Commission shall provide for the testing by accredited laboratories under this section of the voting system hardware and software which was certified for use in the most recent such election, on the basis of the most recent voting system guidelines applicable to such hardware or software (including election cybersecurity guidelines) issued under this Act.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HE69B8C063118451AAD3357D2AAF8E497" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Decertification of hardware or software failing to meet guidelines</inline>.—</heading><content>If, on the basis of the testing described in subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that any voting system hardware or software does not meet the most recent guidelines applicable to such hardware or software issued under this Act, the Commission shall decertify such hardware or software.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3301/a/2" id="H7103904CBAB746D89E55159601C657E6" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3301/b" id="H60BAC310C92342B4A82CDA0F4811D033" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Issuance of Cybersecurity Guidelines by Technical Guidelines Development Committee</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 221(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20961/b">52 U.S.C. 20961(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H785B861845D0421CAE4D55F4CC455CA7" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Election cybersecurity guidelines</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, the Development Committee shall issue election cybersecurity guidelines, including standards and best practices for procuring, maintaining, testing, operating, and updating election systems to prevent and deter cybersecurity incidents.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302" id="H54DD32D727644A5AA75DAD024185D7A4"><num value="3302">SEC. 3302. </num><heading>TREATMENT OF ELECTRONIC POLL BOOKS AS PART OF VOTING SYSTEMS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/a" id="HA7F5CC7D03B04D65AFA434EDA63BD1B6" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inclusion in Definition of Voting System</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 301(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/b">52 U.S.C. 21081(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/a/1" id="H7D55276475254319B2986C51CC679614" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>this section</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>this Act</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/a/2" id="HB82BE409990C49DA987A8FC0F931BE5F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (1);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/a/3" id="H0644F77CBFCD4B5A95DFA0689E9AB0D1" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/a/4" id="HC97E7CEFE7564CCF9368B10786FD5CEA" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HD94F5CC0EB434E5E812F3113151C7447" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>any electronic poll book used with respect to the election; and”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/b" id="H0414A232E44345D89BE2481A08CC9010" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definition</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 301 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081">52 U.S.C. 21081</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/b/1" id="H1284DA56864B439A8266AF4FCD87EB46" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/b/2" id="H0EE08415AEEA454EBBE6772D1436760E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (b) the following new subsection:
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<subsection role="definitions" id="H42E092521D314E37A752059118A8A7B6" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Electronic Poll Book Defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this Act, the term ‘<term>electronic poll book</term>’ means the total combination of mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic equipment (including the software, firmware, and documentation required to program, control, and support the equipment) that is used—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H00155EB85ECB4A0E9E6E0855384A0654" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>to retain the list of registered voters at a polling location, or vote center, or other location at which voters cast votes in an election for Federal office; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HBC2DF4BA82A24CE4A56EC29D8A6974AA" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>to identify registered voters who are eligible to vote in an election.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3302/c" id="HE3679EAB4A884C9EA2B72EA2A489ADD5" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 301(e) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/e">52 U.S.C. 21081(e)</ref>), as redesignated by subsection (b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>, or, with respect to any requirements relating to electronic poll books, on and after January 1, 2020.</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3303" id="H01F45513AF5D48A6B90497331C3C6F07"><num value="3303">SEC. 3303. </num><heading>PRE-ELECTION REPORTS ON VOTING SYSTEM USAGE.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3303/a" id="HD672EA416BB74D9EBEDFB5220A037812" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring States to Submit Reports</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/etseq">52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 301 the following new section:
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<section id="H3BBE12AAF8AA4F22979408194FD2F0A6"><num value="301A">“SEC. 301A. </num><heading>PRE-ELECTION REPORTS ON VOTING SYSTEM USAGE.</heading>
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<subsection id="H00FFE3CD42084D0E83A8DA92C246C01B" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring States to Submit Reports</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 120 days before the date of each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the chief State election official of a State shall submit a report to the Commission containing a detailed voting system usage plan for each jurisdiction in the State which will administer the election, including a detailed plan for the usage of electronic poll books and other equipment and components of such system.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H0F33B1875C2541D3BC3894CD4ED845AC" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the regularly scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 2020 and each succeeding regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3303/b" id="HB22CFE69B4C345F497079DA8D36048F5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of contents of such Act <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after the item relating to section 301 the following new item:
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3304" id="H26D9EEA14B6B48CDBAF30467B51276B0"><num value="3304">SEC. 3304. </num><heading>STREAMLINING COLLECTION OF ELECTION INFORMATION.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Section 202 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20922">52 U.S.C. 20922</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3304/1" id="H4A65886BC0B4461A96926148C45AE406" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>The Commission</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(a) <headingText role="subsection" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">In General</headingText>.—The Commission</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stD/s3304/2" id="H39B8EB5076384A21A119C11CC9115CBC" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H0914ADEF8DFC4390A660869C8A9C57DD" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Waiver of Certain Requirements</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t44/ch35/schI">Subchapter I of chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code</ref>, shall not apply to the collection of information for purposes of maintaining the clearinghouse described in paragraph (1) of subsection (a).”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE" id="HC2B5DF3238014A299902ADAAB5D027E6"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>Preventing Election Hacking</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3401" id="HE4B99C7E84C74620A087D310B5D6113C"><num value="3401">SEC. 3401. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402" id="H57BE1A1C9A154EB1A4CB8BB7AA26CDA5"><num value="3402">SEC. 3402. </num><heading>ELECTION SECURITY BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/a" id="H25870B88914B490784F7B6EF1C8D1ED9" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a program to be known as the “Election Security Bug Bounty Program” (hereafter in this subtitle referred to as the “Program”) to improve the cybersecurity of the systems used to administer elections for Federal office by facilitating and encouraging assessments by independent technical experts, in cooperation with State and local election officials and election service providers, to identify and report election cybersecurity vulnerabilities.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/b" id="HF53D49D577044BEE92AE6020AA3C8085" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voluntary Participation by Election Officials and Election Service Providers</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/b/1" id="HD5F07EF190704C54A17F69E2DAEBDBB4" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No requirement to participate in program</inline>.—</heading><content>Participation in the Program shall be entirely voluntary for State and local election officials and election service providers.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/b/2" id="H6380A1971D42428BB0220FC513533766" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Encouraging participation and input from election officials</inline>.—</heading><content>In developing the Program, the Secretary shall solicit input from, and encourage participation by, State and local election officials.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c" id="HE97DEFC2FA1F4C848AA97B8C8AABB374" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Activities Funded</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In establishing and carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/1" id="H17BDFB4C8D3C4E858F768DCD7F5FE065" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>establish a process for State and local election officials and election service providers to voluntarily participate in the Program;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/2" id="H10F8F053E34549048C71DC1F40B0C880" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>designate appropriate information systems to be included in the Program;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/3" id="HC503710F08E94F30B54B87483AE26E5F" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>provide compensation to eligible individuals, organizations, and companies for reports of previously unidentified security vulnerabilities within the information systems designated under subparagraph (A) and establish criteria for individuals, organizations, and companies to be considered eligible for such compensation in compliance with Federal laws;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/4" id="H33B912E8040445B39145B083F43334E0" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>consult with the Attorney General on how to ensure that approved individuals, organizations, or companies that comply with the requirements of the Program are protected from prosecution under <ref href="/us/usc/t18/s1030">section 1030 of title 18, United States Code</ref>, and similar provisions of law, and from liability under civil actions for specific activities authorized under the Program;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/5" id="H35A140198B5741BA98BED7E3E5B0D95A" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>consult with the Secretary of Defense and the heads of other departments and agencies that have implemented programs to provide compensation for reports of previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in information systems, regarding lessons that may be applied from such programs;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/6" id="H9DA69FE3601E4924955F2CF5B256AC40" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>develop an expeditious process by which an individual, organization, or company can register with the Department, submit to a background check as determined by the Department, and receive a determination as to eligibility for participation in the Program; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/c/7" id="H814836CE66D3498EB8640E3567F86EE2" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>engage qualified interested persons, including representatives of private entities, about the structure of the Program and, to the extent practicable, establish a recurring competition for independent technical experts to assess election systems for the purpose of identifying and reporting election cybersecurity vulnerabilities;</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3402/d" id="H4BB7EA4ACE42435AA2E7B87B05A60DE5" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Service Providers</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary may award competitive contracts as necessary to manage the Program.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403" id="H41DF6D2B368641F4AB0BF446F331EC3F"><num value="3403">SEC. 3403. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">In this subtitle, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/1" id="HAFE2A67DE89E4D7EBFF1FAE77BE9707F" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The terms “<term>election</term>” and “<term>Federal office</term>” have the meanings given such terms in section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101">52 U.S.C. 30101</ref>).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/2" id="H13F9477540364811A22E9B90EFB78A72" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The term “<term>election cybersecurity vulnerability</term>” means any security vulnerability (as defined in section 102 of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 (<ref href="/us/usc/t6/s1501">6 U.S.C. 1501</ref>)) that affects an election system.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/3" id="HA7C67F2D77444F0BAD4BC1C0F7DD549A" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The term “<term>election service provider</term>” means any person providing, supporting, or maintaining an election system on behalf of a State or local election official, such as a contractor or vendor.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/4" id="H6AC6D75C56724F388BB13FF7920D2C2E" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The term “<term>election system</term>” means any information system (as defined in <ref href="/us/usc/t44/s3502">section 3502 of title 44, United States Code</ref>) which is part of an election infrastructure.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/5" id="HD30BB8E26CE04001842EB0880E740598" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of Homeland Security, or, upon designation by the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security of the Department of Homeland Security, or a Senate-confirmed official that reports to the Director.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/6" id="H28DC0A132149466F951EBB252DD3922A" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>The term “<term>State</term>” means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stE/s3403/7" id="H77273EDE4C0D4655BDE8C81EFDBFB7B1" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>The term “<term>voting system</term>” has the meaning given such term in section 301(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21081/b">52 U.S.C. 21081(b)</ref>).</content></paragraph></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF" id="H32AD6611C0C84132ACA7A562C609248F"><num value="F">Subtitle F—</num><heading>Miscellaneous Provisions</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501" id="HE275763513FC476F91D02D2BD7DA1EF6"><num value="3501">SEC. 3501. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Except as provided in section 3404, in this title, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/1" id="H4E454082C0EB43CD87AB25B0CBBC0678" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The term “<term>Chairman</term>” means the chair of the Election Assistance Commission.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/2" id="H24A276BCF4DE40FDA76E2C515E8C5EC4" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The term “<term>appropriate congressional committees</term>” means the Committees on Homeland Security and House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Rules and Administration of the Senate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/3" id="H8815D2457C0D4AADA8629B27EDA934B3" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The term “<term>chief State election official</term>” means, with respect to a State, the individual designated by the State under section 10 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s20509">52 U.S.C. 20509</ref>) to be responsible for coordination of the State’s responsibilities under such Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/4" id="H26A76BBB696843139FE482A83878A393" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>The term “<term>Commission</term>” means the Election Assistance Commission.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/5" id="HFA59807B8A7340CD8D0354002AD20E99" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>The term “<term>democratic institutions</term>” means the diverse range of institutions that are essential to ensuring an independent judiciary, free and fair elections, and rule of law.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/6" id="H1A5321C5D7F44A9A8C06658022A2EA9F" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>The term “<term>election agency</term>” means any component of a State, or any component of a unit of local government in a State, which is responsible for the administration of elections for Federal office in the State.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/7" id="H345C930291344C678630E6C4BA1F071D" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>The term “<term>election infrastructure</term>” means storage facilities, polling places, and centralized vote tabulation locations used to support the administration of elections for public office, as well as related information and communications technology, including voter registration databases, voting machines, electronic mail and other communications systems (including electronic mail and other systems of vendors who have entered into contracts with election agencies to support the administration of elections, manage the election process, and report and display election results), and other systems used to manage the election process and to report and display election results on behalf of an election agency.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/8" id="H1435990114934C8281103D740AA403DE" class="indent1"><num value="8">(8) </num><content>The term “<term>Secretary</term>” means the Secretary of Homeland Security.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3501/9" id="HC932ABC146514B388A77328F9C5B8060" class="indent1"><num value="9">(9) </num><content>The term “<term>State</term>” has the meaning given such term in section 901 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s21141">52 U.S.C. 21141</ref>).</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stF/s3502" id="H5DCA0DB420D54F2EB4934CB6327C1741"><num value="3502">SEC. 3502. </num><heading>INITIAL REPORT ON ADEQUACY OF RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.</heading><content class="block">Not later than 120 days after enactment of this Act, the Chairman and the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress, including the Committees on Homeland Security and House Administration of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, analyzing the adequacy of the funding, resources, and personnel available to carry out this title and the amendments made by this title.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stG" id="H07B1E3CB6F98430FAF8107C47BAB7AE9"><num value="G">Subtitle G—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
|
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dA/tIII/stG/s3601" id="H5614F47683AB481EA3D72994129C3328"><num value="3601">SEC. 3601. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title></division>
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||
<division identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB" id="H5146D2A5BFEE4F24876DB1D8FD10AEDF"><num value="B">DIVISION B—</num><heading>CAMPAIGN FINANCE</heading>
|
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV" id="H633D25F546CF4EFB8B480C3D90475FB4"><num value="IV">TITLE IV—</num><heading class="inline">CAMPAIGN FINANCE TRANSPARENCY</heading>
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<toc idref="H633D25F546CF4EFB8B480C3D90475FB4">
|
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<referenceItem idref="H311F788B7182476784131238BB12BD00" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Findings Relating to Illicit Money Undermining Our Democracy</label>
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</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H2EC0B4808BDC4285B135AA8075E3EFC6" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 4001. </designator>
|
||
<label>Findings relating to illicit money undermining our democracy.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HFBDD875EA34842F98869E53E7C3F38ED" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>DISCLOSE Act</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="H004DF051A431494699C05B55660CE4F0" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 4100. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H9DCD95EE28C442AE8B8BF7B6327B6AA9" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Regulation of Certain Political Spending</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H49ACBDE1F96140C4A649D6F499ECEE23" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4101. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of ban on contributions and expenditures by foreign nationals to domestic corporations, limited liability corporations, and partnerships that are foreign-controlled, foreign-influenced, and foreign-owned.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H928ADB2ED0FA4745919FD79029B0D1A4" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4102. </designator>
|
||
<label>Clarification of application of foreign money ban to certain disbursements and activities.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HD23568BC321B4883B7D162B3F3556A08" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Reporting of Campaign-Related Disbursements</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H8EADFC7553124B4CAB7D77B5D2C7EEBA" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4111. </designator>
|
||
<label>Reporting of campaign-related disbursements.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC49A1DD21C6E47479FAED42DC27F3443" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4112. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of foreign money ban to disbursements for campaign-related disbursements consisting of covered transfers.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HB8D4026E67404A85888279708F3FF970" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4113. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H477174D254C444C69AC50BC46AD919D1" role="part">
|
||
<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Other Administrative Reforms</inline></label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HFC9F98F128AF45EEB0344D6851D58DC1" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4121. </designator>
|
||
<label>Petition for certiorari.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HFBD71907892745FC81A9935E023B838B" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4122. </designator>
|
||
<label>Judicial review of actions related to campaign finance laws.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H2CA0429E6C25415E8D920682489F3304" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Honest Ads</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H2E7C2A4020464A52BE814D8EC1664381" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4201. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H9D290F3211EF4759B6C00A3B8407EE5E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Purpose.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HDD199EC299FF45EE80BBA62EBC36DABE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4203. </designator>
|
||
<label>Findings.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE6D690712E414C9CBD4EBD90F4ED576C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4204. </designator>
|
||
<label>Sense of Congress.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HAF9C9CDB11154439949E69F9728FB914" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4205. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion of definition of public communication.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HCC524FA713A841F5B54F37FDBB83CF4C" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4206. </designator>
|
||
<label>Expansion of definition of electioneering communication.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HBEBA901D1CE84388B3090C30E34CE7D6" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4207. </designator>
|
||
<label>Application of disclaimer statements to online communications.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HE6A2BA7189BD4E5E8B6931AA7880B1D0" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4208. </designator>
|
||
<label>Political record requirements for online platforms.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC5295BEEF7AF45B38D6186616389E8BC" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4209. </designator>
|
||
<label>Preventing contributions, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements for electioneering communications by foreign nationals in the form of online advertising.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HB42A9A7BB0D243B793D38F2993E3913F" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Stand By Every Ad</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H2D42A24113024762BDE6A78F804BFD38" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4301. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HC3F5CEBA96824D0C8A1531BF92D7E4C7" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Stand By Every Ad.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H830B3F3EA0044C6D85CB4D8735EEAECF" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4303. </designator>
|
||
<label>Disclaimer requirements for communications made through prerecorded telephone calls.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HD54E5EF632D744FC8B63E66C61B8219F" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4304. </designator>
|
||
<label>No expansion of persons subject to disclaimer requirements on Internet communications.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HB0AE7B8F84D043179ED5D676A9397CCE" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4305. </designator>
|
||
<label>Effective date.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HBE3FCDF2ABE84D74B722E07EFB3458EC" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H27C86267E6DE4FAB84F2101AD2B7D500" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle F—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HA6075379C1394B9FBFF74BE82CBBCFFB" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle G—</designator><label>[Reserved]</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H3F5F1DDCE9EB4D11B5B50A1D9DB88741" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle H—</designator><label>Limitation and Disclosure Requirements for Presidential Inaugural Committees</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H28285817F7CE4145A4EC6435B469645E" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4701. </designator>
|
||
<label>Short title.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H94D3C772514D499F958E5FE6F7805DE9" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4702. </designator>
|
||
<label>Limitations and disclosure of certain donations to, and disbursements by, Inaugural Committees.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="HEBA2C0FA026E4E6AA23DB7440EC80691" role="subtitle">
|
||
<designator>Subtitle I—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H865DDC6928B348248929133278B83B14" role="section">
|
||
<designator>Sec. 4801. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA" id="H311F788B7182476784131238BB12BD00"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Findings Relating to Illicit Money Undermining Our Democracy</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001" id="H2EC0B4808BDC4285B135AA8075E3EFC6"><num value="4001">SEC. 4001. </num><heading>FINDINGS RELATING TO ILLICIT MONEY UNDERMINING OUR DEMOCRACY.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau class="indent0">Congress finds the following:</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001/1" id="HB7EDBA527DEE4764B8B193C7CCA7D032" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>Criminals, terrorists, and corrupt government officials frequently abuse anonymously held Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), also known as “<term>shell companies,</term>” to hide, move, and launder the dirty money derived from illicit activities such as trafficking, bribery, exploitation, and embezzlement. Ownership and control of the finances that run through shell companies are obscured to regulators and law enforcement because little information is required and collected when establishing these entities.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001/2" id="HA4BAE772D11F43019AF0EDB03DDEA5D9" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The public release of the “Panama Papers” in 2016 and the “Paradise Papers” in 2017 revealed that these shell companies often purchase and sell United States real estate. United States anti-money laundering laws do not apply to cash transactions involving real estate effectively concealing the beneficiaries and transactions from regulators and law enforcement.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001/3" id="HC96D4C1EAF6446E8A92523987F70AE41" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Congress should curb the use of anonymous shell companies for illicit purposes by requiring United States companies to disclose their beneficial owners, strengthening anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance laws.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001/4" id="HD4B64E0187DC481B9BA2D0F5D3D31CD3" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>Congress should examine the money laundering and terrorist financing risks in the real estate market, including the role of anonymous parties, and review legislation to address any vulnerabilities identified in this sector.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stA/s4001/5" id="H7E848AD58D3648AEB666DD741413E813" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>Congress should examine the methods by which corruption flourishes and the means to detect and deter the financial misconduct that fuels this driver of global instability. Congress should monitor government efforts to enforce United States anti-corruption laws and regulations.</content></paragraph></section></subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB" id="HFBDD875EA34842F98869E53E7C3F38ED"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>DISCLOSE Act</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/s4100" id="H004DF051A431494699C05B55660CE4F0"><num value="4100">SEC. 4100. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act of 2019</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">DISCLOSE Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1" id="H9DCD95EE28C442AE8B8BF7B6327B6AA9"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>REGULATION OF CERTAIN POLITICAL SPENDING</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101" id="H49ACBDE1F96140C4A649D6F499ECEE23"><num value="4101">SEC. 4101. </num><heading>APPLICATION OF BAN ON CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES BY FOREIGN NATIONALS TO DOMESTIC CORPORATIONS, LIMITED LIABILITY CORPORATIONS, AND PARTNERSHIPS THAT ARE FOREIGN-CONTROLLED, FOREIGN-INFLUENCED, AND FOREIGN-OWNED.</heading>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a" id="HD15900AC4D134F89AE637E9B6FD773B7" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application of Ban</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a/1" id="HE5A0BD14262B4BF1ACB26713E935B527" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 319(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121/b">52 U.S.C. 30121(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a/1/A" id="H4C2566FC6BD74496A81848259155ABD8" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (1);</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a/1/B" id="H50922AE745E1474AA373ED677FB13261" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (2) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; or</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a/1/C" id="H716D38507BF84DB58F2743506FD93A79" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H51FDB08FFB664C51962A13D8A1814AF0" styleType="OLC">
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||
<paragraph id="HF2F7C964F5794EBCA866EAE4FF51A27E" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><chapeau>except as provided under subsection (c), any corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership which is not a foreign national described in paragraph (1) and—</chapeau>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HBE1F11B296F14A0499728D40B1F210D3" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>in which a foreign national described in paragraph (1) or (2) directly or indirectly owns or controls—</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="H73B15EB9E23E452687588DB1D8C8DEDB" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>5 percent or more of the voting shares, if the foreign national is a foreign country, a foreign government official, or a corporation principally owned or controlled by a foreign country or foreign government official; or</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HD2A31A5400CC4C489589BBFF3FA27808" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>20 percent or more of the voting shares, if the foreign national is not described in clause (i);</content></clause></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HF162E48FB07C447CA7A86EE20A55E2B8" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in which two or more foreign nationals described in paragraph (1) or (2), each of whom owns or controls at least 5 percent of the voting shares, directly or indirectly own or control 50 percent or more of the voting shares;</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HA11F1888ED674348BD646CFB0BA1B17D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>over which one or more foreign nationals described in paragraph (1) or (2) has the power to direct, dictate, or control the decisionmaking process of the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership with respect to its interests in the United States; or</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HD77825C09B30492690040461DE0E5EC9" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><chapeau>over which one or more foreign nationals described in paragraph (1) or (2) has the power to direct, dictate, or control the decisionmaking process of the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership with respect to activities in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, including—</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="H8BAAA6EDB1F34D48961CDB19AC1105E1" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the making of a contribution, donation, expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 304(f)(3)); or</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HD3E9D9E68EF34BB0A7EBE2BDBFC20D01" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the administration of a political committee established or maintained by the corporation.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/a/2" id="H01EDC88E86214325864881FB4DBE7D36" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Activities of corporate pacs of domestic subsidiaries</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 319 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121">52 U.S.C. 30121</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H60CD82736E9441039F3955A0D386CA73" styleType="OLC">
|
||
<subsection id="H6057F8B8FB894449B51C93412108FA9F" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Activities of Corporate PACs of Domestic Subsidiaries</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding subsection (a), a foreign national described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of subsection (b)(3) which is a domestic corporation whose principal place of business is within the United States may establish, administer and solicit contributions to a separate segregated fund pursuant to section 316(b)(2)(C) so long as—</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph id="H0BA7549BDBD2445EADDDDE67EE2F3FD7" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the foreign national parent corporation of such domestic corporation does not directly or indirectly finance the establishment, administration, or solicitation activities of the fund; and</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H6201F795D02D4AB8B1341861C6651B23" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>the fund is in compliance with complies with the requirements of section 316(b)(8).”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/b" id="H4385B99044654B40B642EB40DA5BE32E" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification of Compliance</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 319 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121">52 U.S.C. 30121</ref>), as amended by subsection (a)(2), is further amended by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
|
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H6797B3C67AC34DE4BC14B802C94B1F48" styleType="OLC">
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||
<subsection id="H8BA9696D4C164774AD9AF6AC42BC1A2B" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Certification of Compliance Required Prior To Carrying Out Activity</inline>.—</heading><content>Prior to the making in connection with an election for Federal office of any contribution, donation, expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication by a corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership during a year, the chief executive officer of the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership (or, if the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership does not have a chief executive officer, the highest ranking official of the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership), shall file a certification with the Commission, under penalty of perjury, that the corporation, limited liability corporation, or partnership is not prohibited from carrying out such activity under subsection (b)(3), unless the chief executive officer has previously filed such a certification during that calendar year.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4101/c" id="HCE78074E103A4B55895C4FB99E7EEC67" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect upon the expiration of the 180-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act, and shall take effect without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated regulations to carry out such amendments.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4102" id="H928ADB2ED0FA4745919FD79029B0D1A4"><num value="4102">SEC. 4102. </num><heading>CLARIFICATION OF APPLICATION OF FOREIGN MONEY BAN TO CERTAIN DISBURSEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4102/a" id="HA0A6BC0744B941D7B2741926FFB14D3B" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application to Disbursements to Super PACs</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 319(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121/a/1/A">52 U.S.C. 30121(a)(1)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the semicolon and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>, including any disbursement to a political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of this Act (or any disbursement to or on behalf of any account of a political committee which is established for the purpose of accepting such donations or contributions);</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt1/s4102/b" id="H87E0313244754376B0A5D8BEC847939A" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conditions Under Which Corporate PACs May Make Contributions and Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 316(b) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30118/b">52 U.S.C. 30118(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H3E21733E6A6E4B27861E09B28315E2DC" class="indent0"><num value="8">“(8) </num><chapeau>A separate segregated fund established by a corporation may not make a contribution or expenditure during a year unless the fund has certified to the Commission the following during the year:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HED382B4D94634A27B9C9F499C9F7C305" class="indent1"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Each individual who manages the fund, and who is responsible for exercising decisionmaking authority for the fund, is a citizen of the United States or is lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H49BBB1B7B85C44A6982BA2A600216CC1" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>No foreign national under section 319 participates in any way in the decisionmaking processes of the fund with regard to contributions or expenditures under this Act.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H7BF197414EB249F5A90F4EC5A963BF61" class="indent1"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>The fund does not solicit or accept recommendations from any foreign national under section 319 with respect to the contributions or expenditures made by the fund.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H48B824A182504828913D096606CE2BDE" class="indent1"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>Any member of the board of directors of the corporation who is a foreign national under section 319 abstains from voting on matters concerning the fund or its activities.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2" id="HD23568BC321B4883B7D162B3F3556A08"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>REPORTING OF CAMPAIGN-RELATED DISBURSEMENTS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111" id="H8EADFC7553124B4CAB7D77B5D2C7EEBA"><num value="4111">SEC. 4111. </num><heading>REPORTING OF CAMPAIGN-RELATED DISBURSEMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/a" id="H93533C99C5964099A7452F6202FD84EF" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure Requirements for Corporations, Labor Organizations, and Certain Other Entities</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/a/1" id="HC001E78CF7094EAAA396A6FF533E987F" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 324 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30126">52 U.S.C. 30126</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<section id="H547592A0EAA440688C75C7BF82298FB1"><num value="324">“SEC. 324. </num><heading>DISCLOSURE OF CAMPAIGN-RELATED DISBURSEMENTS BY COVERED ORGANIZATIONS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H6B10961C8D064236B29FF438808AD247" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure Statement</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB6E59AC251EC4A63BD4BBD2A149B8B65" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Any covered organization that makes campaign-related disbursements aggregating more than $10,000 in an election reporting cycle shall, not later than 24 hours after each disclosure date, file a statement with the Commission made under penalty of perjury that contains the information described in paragraph (2)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H62A3DA2302C14D8494916356DB9D59CD" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>in the case of the first statement filed under this subsection, for the period beginning on the first day of the election reporting cycle (or, if earlier, the period beginning one year before the first such disclosure date) and ending on the first such disclosure date; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H504541F2E2314B20B6BA7863AA06091A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in the case of any subsequent statement filed under this subsection, for the period beginning on the previous disclosure date and ending on such disclosure date.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H0ADFF45F656C480989862B8520B11D17" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Information described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The information described in this paragraph is as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HC3ACDFDC08B7406D8B6BD3FA3F9130EB" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>The name of the covered organization and the principal place of business of such organization and, in the case of a covered organization that is a corporation (other than a business concern that is an issuer of a class of securities registered under section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s78l">15 U.S.C. 78l</ref>) or that is required to file reports under section 15(d) of that Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t15/s78o/d">15 U.S.C. 78o(d)</ref>)) or an entity described in subsection (e)(2), a list of the beneficial owners (as defined in paragraph (4)(A)) of the entity that—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HB91FCB9189764893A0479A6082224619" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>identifies each beneficial owner by name and current residential or business street address; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HE269C1C6E2FA4C2F818926A44474C837" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>if any beneficial owner exercises control over the entity through another legal entity, such as a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or trust, identifies each such other legal entity and each such beneficial owner who will use that other entity to exercise control over the entity.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6E3E5632298F4E3282E6EEDBB47A5D71" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The amount of each campaign-related disbursement made by such organization during the period covered by the statement of more than $1,000, and the name and address of the person to whom the disbursement was made.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3C9851ADEF1B485384803A4E6D5C0B94" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>In the case of a campaign-related disbursement that is not a covered transfer, the election to which the campaign-related disbursement pertains and if the disbursement is made for a public communication, the name of any candidate identified in such communication and whether such communication is in support of or in opposition to a candidate.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6C502F3458AC43C6904A2EA6AB722CC8" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>A certification by the chief executive officer or person who is the head of the covered organization that the campaign-related disbursement is not made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with or at the request or suggestion of a candidate, authorized committee, or agent of a candidate, political party, or agent of a political party.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5B42690EA92E466E8B9CE858B242F7A5" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E)</num><clause id="H213621A8C08A42E0ABA3F279D1F4EBD1" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><chapeau>If the covered organization makes campaign-related disbursements using exclusively funds in a segregated bank account consisting of funds that were paid directly to such account by persons other than the covered organization that controls the account, for each such payment to the account—</chapeau>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H419D19D836064DF3BB197E5FD722A1BA" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>the name and address of each person who made such payment during the period covered by the statement;</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H734B9523B90F4C2C8F3B38D189C32B53" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>the date and amount of such payment; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDFE1187C0E1B40BA9AEEFA02C252B88A" class="indent4"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>the aggregate amount of all such payments made by the person during the period beginning on the first day of the election reporting cycle (or, if earlier, the period beginning one year before the disclosure date) and ending on the disclosure date,</content></subclause></clause>
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<continuation class="indent0" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" role="subparagraph">but only if such payment was made by a person who made payments to the account in an aggregate amount of $10,000 or more during the period beginning on the first day of the election reporting cycle (or, if earlier, the period beginning one year before the disclosure date) and ending on the disclosure date.</continuation>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H525EAE7CD8154BD09534F88FDBA465B7" class="indent2"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>In any calendar year after 2020, section 315(c)(1)(B) shall apply to the amount described in clause (i) in the same manner as such section applies to the limitations established under subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(3), and (h) of such section, except that for purposes of applying such section to the amounts described in subsection (b), the ‘base period’ shall be 2020.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF16E2A52B634426299E3E34411592546" class="indent2"><num value="F">“(F)</num><clause id="H042549D8B7D24F02A89B5C82DA7600EE" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><chapeau>If the covered organization makes campaign-related disbursements using funds other than funds in a segregated bank account described in subparagraph (E), for each payment to the covered organization—</chapeau>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H4E966E7037F349128E94289E5FA737C6" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>the name and address of each person who made such payment during the period covered by the statement;</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H4B95BE00E56144FBA48DB5B0BA31B8DF" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>the date and amount of such payment; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H0AA902F5ACF24C569EDB54390469D7B9" class="indent4"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>the aggregate amount of all such payments made by the person during the period beginning on the first day of the election reporting cycle (or, if earlier, the period beginning one year before the disclosure date) and ending on the disclosure date,</content></subclause></clause>
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<continuation class="indent0" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" role="subparagraph">but only if such payment was made by a person who made payments to the covered organization in an aggregate amount of $10,000 or more during the period beginning on the first day of the election reporting cycle (or, if earlier, the period beginning one year before the disclosure date) and ending on the disclosure date.</continuation>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HBD160EECE4394D0DB93C936477AD3C8C" class="indent2"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>In any calendar year after 2020, section 315(c)(1)(B) shall apply to the amount described in clause (i) in the same manner as such section applies to the limitations established under subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(3), and (h) of such section, except that for purposes of applying such section to the amounts described in subsection (b), the ‘base period’ shall be 2020.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H26FCF80511624DBCB59413950C421C4C" class="indent2"><num value="G">“(G) </num><content>Such other information as required in rules established by the Commission to promote the purposes of this section.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE9125DF83A80462FA770CCF3180E2588" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HE504A7047F05427F8096543A1F571D1F" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amounts received in ordinary course of business</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirement to include in a statement filed under paragraph (1) the information described in paragraph (2) shall not apply to amounts received by the covered organization in commercial transactions in the ordinary course of any trade or business conducted by the covered organization or in the form of investments (other than investments by the principal shareholder in a limited liability corporation) in the covered organization. For purposes of this subparagraph, amounts received by a covered organization as remittances from an employee to the employee’s collective bargaining representative shall be treated as amounts received in commercial transactions in the ordinary course of the business conducted by the covered organization.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H618E3983637E412BB51493536EEE8EE2" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Donor restriction on use of funds</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The requirement to include in a statement submitted under paragraph (1) the information described in subparagraph (F) of paragraph (2) shall not apply if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HD4BC7AEDD0CC4124BCF58C650B68D98F" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the person described in such subparagraph prohibited, in writing, the use of the payment made by such person for campaign-related disbursements; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HFDA221D46B34423F81C63C95C4949D2B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the covered organization agreed to follow the prohibition and deposited the payment in an account which is segregated from any account used to make campaign-related disbursements.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H47DD44971EE54CB78C03B5C94DFD015E" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Threat of harassment or reprisal</inline>.—</heading><content>The requirement to include any information relating to the name or address of any person (other than a candidate) in a statement submitted under paragraph (1) shall not apply if the inclusion of the information would subject the person to serious threats, harassment, or reprisals.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HBF93FE6C1DA94BC3B3141801F9B1624C" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this section:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H6EA69964CE774FC1B5BE7CB149D60CE5" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Beneficial owner defined</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause role="definitions" id="H3D07F8DE604D4315B1EF615484341B38" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in clause (ii), the term ‘<term>beneficial owner</term>’ means, with respect to any entity, a natural person who, directly or indirectly—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HFB4E847D7A284A9AB116D82489AB092F" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>exercises substantial control over an entity through ownership, voting rights, agreement, or otherwise; or</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H9ED010DFB5734CD0A43B29D2322C7281" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>has a substantial interest in or receives substantial economic benefits from the assets of an entity.</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause role="definitions" id="HD24684A74A444E9AB344DD76EA68C8C9" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>beneficial owner</term>’ shall not include—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="H3B5E9A1F0D9E454FAA18D3DEF738EA64" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>a minor child;</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H275447A107C74C8882983BCC8F77B1F6" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>a person acting as a nominee, intermediary, custodian, or agent on behalf of another person;</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HBCDE542BD333492CA3A7B66E85BB10E7" class="indent4"><num value="III">“(III) </num><content>a person acting solely as an employee of an entity and whose control over or economic benefits from the entity derives solely from the employment status of the person;</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H091FDB6CACAE4A45A2054AF255EE7121" class="indent4"><num value="IV">“(IV) </num><content>a person whose only interest in an entity is through a right of inheritance, unless the person also meets the requirements of clause (i); or</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HBB211BDE06E548B1B1871B48F9740295" class="indent4"><num value="V">“(V) </num><content>a creditor of an entity, unless the creditor also meets the requirements of clause (i).</content></subclause></clause>
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<clause id="H1FC237949E8B47868E6157987A39A4C0" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Anti-abuse rule</inline>.—</heading><content>The exceptions under clause (ii) shall not apply if used for the purpose of evading, circumventing, or abusing the provisions of clause (i) or paragraph (2)(A).</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="HD31CC5D674D4431A970A1CF601B6B54C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure date</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>disclosure date</term>’ means—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H22FD74563DB34E3794743456EF511D4E" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the first date during any election reporting cycle by which a person has made campaign-related disbursements aggregating more than $10,000; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H294D4937AE88450E9ED9683AF9CEA5FF" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>any other date during such election reporting cycle by which a person has made campaign-related disbursements aggregating more than $10,000 since the most recent disclosure date for such election reporting cycle.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="H672CC6B84E494CF58917466008342740" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Election reporting cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>election reporting cycle</term>’ means the 2-year period beginning on the date of the most recent general election for Federal office.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="H163526722B1A4E098F02FD49AC5CF8E1" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payment</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>payment</term>’ includes any contribution, donation, transfer, payment of dues, or other payment.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H9A647521099543F38546F893DD01F28A" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordination With Other Provisions</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HD5B7509AC3EA4299AFC7B4D16BA555DB" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other reports filed with the commission</inline>.—</heading><content>Information included in a statement filed under this section may be excluded from statements and reports filed under section 304.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HC183A270ECC94EA18021FF3D79F4B5B9" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment as separate segregated fund</inline>.—</heading><content>A segregated bank account referred to in subsection (a)(2)(E) may be treated as a separate segregated fund for purposes of section 527(f)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H50BFC9D07B5D459BA000049B66C12D32" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Filing</inline>.—</heading><content>Statements required to be filed under subsection (a) shall be subject to the requirements of section 304(d) to the same extent and in the same manner as if such reports had been required under subsection (c) or (g) of section 304.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HDC727F8601BD4DB0A9992F89750E8B4B" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Campaign-Related Disbursement Defined</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H00A384223E4C41359CD30E095300BF33" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section, the term ‘<term>campaign-related disbursement</term>’ means a disbursement by a covered organization for any of the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HD0F9FD0F44744CCF931BB5ADDD62C74E" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>An independent expenditure which expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate for election for Federal office, or is the functional equivalent of express advocacy because, when taken as a whole, it can be interpreted by a reasonable person only as advocating the election or defeat of a candidate for election for Federal office.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC2DB5A381F2C41358B1B6DCCB00B35D9" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Any public communication which refers to a clearly identified candidate for election for Federal office and which promotes or supports the election of a candidate for that office, or attacks or opposes the election of a candidate for that office, without regard to whether the communication expressly advocates a vote for or against a candidate for that office.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8F6C26EEA45F444BA93CF165EE95B1BD" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>An electioneering communication, as defined in section 304(f)(3).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H85B0141CDA844DF38B8A5F563FCAF9B0" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>A covered transfer.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB7C4603D9E444EB78B7139D98B081199" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Intent not required</inline>.—</heading><content>A disbursement for an item described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of paragraph (1) shall be treated as a campaign-related disbursement regardless of the intent of the person making the disbursement.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" id="HAA1D8226885A4792874B5E05EE3A583F" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Covered Organization Defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section, the term ‘<term>covered organization</term>’ means any of the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HA29D02E98BAC46FC8EB067A242A56FA9" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>A corporation (other than an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3414037E2EC449E4A422AADA8705124C" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>A limited liability corporation that is not otherwise treated as a corporation for purposes of this Act (other than an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6F5CB80B4B3247419436F273E3302FE4" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>An organization described in section 501(c) of such Code and exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code (other than an organization described in section 501(c)(3) of such Code).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H85EC770BAC8D42A4A8CAD7544D7E9A37" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>A labor organization (as defined in section 316(b)).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9EE2E565EC9343478189DC3D4727C305" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>Any political organization under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, other than a political committee under this Act (except as provided in paragraph (6)).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9B2947D279894CEABF8A8B739D9D2A8C" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>A political committee with an account that accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with the contribution limits or source prohibitions under this Act, but only with respect to such accounts.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H3DF7EF1836CE4F3796D513B7F02DA13A" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Covered Transfer Defined</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HD2DD64B520C6439E87E4220FFC080B69" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this section, the term ‘<term>covered transfer</term>’ means any transfer or payment of funds by a covered organization to another person if the covered organization—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H1D709CDD3EA64C68B737F809115F8B77" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>designates, requests, or suggests that the amounts be used for—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H379CD69682F847B4B7BE0F77932C23F0" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>campaign-related disbursements (other than covered transfers); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H74FD0005602F48008C2431B15AB1C2B2" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>making a transfer to another person for the purpose of making or paying for such campaign-related disbursements;</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H682903B4B888445F927B14CBB38E60B4" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>made such transfer or payment in response to a solicitation or other request for a donation or payment for—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H6A8047FF8F6B44E8A8D9C5C535CC9F41" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the making of or paying for campaign-related disbursements (other than covered transfers); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HFBE0658E11C546658D6EEC09F88CD123" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>making a transfer to another person for the purpose of making or paying for such campaign-related disbursements;</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H839672E61C294F7CAA601CA1B35745D5" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>engaged in discussions with the recipient of the transfer or payment regarding—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H15D6A39136134463ADCA49C4E0C2CB62" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the making of or paying for campaign-related disbursements (other than covered transfers); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H62D37B7842854BAC86837C10442198F3" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>donating or transferring any amount of such transfer or payment to another person for the purpose of making or paying for such campaign-related disbursements;</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H38506AD0384E4CBEAE2EE4FAC7ED2D59" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>made campaign-related disbursements (other than a covered transfer) in an aggregate amount of $50,000 or more during the 2-year period ending on the date of the transfer or payment, or knew or had reason to know that the person receiving the transfer or payment made such disbursements in such an aggregate amount during that 2-year period; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H7F19F764912E4049ACD361CE2FAB9AD6" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>knew or had reason to know that the person receiving the transfer or payment would make campaign-related disbursements in an aggregate amount of $50,000 or more during the 2-year period beginning on the date of the transfer or payment.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H32B1ABEBE37E4517B0A9554397EA8C8E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exclusions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>covered transfer</term>’ does not include any of the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H697A74560E754E56A00CC0ACD0F2346A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>A disbursement made by a covered organization in a commercial transaction in the ordinary course of any trade or business conducted by the covered organization or in the form of investments made by the covered organization.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1A6F54FB724A427C9436AFB466503B9F" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>A disbursement made by a covered organization if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HCBF76A639969497C84B89CD01EF9C839" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the covered organization prohibited, in writing, the use of such disbursement for campaign-related disbursements; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HEA63C4321CB44EABAF63BAE90296C521" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the recipient of the disbursement agreed to follow the prohibition and deposited the disbursement in an account which is segregated from any account used to make campaign-related disbursements.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HEDBA1295B512431DA18E83EE3C408E07" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule regarding transfers among affiliates</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H29284C02F1E444C28147AA05D0D163F9" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule</inline>.—</heading><content>A transfer of an amount by one covered organization to another covered organization which is treated as a transfer between affiliates under subparagraph (C) shall be considered a covered transfer by the covered organization which transfers the amount only if the aggregate amount transferred during the year by such covered organization to that same covered organization is equal to or greater than $50,000.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HBD5B367D047C49CBA0AE1D09E151F632" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Determination of amount of certain payments among affiliates</inline>.—</heading><content>In determining the amount of a transfer between affiliates for purposes of subparagraph (A), to the extent that the transfer consists of funds attributable to dues, fees, or assessments which are paid by individuals on a regular, periodic basis in accordance with a per-individual calculation which is made on a regular basis, the transfer shall be attributed to the individuals paying the dues, fees, or assessments and shall not be attributed to the covered organization.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5D8AB61A6F714CD59A5F166E977AF9E6" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Description of transfers between affiliates</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A transfer of amounts from one covered organization to another covered organization shall be treated as a transfer between affiliates if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HC9DC652848FC4ADB9C54FAFE8E3A114A" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>one of the organizations is an affiliate of the other organization; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H5D411EA2151D4AC99BF8756187E088A4" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>each of the organizations is an affiliate of the same organization,</content></clause>
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<continuation class="indent0" role="subparagraph">except that the transfer shall not be treated as a transfer between affiliates if one of the organizations is established for the purpose of making campaign-related disbursements.</continuation></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H2A449F0AA44A4D669B5B96F619A79383" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Determination of affiliate status</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of subparagraph (C), a covered organization is an affiliate of another covered organization if—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H652FADDCCF7844DCB27334E88C35014C" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the governing instrument of the organization requires it to be bound by decisions of the other organization;</content></clause>
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<clause id="HC6378AC5F21B4DFC87127F477F65EF7C" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the governing board of the organization includes persons who are specifically designated representatives of the other organization or are members of the governing board, officers, or paid executive staff members of the other organization, or whose service on the governing board is contingent upon the approval of the other organization; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H43B59D9CAEC64841A4717B27A0DFEDB0" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the organization is chartered by the other organization.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H2A3ACFFBD0E5493F9674A35A56162E52" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coverage of transfers to affiliated section 501(c)(3) organizations</inline>.—</heading><content>This paragraph shall apply with respect to an amount transferred by a covered organization to an organization described in paragraph (3) of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code in the same manner as this paragraph applies to an amount transferred by a covered organization to another covered organization.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE376B2B8A4E846CAAE379F40D93E71F4" class="indent0"><num value="g">“(g) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on Other Reporting Requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section shall be construed to waive or otherwise affect any other requirement of this Act which relates to the reporting of campaign-related disbursements.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/a/2" id="H15A7A8FABAB14899818F917F89B4FA2E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304(f)(6) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104">52 U.S.C. 30104</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Any requirement</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Except as provided in section 324(b), any requirement</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/b" id="H665A2FBBB380497083F0A49D3DD3E33F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordination With FinCEN</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/b/1" id="H9267B11809564816AA6C36C05204958C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury shall provide the Federal Election Commission with such information as necessary to assist in administering and enforcing section 324 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as added by this section.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4111/b/2" id="HFEE4411BF5284A3EAE00F6D6E2CFF041" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission, in consultation with the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the Department of the Treasury, shall submit to Congress a report with recommendations for providing further legislative authority to assist in the administration and enforcement of such section 324.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4112" id="HC49A1DD21C6E47479FAED42DC27F3443"><num value="4112">SEC. 4112. </num><heading>APPLICATION OF FOREIGN MONEY BAN TO DISBURSEMENTS FOR CAMPAIGN-RELATED DISBURSEMENTS CONSISTING OF COVERED TRANSFERS.</heading><content class="block">Section 319(a)(1)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121/a/1/A">52 U.S.C. 30121(a)(1)(A)</ref>), as amended by section 4102, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the semicolon and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>, and any disbursement, other than an disbursement described in section 324(a)(3)(A), to another person who made a campaign-related disbursement consisting of a covered transfer (as described in section 324) during the 2-year period ending on the date of the disbursement;</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt2/s4113" id="HB8D4026E67404A85888279708F3FF970"><num value="4113">SEC. 4113. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading><content class="block">The amendments made by this part shall apply with respect to disbursements made on or after January 1, 2020, and shall take effect without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated regulations to carry out such amendments.</content></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3" id="H477174D254C444C69AC50BC46AD919D1"><num value="3">PART 3—</num><heading>OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4121" id="HFC9F98F128AF45EEB0344D6851D58DC1"><num value="4121">SEC. 4121. </num><heading>PETITION FOR CERTIORARI.</heading><content class="block">Section 307(a)(6) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30107/a/6">52 U.S.C. 30107(a)(6)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(including a proceeding before the Supreme Court on certiorari)</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>appeal</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122" id="HFBD71907892745FC81A9935E023B838B"><num value="4122">SEC. 4122. </num><heading>JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ACTIONS RELATED TO CAMPAIGN FINANCE LAWS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/a" id="H84F54A5ADBA44E74A4FB2FD15142890A" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Title IV of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30141/etseq">52 U.S.C. 30141 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after section 406 the following new section:
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<section id="H7E6814B94283421A8588ECBED1AFD026"><num value="407">“SEC. 407. </num><heading>JUDICIAL REVIEW.</heading>
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<subsection id="H872111A9BCE24726AFCAB964B9A47C0A" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Notwithstanding section 373(f), if any action is brought for declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge the constitutionality of any provision of this Act or of chapter 95 or 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or is brought to with respect to any action of the Commission under chapter 95 or 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, the following rules shall apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H6C923A07D2DA4677890372BC89116A1B" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The action shall be filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and an appeal from the decision of the district court may be taken to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H94C17E9CDDD14A279816C5D3A3804FEE" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><chapeau>In the case of an action relating to declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge the constitutionality of a provision—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H3887E5B1FAFD41E88ED0901FBD4AE999" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a copy of the complaint shall be delivered promptly to the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDB6BFF9673404D8DA719E93398CF5268" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>it shall be the duty of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of the United States to advance on the docket and to expedite to the greatest possible extent the disposition of the action and appeal.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7C37B11AF5144670826A76AD38E6A1C6" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Intervention by Members of Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>In any action in which the constitutionality of any provision of this Act or chapter 95 or 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is raised, any Member of the House of Representatives (including a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to the Congress) or Senate shall have the right to intervene either in support of or opposition to the position of a party to the case regarding the constitutionality of the provision. To avoid duplication of efforts and reduce the burdens placed on the parties to the action, the court in any such action may make such orders as it considers necessary, including orders to require interveners taking similar positions to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H8DA8841C4FD34ABC8143A351FB312CBD" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Challenge by Members of Congress</inline>.—</heading><content>Any Member of Congress may bring an action, subject to the special rules described in subsection (a), for declaratory or injunctive relief to challenge the constitutionality of any provision of this Act or chapter 95 or 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.”</content></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/b" id="H7D8BF5CCF95C4E6FA58D0FC0151D5982" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/b/1" id="HF93F55F014E44BC881E49AD21A6B6EB5" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/b/1/A" id="H1C6AAFF1BAE04349926BAB31E652F403" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Section 9011 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H37A5503CF3DD4C25A6704906714FCF82" styleType="OLC">
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<section id="HD201EFEB00CF4A9AA0AA47922DC330FA"><num value="9011">“SEC. 9011. </num><heading>JUDICIAL REVIEW.</heading><content class="block">“For provisions relating to judicial review of certifications, determinations, and actions by the Commission under this chapter, see section 407 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.”</content></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/b/1/B" id="H8FF308B12E3E40A2A3293039BA52E021" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Section 9041 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H22774C8AC5364014A3B9ABCCA1016139" styleType="OLC">
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<section id="HFD04C03A581042D48A66E561748A02EF"><num value="9041">“SEC. 9041. </num><heading>JUDICIAL REVIEW.</heading><content class="block">“For provisions relating to judicial review of actions by the Commission under this chapter, see section 407 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.”</content></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/b/1/C" id="HB9FE12214C144F698EF9A5423924D5A4" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>Section 403 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30110">52 U.S.C. 30110 note</ref>) is <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stB/pt3/s4122/c" id="HAE0089A019AD4BC6BE70BB567F6A3179" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply to actions brought on or after January 1, 2019.</content></subsection></section></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC" id="H2CA0429E6C25415E8D920682489F3304"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Honest Ads</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4201" id="H2E7C2A4020464A52BE814D8EC1664381"><num value="4201">SEC. 4201. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Honest Ads Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4202" id="H9D290F3211EF4759B6C00A3B8407EE5E"><num value="4202">SEC. 4202. </num><heading>PURPOSE.</heading><content class="block">The purpose of this subtitle is to enhance the integrity of American democracy and national security by improving disclosure requirements for online political advertisements in order to uphold the Supreme Court’s well-established standard that the electorate bears the right to be fully informed.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203" id="HDD199EC299FF45EE80BBA62EBC36DABE"><num value="4203">SEC. 4203. </num><heading>FINDINGS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Congress makes the following findings:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/1" id="H9BAB34DBE3F743618624B85345C7985C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>On January 6, 2017, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence published a report titled “Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections”, noting that “Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election . . .”. Moscow’s influence campaign followed a Russian messaging strategy that blends covert intelligence operation—such as cyber activity—with overt efforts by Russian Government agencies, state-funded media, third-party intermediaries, and paid social media users or “trolls”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/2" id="H2B7A0EFDA39B48BE8400B62F9DA3512B" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>On November 24, 2016, The Washington Post reported findings from 2 teams of independent researchers that concluded Russians “exploited American-made technology platforms to attack U.S. democracy at a particularly vulnerable moment . . . as part of a broadly effective strategy of sowing distrust in U.S. democracy and its leaders.”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/3" id="H5C6308613BF1496ABD5D1F45CDB57046" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Findings from a 2017 study on the manipulation of public opinion through social media conducted by the Computational Propaganda Research Project at the Oxford Internet Institute found that the Kremlin is using pro-Russian bots to manipulate public discourse to a highly targeted audience. With a sample of nearly 1,300,000 tweets, researchers found that in the 2016 election’s 3 decisive States, propaganda constituted 40 percent of the sampled election-related tweets that went to Pennsylvanians, 34 percent to Michigan voters, and 30 percent to those in Wisconsin. In other swing States, the figure reached 42 percent in Missouri, 41 percent in Florida, 40 percent in North Carolina, 38 percent in Colorado, and 35 percent in Ohio.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/4" id="HC2102E2A34B44FB2959FB00CE1EE3D63" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>On September 6, 2017, the nation’s largest social media platform disclosed that between June 2015 and May 2017, Russian entities purchased $100,000 in political advertisements, publishing roughly 3,000 ads linked to fake accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency, a pro-Kremlin organization. According to the company, the ads purchased focused “on amplifying divisive social and political messages . . .”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/5" id="H2F2DA2A1EEEB4168975F08BB9E9B5C8E" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>In 2002, the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act became law, establishing disclosure requirements for political advertisements distributed from a television or radio broadcast station or provider of cable or satellite television. In 2003, the Supreme Court upheld regulations on electioneering communications established under the Act, noting that such requirements “provide the electorate with information and insure that the voters are fully informed about the person or group who is speaking.”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/6" id="H0984BE5C0B584A33AB3FEE2CC8A6D50F" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>According to a study from Borrell Associates, in 2016, $1,415,000,000 was spent on online advertising, more than quadruple the amount in 2012.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/7" id="H45FAF06830AB4D9FB4F4F9D1DF84C31B" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>The reach of a few large internet platforms—larger than any broadcast, satellite, or cable provider—has greatly facilitated the scope and effectiveness of disinformation campaigns. For instance, the largest platform has over 210,000,000 Americans users—over 160,000,000 of them on a daily basis. By contrast, the largest cable television provider has 22,430,000 subscribers, while the largest satellite television provider has 21,000,000 subscribers. And the most-watched television broadcast in United States history had 118,000,000 viewers.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/8" id="H4A8A8744555F48BC832B111AD9216BCA" class="indent1"><num value="8">(8) </num><content>The public nature of broadcast television, radio, and satellite ensures a level of publicity for any political advertisement. These communications are accessible to the press, fact-checkers, and political opponents; this creates strong disincentives for a candidate to disseminate materially false, inflammatory, or contradictory messages to the public. Social media platforms, in contrast, can target portions of the electorate with direct, ephemeral advertisements often on the basis of private information the platform has on individuals, enabling political advertisements that are contradictory, racially or socially inflammatory, or materially false.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/9" id="H4EC0EDB138FD40A6A3B8CC1716261252" class="indent1"><num value="9">(9) </num><content>According to comScore, 2 companies own 8 of the 10 most popular smartphone applications as of June 2017, including the most popular social media and email services—which deliver information and news to users without requiring proactivity by the user. Those same 2 companies accounted for 99 percent of revenue growth from digital advertising in 2016, including 77 percent of gross spending. 79 percent of online Americans—representing 68 percent of all Americans—use the single largest social network, while 66 percent of these users are most likely to get their news from that site.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/10" id="HFC82ADE0AC0B4631966EE7C4C8AE3B66" class="indent1"><num value="10">(10) </num><content>In its 2006 rulemaking, the Federal Election Commission noted that only 18 percent of all Americans cited the internet as their leading source of news about the 2004 Presidential election; by contrast, the Pew Research Center found that 65 percent of Americans identified an internet-based source as their leading source of information for the 2016 election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/11" id="H868CB9D30E6F483B9C5959ECCFA3A248" class="indent1"><num value="11">(11) </num><content>The Federal Election Commission, the independent Federal agency charged with protecting the integrity of the Federal campaign finance process by providing transparency and administering campaign finance laws, has failed to take action to address online political advertisements.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/12" id="H88ED30FDC3994C0BA3477F2BA6582061" class="indent1"><num value="12">(12) </num><content>In testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence titled, “Disinformation: A Primer in Russian Active Measures and Influence Campaigns”, multiple expert witnesses testified that while the disinformation tactics of foreign adversaries have not necessarily changed, social media services now provide “platform[s] practically purpose-built for active measures[.]” Similarly, as Gen. Keith B. Alexander (RET.), the former Director of the National Security Agency, testified, during the Cold War “if the Soviet Union sought to manipulate information flow, it would have to do so principally through its own propaganda outlets or through active measures that would generate specific news: planting of leaflets, inciting of violence, creation of other false materials and narratives. But the news itself was hard to manipulate because it would have required actual control of the organs of media, which took long-term efforts to penetrate. Today, however, because the clear majority of the information on social media sites is uncurated and there is a rapid proliferation of information sources and other sites that can reinforce information, there is an increasing likelihood that the information available to average consumers may be inaccurate (whether intentionally or otherwise) and may be more easily manipulable than in prior eras.”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4203/13" id="HBFAF965301944A5F9DEECC17C936729E" class="indent1"><num value="13">(13) </num><content>Current regulations on political advertisements do not provide sufficient transparency to uphold the public’s right to be fully informed about political advertisements made online.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4204" id="HE6D690712E414C9CBD4EBD90F4ED576C"><num value="4204">SEC. 4204. </num><heading>SENSE OF CONGRESS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">It is the sense of Congress that—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4204/1" id="HD67EB8BDD6AC4D96ADB8C3928182B66B" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>the dramatic increase in digital political advertisements, and the growing centrality of online platforms in the lives of Americans, requires the Congress and the Federal Election Commission to take meaningful action to ensure that laws and regulations provide the accountability and transparency that is fundamental to our democracy;.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4204/2" id="H79D8D1120C4043A2A8F8E78962554E5D" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>free and fair elections require both transparency and accountability which give the public a right to know the true sources of funding for political advertisements in order to make informed political choices and hold elected officials accountable; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4204/3" id="H09AB14A29A6049D695176A968FE50372" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>transparency of funding for political advertisements is essential to enforce other campaign finance laws, including the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205" id="HAF9C9CDB11154439949E69F9728FB914"><num value="4205">SEC. 4205. </num><heading>EXPANSION OF DEFINITION OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/a" id="HDA565D04CAA64743BEBA0FE6398069ED" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (22) of section 301 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/22">52 U.S.C. 30101(22)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or satellite communication</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>satellite, paid internet, or paid digital communication</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b" id="H9086DF9248174526932B15A7B0FC6E8A" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of Contributions and Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 301 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101">52 U.S.C. 30101</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/1" id="HDB58FB954E2F479D837257680171FB80" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (8)(B)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/1/A" id="H92D06119C54A4ED9A2647FD60AC1C525" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>in clause (v), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>on broadcasting stations, or in newspapers, magazines, or similar types of general public political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>in any public communication</quotedText>”;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/1/B" id="H947D9566E0124805A83D0FCD1EBDD5CF" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in clause (ix), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>broadcasting, newspaper, magazine, billboard, direct mail, or similar type of general public communication or political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>public communication</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/1/C" id="HF91A7E38D3904F47B77AFF51DC0BC770" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>in clause (x), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>but not including the use of broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, billboards, direct mail, or similar types of general public communication or political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>but not including use in any public communication</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/2" id="H92DB127943BF43E7BE46E9561FB21A9A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (9)(B)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/2/A" id="HC51721BE67B84F7586425B2BDF780A6A" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> clause (i) to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HD8EC8AA857D94996B8A63810386CC287" styleType="OLC">
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<clause id="HF254D2CA3559460696449E2B5E920616" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>any news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station or any print, online, or digital newspaper, magazine, blog, publication, or periodical, unless such broadcasting, print, online, or digital facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate;”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">; and</inline></content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/b/2/B" id="HFC0622AD98774C38A552D89F2708F057" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in clause (iv), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>on broadcasting stations, or in newspapers, magazines, or similar types of general public political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>in any public communication</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/c" id="H1FA3C2CA91034FD4A5A3BC0BC5B583EE" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure and Disclaimer Statements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subsection (a) of section 318 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120">52 U.S.C. 30120</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/c/1" id="H78AD6812A54C467C8E652BDBDA44A6B3" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>financing any communication through any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, mailing, or any other type of general public political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>financing any public communication</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4205/c/2" id="HC18CA3D5753844F3A5CB5D6F7505FE5C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>solicits any contribution through any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, outdoor advertising facility, mailing, or any other type of general public political advertising</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>solicits any contribution through any public communication</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206" id="HCC524FA713A841F5B54F37FDBB83CF4C"><num value="4206">SEC. 4206. </num><heading>EXPANSION OF DEFINITION OF ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a" id="HF4BA3E7A48524134A2B7D9A43D215DAB" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Expansion to Online Communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a/1" id="H6F19AA6F8BE44985A6E32B688CEEE435" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application to qualified internet and digital communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a/1/A" id="HE465479AA404416D9E3F51EE8D32450D" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Subparagraph (A) of section 304(f)(3) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/f/3/A">52 U.S.C. 30104(f)(3)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or satellite communication</quotedText>” each place it appears in clauses (i) and (ii) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>satellite, or qualified internet or digital communication</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a/1/B" id="HBC3053DE31DC411E92E623C43660E419" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified internet or digital communication</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (3) of section 304(f) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/f">52 U.S.C. 30104(f)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H7BAA80AE61084F8ABA764C6251CF062C" styleType="OLC">
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="H6BA6090102AF4D47A43A0E5C87508522" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified internet or digital communication</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>qualified internet or digital communication</term>’ means any communication which is placed or promoted for a fee on an online platform (as defined in subsection (j)(3)).”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a/2" id="HC62D4F7201CE4C0F9ACDB1F1063FAD6A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Nonapplication of relevant electorate to online communications</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304(f)(3)(A)(i)(III) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/f/3/A/i/III">52 U.S.C. 30104(f)(3)(A)(i)(III)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>any broadcast, cable, or satellite</quotedText>” before “<quotedText>communication</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/a/3" id="H05097926F9FA4EDEA419E50AA73CFE30" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">News exemption</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304(f)(3)(B)(i) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/f/3/B/i">52 U.S.C. 30104(f)(3)(B)(i)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H6AAE5193838440CFBAF64CA4028243FA" styleType="OLC">
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<clause id="HC9BEA303C3B04CF2B59A174F56CD521A" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>a communication appearing in a news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station or any online or digital newspaper, magazine, blog, publication, or periodical, unless such broadcasting, online, or digital facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate;”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4206/b" id="H41DAF32DDD0247278B75D2EBCAE51184" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to communications made on or after January 1, 2020.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207" id="HBEBA901D1CE84388B3090C30E34CE7D6"><num value="4207">SEC. 4207. </num><heading>APPLICATION OF DISCLAIMER STATEMENTS TO ONLINE COMMUNICATIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/a" id="H7C94B7FF0C4F4EF3A4140E55FACE27B3" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clear and Conspicuous Manner Requirement</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subsection (a) of section 318 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/a">52 U.S.C. 30120(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/a/1" id="H9498EA999C65437EA9CDE9F6C771BA7D" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>shall clearly state</quotedText>” each place it appears in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>shall state in a clear and conspicuous manner</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/a/2" id="H06628A74C09041D8AC8BA58ACA35CA24" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following flush sentence: “<quotedText>For purposes of this section, a communication does not make a statement in a clear and conspicuous manner if it is difficult to read or hear or if the placement is easily overlooked.</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/b" id="H4E7373325D9F48CD905B37B9D1A7B242" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special Rules for Qualified Internet or Digital Communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/b/1" id="H2331710A281F430F841FC8392F11465B" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120">52 U.S.C. 30120</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H3D635F27E8134DFCA24E0515EF72AB85" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="H435CDDE707B44F9EB16656203A3D29B6" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special Rules for Qualified Internet or Digital Communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H7621376917AD40358E039B8AB215011D" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rules with respect to statements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of any qualified internet or digital communication (as defined in section 304(f)(3)(D)) which is disseminated through a medium in which the provision of all of the information specified in this section is not possible, the communication shall, in a clear and conspicuous manner—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HF10BBEB0BCBC4FA3BB9AFA9B60788253" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>state the name of the person who paid for the communication; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H588D379E8E2C4E8A8769EF61634F4A59" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>provide a means for the recipient of the communication to obtain the remainder of the information required under this section with minimal effort and without receiving or viewing any additional material other than such required information.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H010484A023404E9BB673B27AE137AA9E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Safe harbor for determining clear and conspicuous manner</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A statement in qualified internet or digital communication (as defined in section 304(f)(3)(D)) shall be considered to be made in a clear and conspicuous manner as provided in subsection (a) if the communication meets the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HE11F75A461CE4044873524F2F035DD33" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Text or graphic communications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of a text or graphic communication, the statement—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HB63338A025334AE3813359B737A0F5E6" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>appears in letters at least as large as the majority of the text in the communication; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H5B5F909626F7437BAD15BABD919B593B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>meets the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (c).</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H526B137E9753409D9E0B2265B3674AA6" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Audio communications</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of an audio communication, the statement is spoken in a clearly audible and intelligible manner at the beginning or end of the communication and lasts at least 3 seconds.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H641DB21850B74E59A9647D4AC388D40D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Video communications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of a video communication which also includes audio, the statement—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H560F89EDAF8E4C6A84F572B4C773B6C2" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>is included at either the beginning or the end of the communication; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H194534CC3A0F4555B0E4AF4257BF5535" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><chapeau>is made both in—</chapeau>
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<subclause id="H351F005DDAC54088AAA2CD8A0A413B62" class="indent4"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>a written format that meets the requirements of subparagraph (A) and appears for at least 4 seconds; and</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="H0789424FB5514CD3BCA1EB58C5406C12" class="indent4"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>an audible format that meets the requirements of subparagraph (B).</content></subclause></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H60FAAB33F4BD475798DAA455C0218FAB" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other communications</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of any other type of communication, the statement is at least as clear and conspicuous as the statement specified in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C).”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/b/2" id="HDCBDF4DA7D0844CEBA01B1E4896F183C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Nonapplication of certain exceptions</inline>.—</heading><content>The exceptions provided in <ref href="/us/cfr/t11/s110.11/f/1/i) and (ii">section 110.11(f)(1)(i) and (ii) of title 11, Code of Federal Regulations</ref>, or any successor to such rules, shall have no application to qualified internet or digital communications (as defined in section 304(f)(3)(D) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c" id="HC69541EDB4A94839ACFF45A93F646BCC" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Modification of Additional Requirements for Certain Communications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 318(d) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/d">52 U.S.C. 30120(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/1" id="HE2BBF03B5D854DE099DE33B5D6D3C636" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (1)(A)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/1/A" id="H6D0784BD556A42E5BD9718DF5215AC7F" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is transmitted through radio</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is in an audio format</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/1/B" id="HD66C513BBE8C47268716DAFDA28274B9" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<headingText role="subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">By radio</headingText>” in the heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<headingText role="subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">Audio format</headingText>”;</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/2" id="HD608BB197C4B4175B395916101BC251D" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (1)(B)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/2/A" id="HC9F465CCCFF6419DB8E1BA5AEDD49093" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is transmitted through television</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is in video format</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/2/B" id="H038A74C5A29E465CB8F681F9D53567DE" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<headingText role="subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">By television</headingText>” in the heading and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<headingText role="subparagraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">Video format</headingText>”; and</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/3" id="HE21E55608AEE483387BDF9AD8C293E38" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (2)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/3/A" id="HB2F5CEE58B6F446D880978DFDD12C913" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>transmitted through radio or television</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>made in audio or video format</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4207/c/3/B" id="H5F2AFD0429D34CC884551223A3391DF3" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>through television</quotedText>” in the second sentence and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>in video format</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208" id="HE6A2BA7189BD4E5E8B6931AA7880B1D0"><num value="4208">SEC. 4208. </num><heading>POLITICAL RECORD REQUIREMENTS FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/a" id="H933EDB89CAC84037AF7924E54104ABFA" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104">52 U.S.C. 30104</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H3DA23235FCD24BEFA82797B5F48D9D77" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="HE074B367B73D48B2AFE0C64662685AB8" class="indent0"><num value="j">“(j) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure of Certain Online Advertisements</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HBFAAE63A661C480FA63CAF099A46AC15" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H80CD5321B307460C8A5ABDF67707888B" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for online platforms</inline>.—</heading><content>An online platform shall maintain, and make available for online public inspection in machine readable format, a complete record of any request to purchase on such online platform a qualified political advertisement which is made by a person whose aggregate requests to purchase qualified political advertisements on such online platform during the calendar year exceeds $500.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H7F37340D596A4408808304708128B0FF" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for advertisers</inline>.—</heading><content>Any person who requests to purchase a qualified political advertisement on an online platform shall provide the online platform with such information as is necessary for the online platform to comply with the requirements of subparagraph (A).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H5AB41E4698EE46DF9330E3076F661DCB" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contents of record</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A record maintained under paragraph (1)(A) shall contain—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H34F40BAC09A54C71811E286D7510D8D5" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a digital copy of the qualified political advertisement;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H44E824672D5C428BAAD428FEDE7D596E" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>a description of the audience targeted by the advertisement, the number of views generated from the advertisement, and the date and time that the advertisement is first displayed and last displayed; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC7EC7C272B8147D693C2BFE3EB17C6B8" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>information regarding—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HEDE30DC115DE4B98922AB145674CD179" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the average rate charged for the advertisement;</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB223FC7F8848428FA9456F1806FF7C8B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the name of the candidate to which the advertisement refers and the office to which the candidate is seeking election, the election to which the advertisement refers, or the national legislative issue to which the advertisement refers (as applicable);</content></clause>
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<clause id="H1B85A9DF33FF4D5DB1EDC8695D5D8ECF" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>in the case of a request made by, or on behalf of, a candidate, the name of the candidate, the authorized committee of the candidate, and the treasurer of such committee; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H0149CB701B5F4701AD9201E2B0144E02" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>in the case of any request not described in clause (iii), the name of the person purchasing the advertisement, the name and address of a contact person for such person, and a list of the chief executive officers or members of the executive committee or of the board of directors of such person.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9897426C905644DC9C3C8C4AD5C0A2CF" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Online platform</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>online platform</term>’ means any public-facing website, web application, or digital application (including a social network, ad network, or search engine) which—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H49A6CD494DAB4F8A9E7B6DD13F278E30" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>sells qualified political advertisements; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H05F3D2C1E5774FF0AD605B481B78C07A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>has 50,000,000 or more unique monthly United States visitors or users for a majority of months during the preceding 12 months.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HCC421F3754444424A9BD70B174CF8A72" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified political advertisement</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>qualified political advertisement</term>’ means any advertisement (including search engine marketing, display advertisements, video advertisements, native advertisements, and sponsorships) that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H56EFE507D0654D4E8E0C7A73D8A704A8" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>is made by or on behalf of a candidate; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1E1407EF62534D73A34F1E47AC8D6A9F" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>communicates a message relating to any political matter of national importance, including—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H8334A41532CF476EAEBA32A60150FDF3" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>a candidate;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H86C1F91CBEC145B0A939D012C04C2B4F" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>any election to Federal office; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HFD01E7AEA50C464C93B902F7A45853CA" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>a national legislative issue of public importance.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HBAFFEE5CAE7D49CAB2E858B728D39038" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Time to maintain file</inline>.—</heading><content>The information required under this subsection shall be made available as soon as possible and shall be retained by the online platform for a period of not less than 4 years.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD98314F0D07C467696D19F6D48D9F453" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Safe harbor for platforms making best efforts to identify requests which are subject to record maintenance requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>In accordance with rules established by the Commission, if an online platform shows that the platform used best efforts to determine whether or not a request to purchase a qualified political advertisement was subject to the requirements of this subsection, the online platform shall not be considered to be in violation of such requirements.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H05FBDB991B77496294DDB6C3D534C095" class="indent1"><num value="7">“(7) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Penalties</inline>.—</heading><content>For penalties for failure by online platforms, and persons requesting to purchase a qualified political advertisement on online platforms, to comply with the requirements of this subsection, see section 309.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/b" id="H600DF493C14C4BC895CC57F8A7E3864C" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rulemaking</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Election Commission shall establish rules—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/b/1" id="H8DFFD2AB8BF248259C289E2412FDC1DF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>requiring common data formats for the record required to be maintained under section 304(j) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as added by subsection (a)) so that all online platforms submit and maintain data online in a common, machine-readable and publicly accessible format; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/b/2" id="H3B2C1E3630EF444D862BFDD556A101F7" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>establishing search interface requirements relating to such record, including searches by candidate name, issue, purchaser, and date; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/b/3" id="H594A9E71785549B6AA690F9881764CFD" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>establishing the criteria for the safe harbor exception provided under paragraph (6) of section 304(j) of such Act (as added by subsection (a)).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/c" id="H8738480BB16F4B3586D0E5C5A28C588F" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reporting</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, and biannually thereafter, the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission shall submit a report to Congress on—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/c/1" id="H3A4B428BA31D4541BA56B95B3F0129A6" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>matters relating to compliance with and the enforcement of the requirements of section 304(j) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as added by subsection (a);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/c/2" id="HA63C8733D1A14337A7EA48E977751FF0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>recommendations for any modifications to such section to assist in carrying out its purposes; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4208/c/3" id="H2D41D6A32AD94355BB63CDF4D0D17E6C" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>identifying ways to bring transparency and accountability to political advertisements distributed online for free.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stC/s4209" id="HC5295BEEF7AF45B38D6186616389E8BC"><num value="4209">SEC. 4209. </num><heading>PREVENTING CONTRIBUTIONS, EXPENDITURES, INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURES, AND DISBURSEMENTS FOR ELECTIONEERING COMMUNICATIONS BY FOREIGN NATIONALS IN THE FORM OF ONLINE ADVERTISING.</heading><content>Section 319 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30121">52 U.S.C. 30121</ref>), as amended by section 4101(a)(2) and section 4101(b), is further amended by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HCC1F856105B34896BF945DC67080E1D5" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="HF25A3CC341F74E05BE88EBE9B91B4BB4" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Responsibilities of Broadcast Stations, Providers of Cable and Satellite Television, and Online Platforms</inline>.—</heading><content>Each television or radio broadcast station, provider of cable or satellite television, or online platform (as defined in section 304(j)(3)) shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that communications described in section 318(a) and made available by such station, provider, or platform are not purchased by a foreign national, directly or indirectly.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD" id="HB42A9A7BB0D243B793D38F2993E3913F"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>Stand By Every Ad</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4301" id="H2D42A24113024762BDE6A78F804BFD38"><num value="4301">SEC. 4301. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Stand By Every Ad Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302" id="HC3F5CEBA96824D0C8A1531BF92D7E4C7"><num value="4302">SEC. 4302. </num><heading>STAND BY EVERY AD.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/a" id="HBB25426881804C759AADC1EA4D726FE1" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Expanded Disclaimer Requirements for Certain Communications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 318 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120">52 U.S.C. 30120</ref>), as amended by section 4207(b)(1), is further amended—</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/a/1" id="HC05FA44107984E8BAEE4177E9B7DA110" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (e) as subsection (f); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/a/2" id="H3BFD3F11C8C948E0B1C47B8B9EBDFB1C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after subsection (d) the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H2D58B81AFB874C7EB5CF467BDD60F0EF" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="H8BBCEAC75C59435AB5CF9BFDCCEBE7DF" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Expanded Disclaimer Requirements for Communications Not Authorized by Candidates or Committees</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H37BE08C84087419EB4A802D9891F0B35" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in paragraph (6), any communication described in paragraph (3) of subsection (a) which is transmitted in an audio or video format (including an Internet or digital communication), or which is an Internet or digital communication transmitted in a text or graphic format, shall include, in addition to the requirements of paragraph (3) of subsection (a), the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HD72AF69AEF274AEE84C1ED5FA75F8F63" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The individual disclosure statement described in paragraph (2)(A) (if the person paying for the communication is an individual) or the organizational disclosure statement described in paragraph (2)(B) (if the person paying for the communication is not an individual).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H81718A5FD528489CBBE7FBEBD9A75425" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>If the communication is transmitted in a video format, or is an Internet or digital communication which is transmitted in a text or graphic format, and is paid for in whole or in part with a payment which is treated as a campaign-related disbursement under section 324—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H61F3FB57E465414CAB2F4DF34A051097" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the Top Five Funders list (if applicable); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H94341677AA45414BA77273C765F7F70B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>in the case of a communication which, as determined on the basis of criteria established in regulations issued by the Commission, is of such short duration that including the Top Five Funders list in the communication would constitute a hardship to the person paying for the communication by requiring a disproportionate amount of the content of the communication to consist of the Top Five Funders list, the name of a website which contains the Top Five Funders list (if applicable) or, in the case of an Internet or digital communication, a hyperlink to such website.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCC1C8D53BF0345359CACCA448497810E" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>If the communication is transmitted in an audio format and is paid for in whole or in part with a payment which is treated as a campaign-related disbursement under section 324—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HC067585A7CE64655BF7C8D67BCD1D252" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the Top Two Funders list (if applicable); or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HF8D49127D3D04405885624D2C408B480" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>in the case of a communication which, as determined on the basis of criteria established in regulations issued by the Commission, is of such short duration that including the Top Two Funders list in the communication would constitute a hardship to the person paying for the communication by requiring a disproportionate amount of the content of the communication to consist of the Top Two Funders list, the name of a website which contains the Top Two Funders list (if applicable).</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HAEB2EF577C83403BA315F8171A774447" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure statements described</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H15FB3243054B4E06B71A77AF7EBB42CB" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Individual disclosure statements</inline>.—</heading><content>The individual disclosure statement described in this subparagraph is the following: ‘I am ________, and I approve this message.’, with the blank filled in with the name of the applicable individual.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9EB9AB097E34498DBF5F81EDC22862ED" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Organizational disclosure statements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The organizational disclosure statement described in this subparagraph is the following: ‘I am ________, the ________ of ________, and ________ approves this message.’, with—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H9B182A1EFAC248D98F0ECFE5C3CF25C6" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the first blank to be filled in with the name of the applicable individual;</content></clause>
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<clause id="HDE7A3E6227FB4CA2A6DCB9D10FA6DE26" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the second blank to be filled in with the title of the applicable individual; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H8F39E74650064DE2AF205F5600942B05" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the third and fourth blank each to be filled in with the name of the organization or other person paying for the communication.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H1D5A818A24C0462AADF9C4EEBFD3BDB6" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Method of conveyance of statement</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H1364A095540D4484A8C4258B34536FD3" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Communications in text or graphic format</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of a communication to which this subsection applies which is transmitted in a text or graphic format, the disclosure statements required under paragraph (1) shall appear in letters at least as large as the majority of the text in the communication.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8E32F9B12E704A17ACADD092C0A674A6" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Communications transmitted in audio format</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of a communication to which this subsection applies which is transmitted in an audio format, the disclosure statements required under paragraph (1) shall be made by audio by the applicable individual in a clear and conspicuous manner.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H79DCCE22441649929794F2A4F7DCB026" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Communications transmitted in video format</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of a communication to which this subsection applies which is transmitted in a video format, the information required under paragraph (1)—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HCE058ADDDE2F4408B3F5178730BD83ED" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>shall appear in writing at the end of the communication or in a crawl along the bottom of the communication in a clear and conspicuous manner, with a reasonable degree of color contrast between the background and the printed statement, for a period of at least 6 seconds; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H7055128413F442F8A9C7A454E554072D" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>shall also be conveyed by an unobscured, full-screen view of the applicable individual or by the applicable individual making the statement in voice-over accompanied by a clearly identifiable photograph or similar image of the individual, except in the case of a Top Five Funders list.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H2072186F3786458CBF7CEEEB4467629A" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Applicable individual defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>applicable individual</term>’ means, with respect to a communication to which this subsection applies—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HAC747697C7FE46B6B12D561F2E5495F2" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>if the communication is paid for by an individual, the individual involved;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H180DBB29C47B4355A91786C09E5DD107" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>if the communication is paid for by a corporation, the chief executive officer of the corporation (or, if the corporation does not have a chief executive officer, the highest ranking official of the corporation);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3E27DB20C10D4B42ABFA20FFE1CF39C3" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>if the communication is paid for by a labor organization, the highest ranking officer of the labor organization; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H7A0190DCED3E47E191CF93A328EC9489" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>if the communication is paid for by any other person, the highest ranking official of such person.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HACA2A44981314322BBEEBD0F5E3DAB26" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Top five funders list and top two funders list defined</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="HB5459B1976D44E68B66E8C664D5F6B0C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Top five funders list</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>Top Five Funders list</term>’ means, with respect to a communication which is paid for in whole or in part with a campaign-related disbursement (as defined in section 324), a list of the five persons who, during the 12-month period ending on the date of the disbursement, provided the largest payments of any type in an aggregate amount equal to or exceeding $10,000 to the person who is paying for the communication and the amount of the payments each such person provided. If two or more people provided the fifth largest of such payments, the person paying for the communication shall select one of those persons to be included on the Top Five Funders list.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="HEDB56D7082E842C0BAFF017571EF87C9" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Top two funders list</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>Top Two Funders list</term>’ means, with respect to a communication which is paid for in whole or in part with a campaign-related disbursement (as defined in section 324), a list of the persons who, during the 12-month period ending on the date of the disbursement, provided the largest and the second largest payments of any type in an aggregate amount equal to or exceeding $10,000 to the person who is paying for the communication and the amount of the payments each such person provided. If two or more persons provided the second largest of such payments, the person paying for the communication shall select one of those persons to be included on the Top Two Funders list.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H2E767B9CD8F24F4E83C7C0CE95E5FA96" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exclusion of certain payments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of subparagraphs (A) and (B), in determining the amount of payments made by a person to a person paying for a communication, there shall be excluded the following:</chapeau>
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<clause id="H50F07AA9491C44D59A0E489B6121ACA6" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>Any amounts provided in the ordinary course of any trade or business conducted by the person paying for the communication or in the form of investments in the person paying for the communication.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H2AA62EDBEC2B4B1AB18BCC70C671DD21" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>Any payment which the person prohibited, in writing, from being used for campaign-related disbursements, but only if the person paying for the communication agreed to follow the prohibition and deposited the payment in an account which is segregated from any account used to make campaign-related disbursements.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H77D2B407811A45DAAC6868933C9C037D" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rules for certain communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H5AE648B355594E8F8DCBD42F4017E472" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for communications paid for by political parties and certain political committees</inline>.—</heading><content>This subsection does not apply to any communication to which subsection (d)(2) applies.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H083FD72B7C82480FAC8E724DEEFADA03" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of video communications lasting 10 seconds or less</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of a communication to which this subsection applies which is transmitted in a video format, or is an Internet or digital communication which is transmitted in a text or graphic format, the communication shall meet the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<clause id="H495CBAEC934D4AE09BB73C4CEED9371C" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>The communication shall include the individual disclosure statement described in paragraph (2)(A) (if the person paying for the communication is an individual) or the organizational disclosure statement described in paragraph (2)(B) (if the person paying for the communication is not an individual).</content></clause>
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<clause id="H613AB02CB70B4D929DB6638D6AE4A8F8" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>The statement described in clause (i) shall appear in writing at the end of the communication, or in a crawl along the bottom of the communication, in a clear and conspicuous manner, with a reasonable degree of color contrast between the background and the printed statement, for a period of at least 4 seconds.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HAF40E5A8D1504C8A9C6FB5CE88A98DDD" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>The communication shall include, in a clear and conspicuous manner, a website address with a landing page which will provide all of the information described in paragraph (1) with respect to the communication. Such address shall appear for the full duration of the communication.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB33E3C494EB4454EA5769FD107E5B839" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>To the extent that the format in which the communication is made permits the use of a hyperlink, the communication shall include a hyperlink to the website address described in clause (iii).”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/b" id="HE7070C878BDE409A98B73B686F9B46B9" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application of Expanded Requirements to Public Communications Consisting of Campaign-Related Disbursements</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/a">52 U.S.C. 30120(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>for the purpose of financing communications expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>for a campaign-related disbursement, as defined in section 324, consisting of a public communication</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c" id="H3DB8C36801B84CD1BF1ED82EE33D3BCD" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for Communications Paid for by Political Parties and Certain Political Committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 318(d)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/d/2">52 U.S.C. 30120(d)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c/1" id="H456D3CCB3B3E4189AD3A58D3B8528468" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in the heading, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<headingText role="paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">others</headingText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<headingText role="paragraph" styleType="OLC" class="smallCaps">certain political committees</headingText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c/2" id="HA3C92A97C4A44C3794F8617AC66C835C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Any communication</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(A) Any communication</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c/3" id="H2C267FF3E35A4B14BDC833661F30A7C5" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which (except to the extent provided in subparagraph (B)) is paid for by a political committee (including a political committee of a political party) and</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>subsection (a)</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c/4" id="HE4B08564D9244C318996E26ECB75287F" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or other person</quotedText>” each place it appears; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4302/c/5" id="H396F7EFDFF4C474FB4947A7BE9BECAB0" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HC24F2A19865C4517BC86AEF73AE08782" styleType="traditional">
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<subparagraph id="H0C0DCC11567D46FBB0F7817252128E01" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B)</num><clause id="HB35F163151944F50A023187E153CF636" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>This paragraph does not apply to a communication paid for in whole or in part during a calendar year with a campaign-related disbursement, but only if the covered organization making the campaign-related disbursement made campaign-related disbursements (as defined in section 324) aggregating more than $10,000 during such calendar year.</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDC09788BE86D4EA5BFB2BF822BC990FA" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><chapeau>For purposes of clause (i), in determining the amount of campaign-related disbursements made by a covered organization during a year, there shall be excluded the following:</chapeau>
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<subclause id="HB086C5CCC3B64FF1A9CD8577DCFF925E" class="indent2"><num value="I">“(I) </num><content>Any amounts received by the covered organization in the ordinary course of any trade or business conducted by the covered organization or in the form of investments in the covered organization.</content></subclause>
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<subclause id="HCB6E3D6819C84106B6A599A051655FAD" class="indent2"><num value="II">“(II) </num><content>Any amounts received by the covered organization from a person who prohibited, in writing, the organization from using such amounts for campaign-related disbursements, but only if the covered organization agreed to follow the prohibition and deposited the amounts in an account which is segregated from any account used to make campaign-related disbursements.”</content></subclause></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303" id="H830B3F3EA0044C6D85CB4D8735EEAECF"><num value="4303">SEC. 4303. </num><heading>DISCLAIMER REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMUNICATIONS MADE THROUGH PRERECORDED TELEPHONE CALLS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/a" id="H829FF6DBC701432599DC7562B90D0B8B" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application of Requirements</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/a/1" id="H08C84AAFCB544765B64B276185050DD6" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/a">52 U.S.C. 30120(a)</ref>), as amended by section 4205(c), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after “<quotedText>public communication</quotedText>” each place it appears the following: “<quotedText>(including a telephone call consisting in substantial part of a prerecorded audio message)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/a/2" id="H324EC99CFE284480BB58597E1BB3F949" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Application to communications subject to expanded disclaimer requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318(e)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/e/1">52 U.S.C. 30120(e)(1)</ref>), as added by section 4302(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> in the matter preceding subparagraph (A) by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is transmitted in an audio or video format</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>which is transmitted in an audio or video format or which consists of a telephone call consisting in substantial part of a prerecorded audio message</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/b" id="HED8C73E386364A0AB466D1A98419AA77" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment as Communication Transmitted in Audio Format</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/b/1" id="HC2913FACA2CA44359E7ADCCEDF4CC2D0" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Communications by candidates or authorized persons</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318(d) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/d">52 U.S.C. 30120(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HC161B611FFB64C309A749468E53C4763" styleType="OLC">
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<paragraph id="H3EE5A66FA4CE4C98AC5217C74F99964E" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prerecorded telephone calls</inline>.—</heading><content>Any communication described in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) (other than a communication which is subject to subsection (e)) which is a telephone call consisting in substantial part of a prerecorded audio message shall include, in addition to the requirements of such paragraph, the audio statement required under subparagraph (A) of paragraph (1) or the audio statement required under paragraph (2) (whichever is applicable), except that the statement shall be made at the beginning of the telephone call.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4303/b/2" id="HC7D5577D63784BB3BA40C24088A26075" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Communications subject to expanded disclaimer requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 318(e)(3) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30120/e/3">52 U.S.C. 30120(e)(3)</ref>), as added by section 4302(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H613AA126394A4214984CF83FF0EACD14" styleType="OLC">
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<subparagraph id="H3517163FD7364B76828E8D970921813F" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prerecorded telephone calls</inline>.—</heading><content>In the case of a communication to which this subsection applies which is a telephone call consisting in substantial part of a prerecorded audio message, the communication shall be considered to be transmitted in an audio format.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4304" id="HD54E5EF632D744FC8B63E66C61B8219F"><num value="4304">SEC. 4304. </num><heading>NO EXPANSION OF PERSONS SUBJECT TO DISCLAIMER REQUIREMENTS ON INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS.</heading><content class="block">Nothing in this subtitle or the amendments made by this subtitle may be construed to require any person who is not required under section 318 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as provided under section 110.11 of <ref href="/us/cfr/t11">title 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations</ref>) to include a disclaimer on communications made by the person through the internet to include any disclaimer on any such communications.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stD/s4305" id="HB0AE7B8F84D043179ED5D676A9397CCE"><num value="4305">SEC. 4305. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading><content class="block">The amendments made by this subtitle shall apply with respect to communications made on or after January 1, 2020, and shall take effect without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated regulations to carry out such amendments.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stE" id="HBE3FCDF2ABE84D74B722E07EFB3458EC"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stF" id="H27C86267E6DE4FAB84F2101AD2B7D500"><num value="F">Subtitle F—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stG" id="HA6075379C1394B9FBFF74BE82CBBCFFB"><num value="G">Subtitle G—</num><heading>[Reserved]</heading></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH" id="H3F5F1DDCE9EB4D11B5B50A1D9DB88741"><num value="H">Subtitle H—</num><heading>Limitation and Disclosure Requirements for Presidential Inaugural Committees</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4701" id="H28285817F7CE4145A4EC6435B469645E"><num value="4701">SEC. 4701. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Presidential Inaugural Committee Oversight Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702" id="H94D3C772514D499F958E5FE6F7805DE9"><num value="4702">SEC. 4702. </num><heading>LIMITATIONS AND DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN DONATIONS TO, AND DISBURSEMENTS BY, INAUGURAL COMMITTEES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/a" id="HB2B815EF404D46FD8CA2C0E88FD3C02E" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements for Inaugural Committees</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/etseq">52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new section:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HB1B3B639E436497492B3E0D5339E8C05" styleType="OLC">
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<section id="HEA4C217969EE42A58529BE4C75293F04"><num value="325">“SEC. 325. </num><heading>INAUGURAL COMMITTEES.</heading>
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<subsection id="HB82B337AC18A48A487071FED6EA4E009" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibited Donations</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HFC8573C89FD0423697819DFCA92B7231" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>It shall be unlawful—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HB8AE40D89AD74B27BBF4BA92FCAD96A1" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>for an Inaugural Committee—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H316B0EDA5D3340188FB26D764358439B" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>to solicit, accept, or receive a donation from a person that is not an individual; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H97BA56AB640C4A80BD29DBC73F1B0BE2" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>to solicit, accept, or receive a donation from a foreign national;</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3F48CFCF2ECA4AD293300B89F54558FC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>for a person—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H938DAED7948A4A5EAAA9AA7C99E82F0B" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>to make a donation to an Inaugural Committee in the name of another person, or to knowingly authorize his or her name to be used to effect such a donation;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H90BC916D28C54AB687ADFB52051286C4" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>to knowingly accept a donation to an Inaugural Committee made by a person in the name of another person; or</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HBD5F3DB8CC7F49059C871F43EA51003C" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>to convert a donation to an Inaugural Committee to personal use as described in paragraph (2); and</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDA4DB9804A634E5F8A7665D7E0E5626C" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>for a foreign national to, directly or indirectly, make a donation, or make an express or implied promise to make a donation, to an Inaugural Committee.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H0393C5E4D3734EF4A7466F6CD9383424" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conversion of donation to personal use</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of paragraph (1)(B)(iii), a donation shall be considered to be converted to personal use if any part of the donated amount is used to fulfill a commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the responsibilities of the Inaugural Committee under <ref href="/us/usc/t36/ch5">chapter 5 of title 36, United States Code</ref>.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H68485BD5D77E46B68422A41116E319F9" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on disbursement of unused funds to nonprofit organizations</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this subsection may be construed to prohibit an Inaugural Committee from disbursing unused funds to an organization which is described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and is exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="H9E2DD71225734370B80EEAC285B1BDA9" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limitation on Donations</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph id="H8293495ACE7741EC87838CC7FB87249A" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>It shall be unlawful for an individual to make donations to an Inaugural Committee which, in the aggregate, exceed $50,000.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="H929932DE00404725B127DEB573DDD912" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Indexing</inline>.—</heading><content>At the beginning of each Presidential election year (beginning with 2024), the amount described in paragraph (1) shall be increased by the cumulative percent difference determined in section 315(c)(1)(A) since the previous Presidential election year. If any amount after such increase is not a multiple of $1,000, such amount shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $1,000.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection id="H02EAE7DEBDB2411FA03CA97A1F6CAC24" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Disclosure of Certain Donations and Disbursements</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph id="H494E8ECC9A56417A850DB6EE2FEE038C" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Donations over $1,000</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H11CE2501841B4D61BECFB85A0D29748A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>An Inaugural Committee shall file with the Commission a report disclosing any donation by an individual to the committee in an amount of $1,000 or more not later than 24 hours after the receipt of such donation.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HA913A44B33164A26A1BD4A5662B6F6F6" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contents of report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A report filed under subparagraph (A) shall contain—</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="H61662AF81A904EAB9045796F12AEBC41" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the amount of the donation;</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HBB47F3D1B9F6477D830AAD8D3380F641" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the date the donation is received; and</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H9DEA992B99C54898939D4B69A2C44010" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the name and address of the individual making the donation.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="HBE4FB09DED5E45F8B577652B0CB31863" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Final report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than the date that is 90 days after the date of the Presidential inaugural ceremony, the Inaugural Committee shall file with the Commission a report containing the following information:</chapeau>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HDF467F9221004063ADC89B30857827CD" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>For each donation of money or anything of value made to the committee in an aggregate amount equal to or greater than $200—</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="H14F13CDD92BB49DEAF17972478EDD300" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the amount of the donation;</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H6D6C791A7F4F4A7F95EB364643FF84BF" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the date the donation is received; and</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H14558358929B49E6A7526899BE7EB16E" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>the name and address of the individual making the donation.</content></clause></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="H76C696D0DC6F4852866E4BC195532778" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>The total amount of all disbursements, and all disbursements in the following categories:</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="HF08AA0E42BB74DCA970CA146AF7C1BE9" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>Disbursements made to meet committee operating expenses.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HA9620238F3D54482819E98489018C863" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>Repayment of all loans.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H558D50B5407542C698A4FB2980E5C2B3" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>Donation refunds and other offsets to donations.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H0D154014978F4A7CBB065787E156E266" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>Any other disbursements.</content></clause></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph id="HDF6638E175C646B8BDBDB4FA9E56A566" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><chapeau>The name and address of each person—</chapeau>
|
||
<clause id="HF7C4AD54558E4D209E0C62C78F7D85CD" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>to whom a disbursement in an aggregate amount or value in excess of $200 is made by the committee to meet a committee operating expense, together with date, amount, and purpose of such operating expense;</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HE8197C2966104473A281FDA6E8CE4CCA" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>who receives a loan repayment from the committee, together with the date and amount of such loan repayment;</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="HD2138D0EE9A74DD3B59FE04015059668" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>who receives a donation refund or other offset to donations from the committee, together with the date and amount of such disbursement; and</content></clause>
|
||
<clause id="H497AF0B7F52E4DDA85FF4E20F1355025" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>to whom any other disbursement in an aggregate amount or value in excess of $200 is made by the committee, together with the date and amount of such disbursement.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H35F3E149DD974B878876B54FE2417EA8" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this section:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HF3BFB03009A842869A80E7CAC21F6870" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1)</num><subparagraph role="definitions" id="HB5A46AC409F241C4A0DCB8CD861B5387" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>The term ‘<term>donation</term>’ includes—</chapeau>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H1825E36F3E294073A869DEFF9C2F5DF2" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>any gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money or anything of value made by any person to the committee; or</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H08B21E8208C849B99A91B8D51F2A5821" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the payment by any person of compensation for the personal services of another person which are rendered to the committee without charge for any purpose.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H8A99A00FFA664F4898CAE92309B75B05" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The term ‘<term>donation</term>’ does not include the value of services provided without compensation by any individual who volunteers on behalf of the committee.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HCAC8A22B6C9B4A5E96BE7788EE2F8213" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The term ‘<term>foreign national</term>’ has the meaning given that term by section 319(b).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H47F4DFF0D8C6402AB1E06AFC5C10779D" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The term ‘<term>Inaugural Committee</term>’ has the meaning given that term by <ref href="/us/usc/t36/s501">section 501 of title 36, United States Code</ref>.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/b" id="H38E8923BCDA7470F9A0520AC5375E807" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Confirming Amendment Related to Reporting Requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 304 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104">52 U.S.C. 30104</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/b/1" id="HD8FF3642826F404EB343FD21087E0E92" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (h); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/b/2" id="H5592520480BA46F89376EC1214C45323" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (i) as subsection (h).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/c" id="H21473E3DB23E4CEFA944EDA635F395DE" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Related to Status of Committee</inline>.—</heading><content><ref href="/us/usc/t36/s510">Section 510 of title 36, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<section id="H99DB5D32D2744AD5A6B8FF2B005247AB"><num value="510">“§ 510. </num><heading>Disclosure of and prohibition on certain donations</heading><content class="block">“A committee shall not be considered to be the Inaugural Committee for purposes of this chapter unless the committee agrees to, and meets, the requirements of section 325 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.”</content></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">. </inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stH/s4702/d" id="HF8419C7953E342A4A240DF0645D9ECDF" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to Inaugural Committees established under <ref href="/us/usc/t36/ch5">chapter 5 of title 36, United States Code</ref>, for inaugurations held in 2021 and any succeeding year.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stI" id="HEBA2C0FA026E4E6AA23DB7440EC80691"><num value="I">Subtitle I—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tIV/stI/s4801" id="H865DDC6928B348248929133278B83B14"><num value="4801">SEC. 4801. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV" id="H8D0D7B8D4ED944DD9C4C3040F73CE5C1"><num value="V">TITLE V—</num><heading class="inline">CAMPAIGN FINANCE EMPOWERMENT</heading>
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<toc idref="H8D0D7B8D4ED944DD9C4C3040F73CE5C1">
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H65CE6BEF2F2943FA8B6A0020FCCA42F7" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Findings Relating to Citizens United Decision</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H26B32E2122724F8ABC890E4D39EA3FB3" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5001. </designator>
|
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<label>Findings relating to Citizens United decision.</label>
|
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|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A90D12C23064104AC09DFE0B7D69676" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Congressional Elections</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3669ACD4BE7C48F5BDD4309FDF433E65" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5100. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H13CEC2F859664816A42783F92AFE31B3" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">My Voice Voucher Pilot Program</inline></label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB3369FB740504A1CA3582F5639CA659C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5101. </designator>
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<label>Establishment of pilot program.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1B1550CB023B40B68EB6B2520A1E0F96" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5102. </designator>
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<label>Voucher program described.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5DB07E5687C54EDFA85EA83C903DE276" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5103. </designator>
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<label>Reports.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HC4DAFF84C3A144BBB85F3DDAFDA85340" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5104. </designator>
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<label>Definitions.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAFA4279DEC5246FF9B4BE349D89B6565" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Small Dollar Financing of Congressional Election Campaigns</inline></label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H51E99C39477A417C8D14CDE909972827" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5111. </designator>
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<label>Benefits and eligibility requirements for candidates.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0395DF0B6D2947C8B516C3484944954B" role="title">
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<designator>“TITLE V—</designator><label>SMALL DOLLAR FINANCING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB9F82B6AAEFF4E86BB6D9D30625ADBE0" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle A—</designator><label>Benefits</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H40F493D4F1AA4AB2A3DBDED9172C294A" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 501. </designator>
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<label>Benefits for participating candidates.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H8536C586599B4BF5A6A75A26F9E27D56" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 502. </designator>
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<label>Procedures for making payments.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H24F2DCFE0F274475A9361E374330899F" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 503. </designator>
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<label>Use of funds.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H89F2AB3CD4844BEEBA3CDA60E5FA6343" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 504. </designator>
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<label>Qualified small dollar contributions described.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB085D59317CE4815A3F81B1C63D3C629" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle B—</designator><label>Eligibility and Certification</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HA568FB6CD5854387AC763AF2174A9908" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 511. </designator>
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<label>Eligibility.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFF3AABB43ECC44CDA0E75BD675741CA9" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 512. </designator>
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<label>Qualifying requirements.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H861431CFBFB0464AB50962E0D2CB9499" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 513. </designator>
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<label>Certification.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H81EA1F73FFE744F78B44BBEA77CB4C24" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle C—</designator><label>Requirements for Candidates Certified as Participating Candidates</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9FE1CC792D34480893D9A13134053877" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 521. </designator>
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<label>Contribution and expenditure requirements.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H3092D056C21B45419382BC1948DC951F" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 522. </designator>
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<label>Administration of campaign.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE0D10C9423B146AC887EFA3DAD4E45D3" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 523. </designator>
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<label>Preventing unnecessary spending of public funds.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H495BF5EEC6774F6E868144FDD89EA8FF" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 524. </designator>
|
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<label>Remitting unspent funds after election.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H854FE8A9CD824355A8547F611E0E62AE" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle D—</designator><label>Enhanced Match Support</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H1798D9C2A85C42B0B1F3A15159D88CB5" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 531. </designator>
|
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<label>Enhanced support for general election.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFFAAD22A985C4D46B998962BBA4900AD" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 532. </designator>
|
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<label>Eligibility.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HB5B95CD1A7824B4D82C8CC12FB8432F8" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 533. </designator>
|
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<label>Amount.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A61FD9C0B864D708A78D6B7447EA60F" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 534. </designator>
|
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<label>Waiver of authority to retain portion of unspent funds after election.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0BE32CDE4606480992F6BF2A81CDC3DE" role="subtitle">
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<designator>“Subtitle E—</designator><label>Administrative Provisions</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HEFFA4F775CD74821890EF1450D2CB6CB" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 541. </designator>
|
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<label>Freedom From Influence Fund.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7AB5C798C95B4CA087963BD5BA594222" role="section">
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<designator>“Sec. 542. </designator>
|
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<label>Reviews and reports by Government Accountability Office.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<designator>“Sec. 543. </designator>
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<label>Administration by Commission.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 544. </designator>
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<label>Violations and penalties.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 545. </designator>
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<label>Appeals process.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 546. </designator>
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<label>Indexing of amounts.</label>
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<designator>“Sec. 547. </designator>
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<label>Election cycle defined.</label>
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<designator>Sec. 5112. </designator>
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<label>Contributions and expenditures by multicandidate and political party committees on behalf of participating candidates.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFB5283FB9DBC40F2A70208AFDC9CA9D5" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5113. </designator>
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<label>Prohibiting use of contributions by participating candidates for purposes other than campaign for election.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H608A97FF8BC644098E7FDAA36CB14EA9" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5114. </designator>
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<label>Effective date.</label>
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Presidential Elections</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H51F519142BF4492B8B38D6AF0F44FAD3" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5200. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCE61EB47D478497F81429550FF791CE9" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 1</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Primary Elections</inline></label>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HE5D6CB5DDFE14F74B0ED95E9C7FFB37C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5201. </designator>
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<label>Increase in and modifications to matching payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5B433CC186C44C9CBB57641119CB22C3" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5202. </designator>
|
||
<label>Eligibility requirements for matching payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H9450DF1F64EA40F9BA7205BF6C6E4029" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5203. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of expenditure limitations.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HD78811AF76044849B779CB7681CC10AE" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5204. </designator>
|
||
<label>Period of availability of matching payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6215B803E3F9401FA8023C08DBADD790" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5205. </designator>
|
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<label>Examination and audits of matchable contributions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HCD875570CC6F4FB680508C531D7145C5" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5206. </designator>
|
||
<label>Modification to limitation on contributions for Presidential primary candidates.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H2344565C4DEE4E9AA6FADEB0F3F9486E" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5207. </designator>
|
||
<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0EF9388529B549C38CF3144997B10386" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 2</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">General Elections</inline></label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H68E375A98C234FB985801D6AF96D238A" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5211. </designator>
|
||
<label>Modification of eligibility requirements for public financing.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HAA71BE873156498CB396DB10C64694A6" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5212. </designator>
|
||
<label>Repeal of expenditure limitations and use of qualified campaign contributions.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0C074509BFAE4CC6B330384BB2D8ECDC" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5213. </designator>
|
||
<label>Matching payments and other modifications to payment amounts.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H60F389AE1D774A769D5AE8547C7DB8E4" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5214. </designator>
|
||
<label>Increase in limit on coordinated party expenditures.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7CE3D4171ABE41718A8BBEBFBD25676B" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5215. </designator>
|
||
<label>Establishment of uniform date for release of payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H07431343FC864B308B2B0B678A2A2856" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5216. </designator>
|
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<label>Amounts in Presidential Election Campaign Fund.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H0227A1D17E6E421192A7BCB212E445CF" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5217. </designator>
|
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<label>Use of general election payments for general election legal and accounting compliance.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A7CBF873ABA4B1CAEEA9B980F3E8E10" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5218. </designator>
|
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<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7DE6C53BD44448648B60D9E6CEF90E1E" role="part">
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<designator><inline class="smallCaps">Part 3</inline>—</designator><label><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline></label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H6760CE1400964AC09ABF5EB10E89804E" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5221. </designator>
|
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<label>Effective date.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H7A38B2497B5E4213B6B3A0EA4E56ECFA" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Personal Use Services as Authorized Campaign Expenditures</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H42454F8417D34A6EA1FEB17EFF95F6BF" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5301. </designator>
|
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<label>Short title; findings; purpose.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H75FBD98523AA4EEBAB6E285D25A70AB2" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 5302. </designator>
|
||
<label>Treatment of payments for child care and other personal use services as authorized campaign expenditure.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="H5BBE9F0C7BB043B6B9B7798A978C407A" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem changed="added" origin="#HHA00" idref="HFD43D982F872428192668654A86072E3" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 5401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
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|
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA" id="H65CE6BEF2F2943FA8B6A0020FCCA42F7"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Findings Relating to <i>Citizens United</i> Decision</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001" id="H26B32E2122724F8ABC890E4D39EA3FB3"><num value="5001">SEC. 5001. </num><heading>FINDINGS RELATING TO <i>CITIZENS UNITED</i> DECISION.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau class="indent0">Congress finds the following:</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/1" id="H244B5238E1814375B6A75F9C98C6D60F" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>The American Republic was founded on the principle that all people are created equal, with rights and responsibilities as citizens to vote, be represented, speak, debate, and participate in self-government on equal terms regardless of wealth. To secure these rights and responsibilities, our Constitution not only protects the equal rights of all Americans but also provides checks and balances to prevent corruption and prevent concentrated power and wealth from undermining effective self-government.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/2" id="H8E7744DC36EE49E7BE901FDAA622CCF0" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>The Supreme Court’s decisions in <i>Citizens United</i> v. <i>Federal Election Commission</i>, 558 U.S. 310 (2010) and <i>McCutcheon</i> v. <i>FEC</i>, 572 U.S. 185 (2014), as well as other court decisions, erroneously invalidated even-handed rules about the spending of money in local, State, and Federal elections. These flawed decisions have empowered large corporations, extremely wealthy individuals, and special interests to dominate election spending, corrupt our politics, and degrade our democracy through tidal waves of unlimited and anonymous spending. These decisions also stand in contrast to a long history of efforts by Congress and the States to regulate money in politics to protect democracy, and they illustrate a troubling deregulatory trend in campaign finance-related court decisions. Additionally, an unknown amount of foreign money continues to be spent in our political system as subsidiaries of foreign-based corporations and hostile foreign actors sometimes connected to nation-States work to influence our elections.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/3" id="H3F359A7E95BA4C128747B4E083CDCE6B" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>The Supreme Court’s misinterpretation of the Constitution to empower monied interests at the expense of the American people in elections has seriously eroded over 100 years of congressional action to promote fairness and protect elections from the toxic influence of money.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/4" id="HDC85869CFD38463AA85A1B0102442002" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>In 1907, Congress passed the Tillman Act in response to the concentration of corporate power in the post-Civil War Gilded Age. The Act prohibited corporations from making contributions in connection with Federal elections, aiming “not merely to prevent the subversion of the integrity of the electoral process [but] … to sustain the active, alert responsibility of the individual citizen in a democracy for the wise conduct of government”.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/5" id="H1FCFDF93130446B19E62CB0D0195DCE7" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>By 1910, Congress began passing disclosure requirements and campaign expenditure limits, and dozens of States passed corrupt practices Acts to prohibit corporate spending in elections. States also enacted campaign spending limits, and some States limited the amount that people could contribute to campaigns.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/6" id="HDCE4BEEEB57C446B889BF9477586CA62" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>In 1947, the Taft-Hartley Act prohibited corporations and unions from making campaign contributions or other expenditures to influence elections. In 1962, a Presidential commission on election spending recommended spending limits and incentives to increase small contributions from more people.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/7" id="HF0995D77169243D88FA9F87E5CD1AB5E" class="indent1"><num value="7">(7) </num><content>The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), as amended in 1974, required disclosure of contributions and expenditures, imposed contribution and expenditure limits for individuals and groups, set spending limits for campaigns, candidates, and groups, implemented a public funding system for Presidential campaigns, and created the Federal Election Commission to oversee and enforce the new rules.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/8" id="H2212949FA02244EABAE57CF0AAE0DCC3" class="indent1"><num value="8">(8) </num><content>In the wake of <i>Citizens United</i> and other damaging Federal court decisions, Americans have witnessed an explosion of outside spending in elections. Outside spending increased nearly 900 percent between the 2008 and 2016 Presidential election years. Indeed, the 2018 elections once again made clear the overwhelming political power of wealthy special interests, to the tune of over $5,000,000,000. And as political entities adapt to a post-<i>Citizens United</i>, post-<i>McCutcheon</i> landscape, these trends are getting worse, as evidenced by the experience in the 2018 midterm congressional elections, where outside spending more than doubled from the previous midterm cycle.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/9" id="HF980E16411294A1AAE304B101F3C342A" class="indent1"><num value="9">(9) </num><content>The torrent of money flowing into our political system has a profound effect on the democratic process for everyday Americans, whose voices and policy preferences are increasingly being drowned out by those of wealthy special interests. The more campaign cash from wealthy special interests can flood our elections, the more policies that favor those interests are reflected in the national political agenda. When it comes to policy preferences, our Nation’s wealthiest tend to have fundamentally different views than do average Americans when it comes to issues ranging from unemployment benefits to the minimum wage to health care coverage.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/10" id="HF2F09B80A6C742428FF56E198EE1D87D" class="indent1"><num value="10">(10) </num><content>The Court has tied the hands of Congress and the States, severely restricting them from setting reasonable limits on campaign spending. For example, the Court has held that only the Government’s interest in preventing quid pro quo corruption, like bribery, or the appearance of such corruption, can justify limits on campaign contributions. More broadly, the Court has severely curtailed attempts to reduce the ability of the Nation’s wealthiest and most powerful to skew our democracy in their favor by buying outsized influence in our elections. Because this distortion of the Constitution has prevented truly meaningful regulation or reform of the way we finance elections in America, a constitutional amendment is needed to achieve a democracy for all the people.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/11" id="H4704ED74C4E54D46BAF34265C3DCA2E5" class="indent1"><num value="11">(11) </num><content>Since the landmark <i>Citizens United</i> decision, 19 States and nearly 800 municipalities, including large cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Philadelphia, have gone on record supporting a constitutional amendment. Transcending political leanings and geographic location, voters in States and municipalities across the country that have placed amendment questions on the ballot have routinely supported these initiatives by considerably large margins.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/12" id="H4FBDEE48F5BD4FAF8CC46170FDC16E9B" class="indent1"><num value="12">(12) </num><content>At the same time millions of Americans have signed petitions, marched, called their Members of Congress, written letters to the editor, and otherwise demonstrated their public support for a constitutional amendment to overturn <i>Citizens United</i> that will allow Congress to reign in the outsized influence of unchecked money in politics. Dozens of organizations, representing tens of millions of individuals, have come together in a shared strategy of supporting such an amendment.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stA/s5001/13" id="H9ED13AEC6A034341BC2448CC13FCD6F9" class="indent1"><num value="13">(13) </num><content>In order to protect the integrity of democracy and the electoral process and to ensure political equality for all, the Constitution should be amended so that Congress and the States may regulate and set limits on the raising and spending of money to influence elections and may distinguish between natural persons and artificial entities, like corporations, that are created by law, including by prohibiting such artificial entities from spending money to influence elections.</content></paragraph></section></subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB" id="H7A90D12C23064104AC09DFE0B7D69676"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Congressional Elections</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/s5100" id="H3669ACD4BE7C48F5BDD4309FDF433E65"><num value="5100">SEC. 5100. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Government By the People Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1" id="H13CEC2F859664816A42783F92AFE31B3"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>MY VOICE VOUCHER PILOT PROGRAM</heading>
|
||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101" id="HB3369FB740504A1CA3582F5639CA659C"><num value="5101">SEC. 5101. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF PILOT PROGRAM.</heading>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/a" id="H7B065EB434C941E8BE18C962281E2C2E" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>The Federal Election Commission (hereafter in this part referred to as the “Commission”) shall establish a pilot program under which the Commission shall select 3 eligible States to operate a voucher pilot program which is described in section 5102 during the program operation period.</content></subsection>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b" id="H6C29E900F17047A88FE694D26728A085" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Eligibility of States</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A State is eligible to be selected to operate a voucher pilot program under this part if, not later than 180 days after the beginning of the program application period, the State submits to the Commission an application containing—</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/1" id="HB675AC0D7FA14D1EB731E4E80427C944" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>information and assurances that the State will operate a voucher program which contains the elements described in section 5102(a);</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/2" id="HD07385FFB54F48209E5C483465C456D6" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>information and assurances that the State will establish fraud prevention mechanisms described in section 5102(b);</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/3" id="H4545A7D126CA4026A79C096F9567063A" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>information and assurances that the State will establish a commission to oversee and implement the program as described in section 5102(c);</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/4" id="HCAC8E6803B7044E8A81FE372029A4CAD" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>information and assurances that the State will carry out a public information campaign as described in section 5102(d);</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/5" id="HA8670D7804264B6E95A0CC924E990079" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>information and assurances that the State will submit reports as required under section 5103; and</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/b/6" id="HC3C7D3EDE26249E6A27AD5D5FEAA51BE" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/c" id="H4E064557458C46C788CE0B832F3B68F1" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Selection of Participating States</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/c/1" id="H9AB051E68D654E659A60F267607FBB2C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 1 year after the beginning of the program application period, the Commission shall select the 3 States which will operate voucher pilot programs under this part.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/c/2" id="H1B6134E7C45749CEA99D69D9C3B2CAB5" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Criteria</inline>.—</heading><content>In selecting States for the operation of the voucher pilot programs under this part, the Commission shall apply such criteria and metrics as the Commission considers appropriate to determine the ability of a State to operate the program successfully, and shall attempt to select States in a variety of geographic regions and with a variety of political party preferences.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/c/3" id="HFE1422F94318491CB8812C487C257868" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No supermajority required for selection</inline>.—</heading><content>The selection of States by the Commission under this subsection shall require the approval of only half of the Members of the Commission.</content></paragraph></subsection>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/d" id="H92E6687323D04974B93E2B86F5B27426" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Duties of States During Program Preparation Period</inline>.—</heading><content>During the program preparation period, each State selected to operate a voucher pilot program under this part shall take such actions as may be necessary to ensure that the State will be ready to operate the program during the program operation period, and shall complete such actions not later than 90 days before the beginning of the program operation period.</content></subsection>
|
||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/e" id="HB3E4F0C80CCD4C86917E28A3F5DE0143" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Termination</inline>.—</heading><content>Each voucher pilot program under this part shall terminate as of the first day after the program operation period.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f" id="HED49F80570854EF8857E1F77574B5EFE" class="indent0"><num value="f">(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reimbursement of Costs</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/1" id="H05000E2CEFE24DF79B37B142E4DE1BEA" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reimbursement</inline>.—</heading><content>Upon receiving the report submitted by a State under section 5103(a) with respect to an election cycle, the Commission shall transmit a payment to the State in an amount equal to the reasonable costs incurred by the State in operating the voucher pilot program under this part during the cycle.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/2" id="HA05F22DD6A4A47E3A33BA5F1EDC5EEA9" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Source of funds</inline>.—</heading><content>Payments to States under the program shall be made using amounts in the Freedom From Influence Fund under section 541 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as added by section 5111), hereafter referred to as the “Fund”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3" id="H14EFB3820F5B4924BB2BFF8172C90792" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory reduction of payments in case of insufficient amounts in freedom from influence fund</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/A" id="H93C0F2F6EB7B478B83C32A830E69F16E" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Advance audits by commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days before the first day of each program operation period, the Commission shall—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/A/i" id="H3FB36CD3E1274018A9E601D6EC118EFF" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>audit the Fund to determine whether, after first making payments to participating candidates under title V of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (as added by section 5111), the amounts remaining in the Fund will be sufficient to make payments to States under this part in the amounts provided under this subsection; and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/A/ii" id="HCE9871A6837E49D48A080476053FBC2E" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>submit a report to Congress describing the results of the audit.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/B" id="HF4F8756DE9004560A850E500E41EDB02" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reductions in amount of payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/B/i" id="H2A746A444D4A431CB69D61D624D5E088" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic reduction on pro rata basis</inline>.—</heading><content>If, on the basis of the audit described in subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that the amount anticipated to be available in the Fund with respect to an election cycle involved is not, or may not be, sufficient to make payments to States under this part in the full amount provided under this subsection, the Commission shall reduce each amount which would otherwise be paid to a State under this subsection by such pro rata amount as may be necessary to ensure that the aggregate amount of payments anticipated to be made with respect to the cycle will not exceed the amount anticipated to be available for such payments in the Fund with respect to such cycle.</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/B/ii" id="HE83C95D3DF2D4B34B0F22F7B92F1D192" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restoration of reductions in case of availability of sufficient funds during election cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>If, after reducing the amounts paid to States with respect to an election cycle under clause (i), the Commission determines that there are sufficient amounts in the Fund to restore the amount by which such payments were reduced (or any portion thereof), to the extent that such amounts are available, the Commission may make a payment on a pro rata basis to each such State with respect to the cycle in the amount by which such State’s payments were reduced under clause (i) (or any portion thereof, as the case may be).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3/B/iii" id="HB449054C03F04958BE64EA0B91DDD152" class="indent3"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No use of amounts from other sources</inline>.—</heading><content>In any case in which the Commission determines that there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to make payments to States under this part, moneys shall not be made available from any other source for the purpose of making such payments.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5101/f/3" id="H03C201A5279D42D5BD9E5504F465779A" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Cap on amount of payment</inline>.—</heading><content>The aggregate amount of payments made to any State with respect to any program operation period may not exceed $10,000,000. If the State determines that the maximum payment amount under this paragraph with respect to the program operation period involved is not, or may not be, sufficient to cover the reasonable costs incurred by the State in operating the program under this part for such period, the State shall reduce the amount of the voucher provided to each qualified individual by such pro rata amount as may be necessary to ensure that the reasonable costs incurred by the State in operating the program will not exceed the amount paid to the State with respect to such period.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102" id="H1B1550CB023B40B68EB6B2520A1E0F96"><num value="5102">SEC. 5102. </num><heading>VOUCHER PROGRAM DESCRIBED.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a" id="H84047625B731458191B19E70C31258D3" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">General Elements of Program</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/1" id="H487094EB8BE8420B94415D478A8C2C08" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Elements described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The elements of a voucher pilot program operated by a State under this part are as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/1/A" id="HD54B0F3A61DC4156B9827F25E1D48603" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The State shall provide each qualified individual upon the individual’s request with a voucher worth $25 to be known as a “My Voice Voucher” during the election cycle which will be assigned a routing number and which at the option of the individual will be provided in either paper or electronic form.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/1/B" id="H3509F0E334664838AE7145086B13CFC0" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Using the routing number assigned to the My Voice Voucher, the individual may submit the My Voice Voucher in either electronic or paper form to qualified candidates for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress and allocate such portion of the value of the My Voice Voucher in increments of $5 as the individual may select to any such candidate.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/1/C" id="H5172AB1D7F8446E48447E509106B5860" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>If the candidate transmits the My Voice Voucher to the Commission, the Commission shall pay the candidate the portion of the value of the My Voice Voucher that the individual allocated to the candidate, which shall be considered a contribution by the individual to the candidate for purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/2" id="H278E47C68A4847F2983D1CA624F6BDFC" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Designation of qualified individuals</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), a “qualified individual” with respect to a State means an individual—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/2/A" id="HEBAE498E050A4BCCA01AB9716A12C679" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>who is a resident of the State;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/2/B" id="H552801366379416DB446C030D5CED4D8" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>who will be of voting age as of the date of the election for the candidate to whom the individual submits a My Voice Voucher; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/2/C" id="H84191B1EBAD64F08B5C172E31A27C14F" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>who is not prohibited under Federal law from making contributions to candidates for election for Federal office.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/a/3" id="H91BE01C258B846DDB3C2D5B12D748CFE" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment as contribution to candidate</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the submission of a My Voice Voucher to a candidate by an individual shall be treated as a contribution to the candidate by the individual in the amount of the portion of the value of the Voucher that the individual allocated to the candidate.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/b" id="H67EDFCBB29E146ED84C83D5C1CC2953B" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Fraud Prevention Mechanism</inline>.—</heading><content>In addition to the elements described in subsection (a), a State operating a voucher pilot program under this part shall permit an individual to revoke a My Voice Voucher not later than 2 days after submitting the My Voice Voucher to a candidate.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/c" id="H3E2744B5C2F5476396E720EA32EA2A89" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Oversight Commission</inline>.—</heading><content>In addition to the elements described in subsection (a), a State operating a voucher pilot program under this part shall establish a commission or designate an existing entity to oversee and implement the program in the State, except that no such commission or entity may be comprised of elected officials.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5102/d" id="H4AF81D049FE6445C868A9C95F42B8B40" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Public Information Campaign</inline>.—</heading><content>In addition to the elements described in subsection (a), a State operating a voucher pilot program under this part shall carry out a public information campaign to disseminate awareness of the program among qualified individuals.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5103" id="H5DB07E5687C54EDFA85EA83C903DE276"><num value="5103">SEC. 5103. </num><heading>REPORTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5103/a" id="H850C8BF3A46F4627856BF809BAFD69AC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Preliminary Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the first election cycle of the program operation period, a State which operates a voucher pilot program under this part shall submit a report to the Commission analyzing the operation and effectiveness of the program during the cycle and including such other information as the Commission may require.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5103/b" id="H99269E8D4FF249459DEB42ECF48A9E7E" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Final Report</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 6 months after the end of the program operation period, the State shall submit a final report to the Commission analyzing the operation and effectiveness of the program and including such other information as the Commission may require.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5103/c" id="H7154743898B94F9AB91177AA9B6FBC4F" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Report by Commission</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the end of the first election cycle which begins after the program operation period, the Commission shall submit a report to Congress which summarizes and analyzes the results of the voucher pilot program, and shall include in the report such recommendations as the Commission considers appropriate regarding the expansion of the pilot program to all States and territories, along with such other recommendations and other information as the Commission considers appropriate.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104" id="HC4DAFF84C3A144BBB85F3DDAFDA85340"><num value="5104">SEC. 5104. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104/a" id="H4D5CAFC893EB419E80B927FF8DFF31CF" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Election Cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>In this part, the term “<term>election cycle</term>” means the period beginning on the day after the date of the most recent regularly scheduled general election for Federal office and ending on the date of the next regularly scheduled general election for Federal office.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104/b" id="H11D58B6B37604B6BAB49BCC075C1BB56" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definitions Relating to Periods</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this part, the following definitions apply:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104/b/1" id="HD623401353D744FCB027719424C021D9" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Program application period</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>program application period</term>” means the first election cycle which begins after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104/b/2" id="HB3188740EE884120A5ACD0F7943E47E5" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Program preparation period</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>program preparation period</term>” means the first election cycle which begins after the program application period.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt1/s5104/b/3" id="H01F6649C857B4A0E8F71EA170DFDE8A9" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Program operation period</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>program operation period</term>” means the first 2 election cycles which begin after the program preparation period.</content></paragraph></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2" id="HAFA4279DEC5246FF9B4BE349D89B6565"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>SMALL DOLLAR FINANCING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5111" id="H51E99C39477A417C8D14CDE909972827"><num value="5111">SEC. 5111. </num><heading>BENEFITS AND ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR CANDIDATES.</heading><content>The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/etseq">52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:
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<title id="H0395DF0B6D2947C8B516C3484944954B"><num value="V">“TITLE V—</num><heading class="inline">SMALL DOLLAR FINANCING OF CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS</heading>
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<subtitle id="HB9F82B6AAEFF4E86BB6D9D30625ADBE0"><num value="A">“Subtitle A—</num><heading>Benefits</heading>
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<section id="H40F493D4F1AA4AB2A3DBDED9172C294A"><num value="501">“SEC. 501. </num><heading>BENEFITS FOR PARTICIPATING CANDIDATES.</heading>
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<subsection id="HC27A8776997E4E08B4787005CCF2A338" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate for election to the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress is certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to an election for such office, the candidate shall be entitled to payments as provided under this title.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H43EB2DBD0FFA472F88F722385947E97B" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of Payment</inline>.—</heading><content>The amount of a payment made under this title shall be equal to 600 percent of the amount of qualified small dollar contributions received by the candidate since the most recent payment made to the candidate under this title during the election cycle, without regard to whether or not the candidate received any of the contributions before, during, or after the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period applicable to the candidate under section 511(c).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H33666C93CCDE48659FA560076DA5726A" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limit on Aggregate Amount of Payments</inline>.—</heading><content>The aggregate amount of payments made to a participating candidate with respect to an election cycle under this title may not exceed 50 percent of the average of the 20 greatest amounts of disbursements made by the authorized committees of any winning candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress during the most recent election cycle, rounded to the nearest $100,000.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H8536C586599B4BF5A6A75A26F9E27D56"><num value="502">“SEC. 502. </num><heading>PROCEDURES FOR MAKING PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H90498169C6CD47E0B81767CE24E09DDE" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall make a payment under section 501 to a candidate who is certified as a participating candidate upon receipt from the candidate of a request for a payment which includes—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HC5F63346BCE44235AE9B4908728796F7" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>a statement of the number and amount of qualified small dollar contributions received by the candidate since the most recent payment made to the candidate under this title during the election cycle;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF70D5F126DE6461592EB5F65699DD5E8" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>a statement of the amount of the payment the candidate anticipates receiving with respect to the request;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H77ADBD2F934F4098966E1882A0F2F80A" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>a statement of the total amount of payments the candidate has received under this title as of the date of the statement; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H8B500EA8C838425B9175A52702C551A3" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H34EE27D513264A909E61A663A942A3F9" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restrictions on Submission of Requests</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate may not submit a request under subsection (a) unless each of the following applies:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HD8D35E538D7E40BD80BA09EF786D1FD2" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The amount of the qualified small dollar contributions in the statement referred to in subsection (a)(1) is equal to or greater than $5,000, unless the request is submitted during the 30-day period which ends on the date of a general election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H67280CC97E6746A090F8C826078513E2" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The candidate did not receive a payment under this title during the 7-day period which ends on the date the candidate submits the request.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HA202A01A4D334BF990E34030C7E9391D" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Time of Payment</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall, in coordination with the Secretary of the Treasury, take such steps as may be necessary to ensure that the Secretary is able to make payments under this section from the Treasury not later than 2 business days after the receipt of a request submitted under subsection (a).</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H24F2DCFE0F274475A9361E374330899F"><num value="503">“SEC. 503. </num><heading>USE OF FUNDS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H2A41181D24084C15B323114C7045E690" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Funds for Authorized Campaign Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><content>A candidate shall use payments made under this title, including payments provided with respect to a previous election cycle which are withheld from remittance to the Commission in accordance with section 524(a)(2), only for making direct payments for the receipt of goods and services which constitute authorized expenditures (as determined in accordance with title III) in connection with the election cycle involved.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H1E972F280B9A448BABE34867EEB756F9" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting Use of Funds for Legal Expenses, Fines, or Penalties</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding title III, a candidate may not use payments made under this title for the payment of expenses incurred in connection with any action, claim, or other matter before the Commission or before any court, hearing officer, arbitrator, or other dispute resolution entity, or for the payment of any fine or civil monetary penalty.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H89F2AB3CD4844BEEBA3CDA60E5FA6343"><num value="504">“SEC. 504. </num><heading>QUALIFIED SMALL DOLLAR CONTRIBUTIONS DESCRIBED.</heading>
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<subsection role="definitions" id="HD2CE914F8AD74D34A8BCEE9C0E101B95" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this title, the term ‘<term>qualified small dollar contribution</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate and the authorized committees of a candidate, a contribution that meets the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H5AEF9AF506474BE9A61799E8D2B6D4B0" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><chapeau>The contribution is in an amount that is—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H607D753F29FE43F291E0FA4244920AF9" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>not less than $1; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H4A51BEABE5004E3CAFD3B30A72FB114D" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>not more than $200.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H362B7324819B461DA4E3718FF4D43B09" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2)</num><subparagraph id="H1ECFD8B208F94924A87086A3CBB56B95" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>The contribution is made directly by an individual to the candidate or an authorized committee of the candidate and is not—</chapeau>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HD32D28A4109A49EB9E8D6FC7337CB03E" class="indent2"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>forwarded from the individual making the contribution to the candidate or committee by another person; or</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HEBF0D4ADF1C74200951B3A72DD882DF9" class="indent2"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>received by the candidate or committee with the knowledge that the contribution was made at the request, suggestion, or recommendation of another person.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H2C2D395D05794AC3B2C3E1FB6F0FC177" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>In this paragraph—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HFBB15995FB1A4D5E9013158961E8F5B4" class="indent2"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the term ‘<term>person</term>’ does not include an individual (other than an individual described in section 304(i)(7) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971), a political committee of a political party, or any political committee which is not a separate segregated fund described in section 316(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and which does not make contributions or independent expenditures, does not engage in lobbying activity under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (<ref href="/us/usc/t2/s1601/etseq">2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.</ref>), and is not established by, controlled by, or affiliated with a registered lobbyist under such Act, an agent of a registered lobbyist under such Act, or an organization which retains or employs a registered lobbyist under such Act; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HEE9FF04DA69C4D8CA2F3BA8C3A37FA02" class="indent2"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>a contribution is not ‘made at the request, suggestion, or recommendation of another person’ solely on the grounds that the contribution is made in response to information provided to the individual making the contribution by any person, so long as the candidate or authorized committee does not know the identity of the person who provided the information to such individual.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HA6E99DE57A0F4B97ABD1FE8FA49B90AE" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The individual who makes the contribution does not make contributions to the candidate or the authorized committees of the candidate with respect to the election involved in an aggregate amount that exceeds the amount described in paragraph (1)(B), or any contribution to the candidate or the authorized committees of the candidate with respect to the election involved that otherwise is not a qualified small dollar contribution.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H0DEF7477BA644615997538A2FA75D147" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of My Voice Vouchers</inline>.—</heading><content>Any payment received by a candidate and the authorized committees of a candidate which consists of a My Voice Voucher under the Government By the People Act of 2019 shall be considered a qualified small dollar contribution for purposes of this title, so long as the individual making the payment meets the requirements of paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE75B7DBC9AC04C6C84F7DB216A2118E1" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restriction on Subsequent Contributions</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HABD8999313704575B1BFC2ADA314C407" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting donor from making subsequent nonqualified contributions during election cycle</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H7EE48A166D4D4F31BD790EAC8A6584A3" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>An individual who makes a qualified small dollar contribution to a candidate or the authorized committees of a candidate with respect to an election may not make any subsequent contribution to such candidate or the authorized committees of such candidate with respect to the election cycle which is not a qualified small dollar contribution.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H940B8C59C4AB4684B1C46B55A70E94F4" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for contributions to candidates who voluntarily withdraw from participation during qualifying period</inline>.—</heading><content>Subparagraph (A) does not apply with respect to a contribution made to a candidate who, during the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period described in section 511(c), submits a statement to the Commission under section 513(c) to voluntarily withdraw from participating in the program under this title.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H329CB3A78D204B3BB2172136706A35AE" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of subsequent nonqualified contributions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If, notwithstanding the prohibition described in paragraph (1), an individual who makes a qualified small dollar contribution to a candidate or the authorized committees of a candidate with respect to an election makes a subsequent contribution to such candidate or the authorized committees of such candidate with respect to the election which is prohibited under paragraph (1) because it is not a qualified small dollar contribution, the candidate may take one of the following actions:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HD5AD96D4E3654EB0B44A86FB028902E8" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Not later than 2 weeks after receiving the contribution, the candidate may return the subsequent contribution to the individual. In the case of a subsequent contribution which is not a qualified small dollar contribution because the contribution fails to meet the requirements of paragraph (3) of subsection (a) (relating to the aggregate amount of contributions made to the candidate or the authorized committees of the candidate by the individual making the contribution), the candidate may return an amount equal to the difference between the amount of the subsequent contribution and the amount described in paragraph (1)(B) of subsection (a).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDCD58015E55E40B6BAF3F0669241177B" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The candidate may retain the subsequent contribution, so long as not later than 2 weeks after receiving the subsequent contribution, the candidate remits to the Commission for deposit in the Freedom From Influence Fund under section 541 an amount equal to any payments received by the candidate under this title which are attributable to the qualified small dollar contribution made by the individual involved.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB108DB581B2E4817B9A0370C6FD35AB3" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on ability to make multiple contributions</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit an individual from making multiple qualified small dollar contributions to any candidate or any number of candidates, so long as each contribution meets each of the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H26E5AED707E54730AD74A0D74E87F45E" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notification Requirements for Candidates</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H1B4D2729F7B24FCB8554E2693558337E" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Notification</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each authorized committee of a candidate who seeks to be a participating candidate under this title shall provide the following information in any materials for the solicitation of contributions, including any internet site through which individuals may make contributions to the committee:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HF5685863098E4581A2948357DFC67068" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>A statement that if the candidate is certified as a participating candidate under this title, the candidate will receive matching payments in an amount which is based on the total amount of qualified small dollar contributions received.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H2120B0EFF7054F7AB0233C1098BC223E" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>A statement that a contribution which meets the requirements set forth in subsection (a) shall be treated as a qualified small dollar contribution under this title.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF13542B2D42C41E9B7CDBADB20E1FCD3" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>A statement that if a contribution is treated as qualified small dollar contribution under this title, the individual who makes the contribution may not make any contribution to the candidate or the authorized committees of the candidate during the election cycle which is not a qualified small dollar contribution.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF1646E82630C49CB9C0320A404BF9C86" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Alternative methods of meeting requirements</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An authorized committee may meet the requirements of paragraph (1)—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H3E7A08DE4C1848248F570722E026EDEB" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>by including the information described in paragraph (1) in the receipt provided under section 512(b)(3) to a person making a qualified small dollar contribution; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDA2A50D7B0A34A4F917DC577BF37436F" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>by modifying the information it provides to persons making contributions which is otherwise required under title III (including information it provides through the internet).</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle id="HB085D59317CE4815A3F81B1C63D3C629"><num value="B">“Subtitle B—</num><heading>Eligibility and Certification</heading>
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<section id="HA568FB6CD5854387AC763AF2174A9908"><num value="511">“SEC. 511. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY.</heading>
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<subsection id="HB1E6F3DFF3214EF0B9331E5929F949D1" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress is eligible to be certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to an election if the candidate meets the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HA23140D5923C42B397B74980EE84514C" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The candidate files with the Commission a statement of intent to seek certification as a participating candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HC590FFC714434B9A85607B6FB3D6F32E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The candidate meets the qualifying requirements of section 512.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4FB4567A86A5472BAB46337D72252D64" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The candidate files with the Commission a statement certifying that the authorized committees of the candidate meet the requirements of section 504(d).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB5C37249704B4465BCB0CB853F15B091" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><chapeau>Not later than the last day of the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period, the candidate files with the Commission an affidavit signed by the candidate and the treasurer of the candidate’s principal campaign committee declaring that the candidate—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H0B55C3B2FC014D64A2BD8032E996FF8C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>has complied and, if certified, will comply with the contribution and expenditure requirements of section 521;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H409C426DC0254CEB86657E3877A104C8" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>if certified, will run only as a participating candidate for all elections for the office that such candidate is seeking during that election cycle; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H56BFB65BCEF748DE925D0C5FBEE22B08" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>has either qualified or will take steps to qualify under State law to be on the ballot.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HA231BA6AD15D4A7A966C1CA49224FF13" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">General Election</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding subsection (a), a candidate shall not be eligible to be certified as a participating candidate under this title for a general election or a general runoff election unless the candidate’s party nominated the candidate to be placed on the ballot for the general election or the candidate is otherwise qualified to be on the ballot under State law.</content></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" id="H659DA4F96C154DB1A8B4613A9F06B9A0" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Small Dollar Democracy Qualifying Period Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>The term ‘<term>Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period</term>’ means, with respect to any candidate for an office, the 180-day period (during the election cycle for such office) which begins on the date on which the candidate files a statement of intent under section 511(a)(1), except that such period may not continue after the date that is 30 days before the date of the general election for the office.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="HFF3AABB43ECC44CDA0E75BD675741CA9"><num value="512">“SEC. 512. </num><heading>QUALIFYING REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H36B39B8867464C3E8A69FF2D498F9D16" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Receipt of Qualified Small Dollar Contributions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress meets the requirement of this section if, during the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period described in section 511(c), each of the following occurs:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H06330DD6AEC34AC98B26739EA1ED050D" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>Not fewer than 1,000 individuals make a qualified small dollar contribution to the candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H051E725B2A4741A68D4203218158EA25" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The candidate obtains a total dollar amount of qualified small dollar contributions which is equal to or greater than $50,000.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7BB6B714EF5B4B0E87EA028589AEF148" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirements Relating to Receipt of Qualified Small Dollar Contribution</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each qualified small dollar contribution—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HF81F9B57A6D74F87910B316AF50BE4C5" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>may be made by means of a personal check, money order, debit card, credit card, electronic payment account, or any other method deemed appropriate by the Commission;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H68D03124C98F4FB2B6011292BC382748" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>shall be accompanied by a signed statement (or, in the case of a contribution made online or through other electronic means, an electronic equivalent) containing the contributor’s name and address; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H11531566BADA49B4AF336195403EFA9A" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>shall be acknowledged by a receipt that is sent to the contributor with a copy (in paper or electronic form) kept by the candidate for the Commission.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H58375B0B4E6149C9B4D595F764E57CE6" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Verification of Contributions</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall establish procedures for the auditing and verification of the contributions received and expenditures made by participating candidates under this title, including procedures for random audits, to ensure that such contributions and expenditures meet the requirements of this title.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H861431CFBFB0464AB50962E0D2CB9499"><num value="513">“SEC. 513. </num><heading>CERTIFICATION.</heading>
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<subsection id="H41C3534A4028422DAC4DB9BE25B336AF" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline and Notification</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H1BC0960965614AC987C2E7DE04C773C5" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 5 business days after a candidate files an affidavit under section 511(a)(4), the Commission shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HECC79F0DDA394D688C9F03709A7D0121" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>determine whether or not the candidate meets the requirements for certification as a participating candidate;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H311D645EBDB047EB8E294EBD79190C40" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>if the Commission determines that the candidate meets such requirements, certify the candidate as a participating candidate; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1B68EF7250FE4AA9B9F8AFCF18ECF99D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>notify the candidate of the Commission’s determination.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE3AAD934E62946B4AB74D1759DA275E5" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deemed certification for all elections in election cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commission certifies a candidate as a participating candidate with respect to the first election of the election cycle involved, the Commission shall be deemed to have certified the candidate as a participating candidate with respect to all subsequent elections of the election cycle.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H4C1A805B466249AD91F58C83E513CFFF" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Revocation of Certification</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H56A13A7E884846D299A56E71D206372D" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall revoke a certification under subsection (a) if—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H653C1A9928D644C5BB5E93A41B98B2B0" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a candidate fails to qualify to appear on the ballot at any time after the date of certification (other than a candidate certified as a participating candidate with respect to a primary election who fails to qualify to appear on the ballot for a subsequent election in that election cycle);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H20157409A3FA42BD9CBB1907C8F33D5E" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>a candidate ceases to be a candidate for the office involved, as determined on the basis of an official announcement by an authorized committee of the candidate or on the basis of a reasonable determination by the Commission; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCDE4684D0A5E4B8A8E243A976AA1BE32" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>a candidate otherwise fails to comply with the requirements of this title, including any regulatory requirements prescribed by the Commission.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6A0C840F7FA44A5F8A689C31B6C2B510" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Existence of criminal sanction</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall revoke a certification under subsection (a) if a penalty is assessed against the candidate under section 309(d) with respect to the election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE994F976C4744378A9E7B588849788A3" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effect of revocation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a candidate’s certification is revoked under this subsection—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H0C0B7A893F9D41B0B8A464F8639DA57A" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the candidate may not receive payments under this title during the remainder of the election cycle involved; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H64947F8D09BE414CAE494944193E7ABC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>in the case of a candidate whose certification is revoked pursuant to subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1)—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H5F2EA8F784094B448219F7F43BD039EA" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the candidate shall repay to the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541 an amount equal to the payments received under this title with respect to the election cycle involved plus interest (at a rate determined by the Commission on the basis of an appropriate annual percentage rate for the month involved) on any such amount received; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H826465CD884246E8A2DA209E861AC86B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the candidate may not be certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to the next election cycle.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HCFB39EEA296844BF81850B8E89183C65" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting participation in future elections for candidates with multiple revocations</inline>.—</heading><content>If the Commission revokes the certification of an individual as a participating candidate under this title pursuant to subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) a total of 3 times, the individual may not be certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to any subsequent election.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H0FCE27E96B674FA099D30974A96A6C94" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Voluntary Withdrawal From Participating During Qualifying Period</inline>.—</heading><content>At any time during the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period described in section 511(c), a candidate may withdraw from participation in the program under this title by submitting to the Commission a statement of withdrawal (without regard to whether or not the Commission has certified the candidate as a participating candidate under this title as of the time the candidate submits such statement), so long as the candidate has not submitted a request for payment under section 502.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF17F67705F1A4BB29D4312C763572BB7" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Participating Candidate Defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this title, a ‘participating candidate’ means a candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress who is certified under this section as eligible to receive benefits under this title.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle id="H81EA1F73FFE744F78B44BBEA77CB4C24"><num value="C">“Subtitle C—</num><heading>Requirements for Candidates Certified as Participating Candidates</heading>
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<section id="H9FE1CC792D34480893D9A13134053877"><num value="521">“SEC. 521. </num><heading>CONTRIBUTION AND EXPENDITURE REQUIREMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H45D136865DC94ACAAF918AFCF3F7DD44" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitted Sources of Contributions and Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Except as provided in subsection (c), a participating candidate with respect to an election shall, with respect to all elections occurring during the election cycle for the office involved, accept no contributions from any source and make no expenditures from any amounts, other than the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HBE2D741EBDD54FDC8E5B81DCA715B6C6" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>Qualified small dollar contributions.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H3A59747AEE2742CE90897F08A7FED53E" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>Payments under this title.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2E14CC2E08AC491BB058E0D2E157C6E2" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>Contributions from political committees established and maintained by a national or State political party, subject to the applicable limitations of section 315.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HCCE9672AFB264E3297A48FDD39A6ACDC" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>Subject to subsection (b), personal funds of the candidate or of any immediate family member of the candidate (other than funds received through qualified small dollar contributions).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H405D1D55ECD24B87AB2C5F9F66EB7553" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>Contributions from individuals who are otherwise permitted to make contributions under this Act, subject to the applicable limitations of section 315, except that the aggregate amount of contributions a participating candidate may accept from any individual with respect to any election during the election cycle may not exceed $1,000.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H1F6A72537412405A9CD4105809704302" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>Contributions from multicandidate political committees, subject to the applicable limitations of section 315.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H75CEE9A4C6C84E2FAEDE36E85919672B" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special Rules for Personal Funds</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H18228C67A9FC4DDFB40400FC92C08081" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limit on amount</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate who is certified as a participating candidate may use personal funds (including personal funds of any immediate family member of the candidate) so long as—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H23778E84BDA44840AFE3CDCE258782F7" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the aggregate amount used with respect to the election cycle (including any period of the cycle occurring prior to the candidate’s certification as a participating candidate) does not exceed $50,000; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCDC31330B943455EA4D25690879779DC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the funds are used only for making direct payments for the receipt of goods and services which constitute authorized expenditures in connection with the election cycle involved.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H921681ACB3F74F88AFCA2FFBD3A25578" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Immediate family member defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In this subsection, the term ‘<term>immediate family member</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H0771ED9CDE934C5D96070F99259AD9B1" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the candidate’s spouse;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCECD1D3642EF42A1BB7D7C76407A40EB" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>a child, stepchild, parent, grandparent, brother, half-brother, sister, or half-sister of the candidate or the candidate’s spouse; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HFFA25448FF254877A65A3326290EF680" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>the spouse of any person described in subparagraph (B).</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HDA4D51112D8048DEA944AAEB82D34F10" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exceptions</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H289EE167DB4944DC9E78D5B0845344DF" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for contributions received prior to filing of statement of intent</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate who has accepted contributions that are not described in subsection (a) is not in violation of subsection (a), but only if all such contributions are—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HC6DE448E46024E2A83A559E084DCA2A7" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>returned to the contributor;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HA68B1FC78D5346D0960CF0AF85101756" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>submitted to the Commission for deposit in the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD91573FC5BA94D1790B920A03A22F174" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>spent in accordance with paragraph (2).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H77AD5981467B46B883ECABF03E0466DF" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for expenditures made prior to filing of statement of intent</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate has made expenditures prior to the date the candidate files a statement of intent under section 511(a)(1) that the candidate is prohibited from making under subsection (a) or subsection (b), the candidate is not in violation of such subsection if the aggregate amount of the prohibited expenditures is less than the amount referred to in section 512(a)(2) (relating to the total dollar amount of qualified small dollar contributions which the candidate is required to obtain) which is applicable to the candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD2E4A678541A4802876C830F374AA756" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for campaign surpluses from a previous election</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding paragraph (1), unexpended contributions received by the candidate or an authorized committee of the candidate with respect to a previous election may be retained, but only if the candidate places the funds in escrow and refrains from raising additional funds for or spending funds from that account during the election cycle in which a candidate is a participating candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD0C322889B6D45438E11DA3EB90468EE" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for contributions received before the effective date of this title</inline>.—</heading><content>Contributions received and expenditures made by the candidate or an authorized committee of the candidate prior to the effective date of this title shall not constitute a violation of subsection (a) or (b). Unexpended contributions shall be treated the same as campaign surpluses under paragraph (3), and expenditures made shall count against the limit in paragraph (2).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE5ED7A48A28142A798C3B5A080978D40" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special Rule for Coordinated Party Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this section, a payment made by a political party in coordination with a participating candidate shall not be treated as a contribution to or as an expenditure made by the participating candidate.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7EF8B494CC5041F88F9925228F1FFB69" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition on Joint Fundraising Committees</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HEAE38A32046E40EE9F42BB55A8B66DCC" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition</inline>.—</heading><content>An authorized committee of a candidate who is certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to an election may not establish a joint fundraising committee with a political committee other than another authorized committee of the candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HD612F2EE64254BEF88243F2E30EEF953" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Status of existing committees for prior elections</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate established a joint fundraising committee described in paragraph (1) with respect to a prior election for which the candidate was not certified as a participating candidate under this title and the candidate does not terminate the committee, the candidate shall not be considered to be in violation of paragraph (1) so long as that joint fundraising committee does not receive any contributions or make any disbursements during the election cycle for which the candidate is certified as a participating candidate under this title.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H5B55AD1536D441548C20B4C537F70796" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition on Leadership PACs</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB3C4E997AF6D4F1CA732337071125E73" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition</inline>.—</heading><content>A candidate who is certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to an election may not associate with, establish, finance, maintain, or control a leadership PAC.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H67863A49539C48D797F313DD5154F2CC" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Status of existing leadership pacs</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate established, financed, maintained, or controlled a leadership PAC prior to being certified as a participating candidate under this title and the candidate does not terminate the leadership PAC, the candidate shall not be considered to be in violation of paragraph (1) so long as the leadership PAC does not receive any contributions or make any disbursements during the election cycle for which the candidate is certified as a participating candidate under this title.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H74428754C1394596A36EE89020043B0D" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Leadership pac defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this subsection, the term ‘<term>leadership PAC</term>’ has the meaning given such term in section 304(i)(8)(B).</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section id="H3092D056C21B45419382BC1948DC951F"><num value="522">“SEC. 522. </num><heading>ADMINISTRATION OF CAMPAIGN.</heading>
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<subsection id="HDCAF2A150C574C528F94552691A4CD99" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Separate Accounting for Various Permitted Contributions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Each authorized committee of a candidate certified as a participating candidate under this title—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H83F0E6C8C0BB4B5BB59406B7CCF57B45" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>shall provide for separate accounting of each type of contribution described in section 521(a) which is received by the committee; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HBC17756D9454446E9AFEDDD6D2AE0FCC" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>shall provide for separate accounting for the payments received under this title.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H3CDE35AC3F62459AA02B6BE47CCA0786" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Enhanced Disclosure of Information on Donors</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H2F9D17F8AE0C4E8F942DFB4795FEC430" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory identification of individuals making qualified small dollar contributions</inline>.—</heading><content>Each authorized committee of a participating candidate under this title shall elect, in accordance with section 304(b)(3)(A), to include in the reports the committee submits under section 304 the identification of each person who makes a qualified small dollar contribution to the committee.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4C2B09762A9146228D52AEF6121E0401" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory disclosure through internet</inline>.—</heading><content>Each authorized committee of a participating candidate under this title shall ensure that all information reported to the Commission under this Act with respect to contributions and expenditures of the committee is available to the public on the internet (whether through a site established for purposes of this subsection, a hyperlink on another public site of the committee, or a hyperlink on a report filed electronically with the Commission) in a searchable, sortable, and downloadable manner.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section id="HE0D10C9423B146AC887EFA3DAD4E45D3"><num value="523">“SEC. 523. </num><heading>PREVENTING UNNECESSARY SPENDING OF PUBLIC FUNDS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H378A34A5A85F4D82B70008715DA2A60B" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory Spending of Available Private Funds</inline>.—</heading><content>An authorized committee of a candidate certified as a participating candidate under this title may not make any expenditure of any payments received under this title in any amount unless the committee has made an expenditure in an equivalent amount of funds received by the committee which are described in paragraphs (1), (3), (4), (5), and (6) of section 521(a).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H7A4C36E91B244E84A0E81E279B9A102F" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limitation</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) applies to an authorized committee only to the extent that the funds referred to in such subsection are available to the committee at the time the committee makes an expenditure of a payment received under this title.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H495BF5EEC6774F6E868144FDD89EA8FF"><num value="524">“SEC. 524. </num><heading>REMITTING UNSPENT FUNDS AFTER ELECTION.</heading>
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<subsection id="H8A86F4D4653747D88CB23D94A02DDBD7" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Remittance Required</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than the date that is 180 days after the last election for which a candidate certified as a participating candidate qualifies to be on the ballot during the election cycle involved, such participating candidate shall remit to the Commission for deposit in the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541 an amount equal to the balance of the payments received under this title by the authorized committees of the candidate which remain unexpended as of such date.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HE69FE82F20094529BB2EADEE352973BE" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting Candidates Participating in Next Election Cycle to Retain Portion of Unspent Funds</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding subsection (a), a participating candidate may withhold not more than $100,000 from the amount required to be remitted under subsection (a) if the candidate files a signed affidavit with the Commission that the candidate will seek certification as a participating candidate with respect to the next election cycle, except that the candidate may not use any portion of the amount withheld until the candidate is certified as a participating candidate with respect to that next election cycle. If the candidate fails to seek certification as a participating candidate prior to the last day of the Small Dollar Democracy qualifying period for the next election cycle (as described in section 511), or if the Commission notifies the candidate of the Commission’s determination does not meet the requirements for certification as a participating candidate with respect to such cycle, the candidate shall immediately remit to the Commission the amount withheld.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle id="H854FE8A9CD824355A8547F611E0E62AE"><num value="D">“Subtitle D—</num><heading>Enhanced Match Support</heading>
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<section id="H1798D9C2A85C42B0B1F3A15159D88CB5"><num value="531">“SEC. 531. </num><heading>ENHANCED SUPPORT FOR GENERAL ELECTION.</heading>
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<subsection id="H44A383D2B70740939408119286A326C7" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Availability of Enhanced Support</inline>.—</heading><content>In addition to the payments made under subtitle A, the Commission shall make an additional payment to an eligible candidate under this subtitle.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H69352FF19157451286436A67416789F0" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Funds</inline>.—</heading><content>A candidate shall use the additional payment under this subtitle only for authorized expenditures in connection with the election involved.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="HFFAAD22A985C4D46B998962BBA4900AD"><num value="532">“SEC. 532. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY.</heading>
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<subsection id="HF100459AFBC74C47844001F739B8388D" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A candidate is eligible to receive an additional payment under this subtitle if the candidate meets each of the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H3874B86EDA154610875FA0CC9C368464" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The candidate is on the ballot for the general election for the office the candidate seeks.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2334F49FA73D4A4C95E3608D09247F04" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The candidate is certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to the election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H837D7DBABA9A4AC69A69B91DA1C4D857" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>During the enhanced support qualifying period, the candidate receives qualified small dollar contributions in a total amount of not less than $50,000.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H416FC08DD53B41F48075DE9DD5209B91" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><chapeau>During the enhanced support qualifying period, the candidate submits to the Commission a request for the payment which includes—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H9048FA633268444A854358EB51BD8B82" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>a statement of the number and amount of qualified small dollar contributions received by the candidate during the enhanced support qualifying period;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB56AB69D34C54F3FA630E8405CE67493" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>a statement of the amount of the payment the candidate anticipates receiving with respect to the request; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9E723D155B19414CB1C3D61F62A895DA" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>such other information and assurances as the Commission may require.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H66A5801F7E304AC195D5BF24573A44E5" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>After submitting a request for the additional payment under paragraph (4), the candidate does not submit any other application for an additional payment under this subtitle.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="definitions" id="H136FF156904F48B383AF7238889A2D57" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Enhanced Support Qualifying Period Described</inline>.—</heading><content>In this subtitle, the term ‘<term>enhanced support qualifying period</term>’ means, with respect to a general election, the period which begins 60 days before the date of the election and ends 14 days before the date of the election.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="HB5B95CD1A7824B4D82C8CC12FB8432F8"><num value="533">“SEC. 533. </num><heading>AMOUNT.</heading>
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<subsection id="H1837B43AD00A419691C97DA88FC93047" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Subject to subsection (b), the amount of the additional payment made to an eligible candidate under this subtitle shall be an amount equal to 50 percent of—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HF624FC9E8D634D23B9988A9CA39A6B98" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the amount of the payment made to the candidate under section 501(b) with respect to the qualified small dollar contributions which are received by the candidate during the enhanced support qualifying period (as included in the request submitted by the candidate under section 532(a)(4)); or</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HA031825CF9E2499BB3C8E047D210B2B4" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>in the case of a candidate who is not eligible to receive a payment under section 501(b) with respect to such qualified small dollar contributions because the candidate has reached the limit on the aggregate amount of payments under subtitle A for the election cycle under section 501(c), the amount of the payment which would have been made to the candidate under section 501(b) with respect to such qualified small dollar contributions if the candidate had not reached such limit.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HC4F89161DA78430494EB5F3F7BBC04E7" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limit</inline>.—</heading><content>The amount of the additional payment determined under subsection (a) with respect to a candidate may not exceed $500,000.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HED05E573ED6C4AD1BCC1781A77EE693D" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No Effect on Aggregate Limit</inline>.—</heading><content>The amount of the additional payment made to a candidate under this subtitle shall not be included in determining the aggregate amount of payments made to a participating candidate with respect to an election cycle under section 501(c).</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H7A61FD9C0B864D708A78D6B7447EA60F"><num value="534">“SEC. 534. </num><heading>WAIVER OF AUTHORITY TO RETAIN PORTION OF UNSPENT FUNDS AFTER ELECTION.</heading><content class="block">“Notwithstanding section 524(a)(2), a candidate who receives an additional payment under this subtitle with respect to an election is not permitted to withhold any portion from the amount of unspent funds the candidate is required to remit to the Commission under section 524(a)(1).</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle id="H0BE32CDE4606480992F6BF2A81CDC3DE"><num value="E">“Subtitle E—</num><heading>Administrative Provisions</heading>
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<section id="HEFFA4F775CD74821890EF1450D2CB6CB"><num value="541">“SEC. 541. </num><heading>FREEDOM FROM INFLUENCE FUND.</heading>
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<subsection id="HF90793BFCB8F43B7B30D5D667681121F" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Establishment</inline>.—</heading><content>There is established in the Treasury a fund to be known as the ‘Freedom From Influence Fund’.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H235EF383572A45EB8987FD0660CEE69E" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amounts Held by Fund</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Fund shall consist of the following amounts:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HA107E9921BDD4C7BB2234B2F298D9C19" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deposits</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Amounts deposited into the Fund under—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H4E900D941E1A49DFB0F024FD666EF546" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>section 521(c)(1)(B) (relating to exceptions to contribution requirements);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H32F639D705A84D67988AB760818ABD5A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>section 523 (relating to remittance of unused payments from the Fund); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H71741485732D440E8075BA918B75F891" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>section 544 (relating to violations).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H92C4D028022049E9A885AD951F3BEAFF" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Investment returns</inline>.—</heading><content>Interest on, and the proceeds from, the sale or redemption of any obligations held by the Fund under subsection (c).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H8788B2EB1D3E46849F0BBDA54080CBB3" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Investment</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall invest portions of the Fund in obligations of the United States in the same manner as provided under section 9602(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HDFA73BDC2409476AA8473B7A8F21B05C" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Fund to Make Payments to Participating Candidates</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HD88F28592CD94232B0A15A68E7C090E8" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payments to participating candidates</inline>.—</heading><content>Amounts in the Fund shall be available without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation to make payments to participating candidates as provided in this title.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H397BFC3145B640C18A4D72E476B96CEB" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory reduction of payments in case of insufficient amounts in fund</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HA0E433327FC843409CAE6C2B74019C44" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Advance audits by commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days before the first day of each election cycle (beginning with the first election cycle that begins after the date of the enactment of this title), the Commission shall—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HD446EEF7738440C48F5AEF3712766D4B" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>audit the Fund to determine whether the amounts in the Fund will be sufficient to make payments to participating candidates in the amounts provided in this title during such election cycle; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H43037455350B401AAA520B9F30C4C3BD" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>submit a report to Congress describing the results of the audit.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph id="H2FB0453BBF79422397F6A3D88E1E3E2F" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reductions in amount of payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H8A9EFCD1F0F8411A9B2CF832CBE95709" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic reduction on pro rata basis</inline>.—</heading><content>If, on the basis of the audit described in subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that the amount anticipated to be available in the Fund with respect to the election cycle involved is not, or may not be, sufficient to satisfy the full entitlements of participating candidates to payments under this title for such election cycle, the Commission shall reduce each amount which would otherwise be paid to a participating candidate under this title by such pro rata amount as may be necessary to ensure that the aggregate amount of payments anticipated to be made with respect to the election cycle will not exceed the amount anticipated to be available for such payments in the Fund with respect to such election cycle.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HC5E333C40AD44BA79A3340FEE1A3B1BB" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restoration of reductions in case of availability of sufficient funds during election cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>If, after reducing the amounts paid to participating candidates with respect to an election cycle under clause (i), the Commission determines that there are sufficient amounts in the Fund to restore the amount by which such payments were reduced (or any portion thereof), to the extent that such amounts are available, the Commission may make a payment on a pro rata basis to each such participating candidate with respect to the election cycle in the amount by which such candidate’s payments were reduced under clause (i) (or any portion thereof, as the case may be).</content></clause>
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<clause id="H8659DFBEB7004B66BA934AD42324875D" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No use of amounts from other sources</inline>.—</heading><content>In any case in which the Commission determines that there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to make payments to participating candidates under this title, moneys shall not be made available from any other source for the purpose of making such payments.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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||
<subsection id="HD204F637D72F44DE90F63D2FFB625418" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Fund to Make Other Payments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In addition to the use described in subsection (d), amounts in the Fund shall be available without further appropriation or fiscal year limitation—</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph id="HE3AA3CF037BB4AC2B600B501C70ACD8A" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>to make payments to States under the My Voice Voucher Program under the Government By the People Act of 2019, subject to reductions under section 5101(f)(3) of such Act;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H691D3449FE9E43E1A3CA1C47CBF1D18F" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>to make payments to candidates under chapter 95 of subtitle H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, subject to reductions under section 9013(b) of such Code; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2FE59513E35245C7ADA7FA592C3EDC9F" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>to make payments to candidates under chapter 96 of subtitle H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, subject to reductions under section 9043(b) of such Code.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H6A44FDB3DB1A4744B772BEFFCB78A70D" class="indent0"><num value="f">“(f) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>This section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this title.</content></subsection></section>
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||
<section id="H7AB5C798C95B4CA087963BD5BA594222"><num value="542">“SEC. 542. </num><heading>REVIEWS AND REPORTS BY GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE.</heading>
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<subsection id="HA519183BCBE644539FA27DE454A22471" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Review of Small Dollar Financing</inline>.—</heading>
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||
<paragraph id="HAEBF204745BC4B8AACE56796F096D56B" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>After each regularly scheduled general election for Federal office, the Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a comprehensive review of the Small Dollar financing program under this title, including—</chapeau>
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||
<subparagraph id="H2C75D532B6174F2D926F324269646E44" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the maximum and minimum dollar amounts of qualified small dollar contributions under section 504;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8CA96C565F8347B58CEFDCCE7E4EA0FC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the number and value of qualified small dollar contributions a candidate is required to obtain under section 512(a) to be eligible for certification as a participating candidate;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9A665CFA9CD943068644BDCCE8A3418A" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>the maximum amount of payments a candidate may receive under this title;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9B0CD6856CFF44BC913BA6D8AABE3671" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>the overall satisfaction of participating candidates and the American public with the program; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HA6B5F4A15D1C47CFA95EC5829D784643" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>such other matters relating to financing of campaigns as the Comptroller General determines are appropriate.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H53E9D488FDA54FC9A65799A404A8A5DF" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Criteria for review</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In conducting the review under subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General shall consider the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H78574E9C2E0A4C0D8AA83594872B9521" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified small dollar contributions</inline>.—</heading><content>Whether the number and dollar amounts of qualified small dollar contributions required strikes an appropriate balance regarding the importance of voter involvement, the need to assure adequate incentives for participating, and fiscal responsibility, taking into consideration the number of primary and general election participating candidates, the electoral performance of those candidates, program cost, and any other information the Comptroller General determines is appropriate.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HE6D2137DCEF94FA2AB00E9B00B0A887A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Review of payment levels</inline>.—</heading><content>Whether the totality of the amount of funds allowed to be raised by participating candidates (including through qualified small dollar contributions) and payments under this title are sufficient for voters in each State to learn about the candidates to cast an informed vote, taking into account the historic amount of spending by winning candidates, media costs, primary election dates, and any other information the Comptroller General determines is appropriate.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HA4D8C43CA90F4870AB844FA153B367CE" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Recommendations for adjustment of amounts</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Based on the review conducted under subparagraph (A), the Comptroller General may recommend to Congress adjustments of the following amounts:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HFCE2FB79823B40549411EC851F1520FF" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>The number and value of qualified small dollar contributions a candidate is required to obtain under section 512(a) to be eligible for certification as a participating candidate.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0691458F631B468B8CD7519087448C9C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The maximum amount of payments a candidate may receive under this title.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF73DFC819C7F4EC58F81567960A05F9B" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than each June 1 which follows a regularly scheduled general election for Federal office for which payments were made under this title, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on House Administration of the House of Representatives a report—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HA87ECE56DE6940C49181681554A7EDAA" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>containing an analysis of the review conducted under subsection (a), including a detailed statement of Comptroller General’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations based on such review, including any recommendations for adjustments of amounts described in subsection (a)(3); and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H598DC1DEB8F740BCAEFA7A347219566C" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>documenting, evaluating, and making recommendations relating to the administrative implementation and enforcement of the provisions of this title.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF396EED6A5CD4178B6B7D00997FDD394" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorization of Appropriations</inline>.—</heading><content>There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H00CE84A1E698476D97890E7E1298091D"><num value="543">“SEC. 543. </num><heading>ADMINISTRATION BY COMMISSION.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">“The Commission shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this title, including regulations to establish procedures for—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H6A8A350189B94C71A8AE4F728BEF22C0" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>verifying the amount of qualified small dollar contributions with respect to a candidate;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HCD73DC1729E44193A9B8ED4967186D91" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>effectively and efficiently monitoring and enforcing the limits on the raising of qualified small dollar contributions;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H9A817D1F16EB468FA84A4C28A3340A2F" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>effectively and efficiently monitoring and enforcing the limits on the use of personal funds by participating candidates; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB9517C442D7A4B5F8FAA07166BAB48F5" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>monitoring the use of allocations from the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541 and matching contributions under this title through audits of not fewer than 1/10 (or, in the case of the first 3 election cycles during which the program under this title is in effect, not fewer than 1/3) of all participating candidates or other mechanisms.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section id="HC6B082863BDD4F5F942ECA1C45EAD7F7"><num value="544">“SEC. 544. </num><heading>VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES.</heading>
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<subsection id="H54F4FD6035F546A5AA2DDA7C2397D8F2" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Civil Penalty for Violation of Contribution and Expenditure Requirements</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate who has been certified as a participating candidate accepts a contribution or makes an expenditure that is prohibited under section 521, the Commission may assess a civil penalty against the candidate in an amount that is not more than 3 times the amount of the contribution or expenditure. Any amounts collected under this subsection shall be deposited into the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H9345B6265B9743C6BFBB8F6EB69B3C61" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repayment for Improper Use of Freedom From Influence Fund</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HB170A31B5EF64965A0DBE614DB530805" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If the Commission determines that any payment made to a participating candidate was not used as provided for in this title or that a participating candidate has violated any of the dates for remission of funds contained in this title, the Commission shall so notify the candidate and the candidate shall pay to the Fund an amount equal to—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H0E2694283653420D80F5BEF3E6E57F32" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the amount of payments so used or not remitted, as appropriate; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD53384D26015411C9C9E6AE7F4D95F5C" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>interest on any such amounts (at a rate determined by the Commission).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H5035370D9C9343A78AE2DF7D1269C40B" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other action not precluded</inline>.—</heading><content>Any action by the Commission in accordance with this subsection shall not preclude enforcement proceedings by the Commission in accordance with section 309(a), including a referral by the Commission to the Attorney General in the case of an apparent knowing and willful violation of this title.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H09E7EEC4EEF94DF48D5F439476089C68" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting Candidates Subject to Criminal Penalty From Qualifying as Participating Candidates</inline>.—</heading><content>A candidate is not eligible to be certified as a participating candidate under this title with respect to an election if a penalty has been assessed against the candidate under section 309(d) with respect to any previous election.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H76691825B34A4704BEB43E6BBCA5E224"><num value="545">“SEC. 545. </num><heading>APPEALS PROCESS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H75A7A9BB70BC4D52998A3EA4FEC1FA54" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Review of Actions</inline>.—</heading><content>Any action by the Commission in carrying out this title shall be subject to review by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upon petition filed in the Court not later than 30 days after the Commission takes the action for which the review is sought.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H12F3539EE53E49BC9E8DF886226D56AF" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Procedures</inline>.—</heading><content>The provisions of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/ch7">chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, apply to judicial review under this section.</content></subsection></section>
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<section id="H8EF479FD4A614B4E98B28F29D927F5FB"><num value="546">“SEC. 546. </num><heading>INDEXING OF AMOUNTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="HC6215551083349B6845A33279BA10128" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Indexing</inline>.—</heading><content>In any calendar year after 2024, section 315(c)(1)(B) shall apply to each amount described in subsection (b) in the same manner as such section applies to the limitations established under subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(3), and (h) of such section, except that for purposes of applying such section to the amounts described in subsection (b), the ‘base period’ shall be 2024.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HCE17C56F57A243B5A57547E7972B1E88" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amounts Described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amounts described in this subsection are as follows:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HD1F8DB996B7D40A38BE0FE69B0F45726" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 502(b)(1) (relating to the minimum amount of qualified small dollar contributions included in a request for payment).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H8E45A39CDEBD4B3E941D3F883095C093" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>The amounts referred to in section 504(a)(1) (relating to the amount of a qualified small dollar contribution).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H5836B53730274FC68235BA4E334EB9EE" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 512(a)(2) (relating to the total dollar amount of qualified small dollar contributions).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H651EA48B45EE4527A74D097AE9001329" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 521(a)(5) (relating to the aggregate amount of contributions a participating candidate may accept from any individual with respect to an election).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE75EEFBE5279410DABC0AB003C02F0F0" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 521(b)(1)(A) (relating to the amount of personal funds that may be used by a candidate who is certified as a participating candidate).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H4EE6BE031F9A489F872B8E0C67D56DE8" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>The amounts referred to in section 524(a)(2) (relating to the amount of unspent funds a candidate may retain for use in the next election cycle).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H0D4985156C54426DBF6D2BEAA1A6AC05" class="indent1"><num value="7">“(7) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 532(a)(3) (relating to the total dollar amount of qualified small dollar contributions for a candidate seeking an additional payment under subtitle D).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF4DC149B2D8D41E39BC47F0DF9DED168" class="indent1"><num value="8">“(8) </num><content>The amount referred to in section 533(b) (relating to the limit on the amount of an additional payment made to a candidate under subtitle D).</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section role="definitions" id="HBB91B46BA4074BF3A5745588C06A561F"><num value="547">“SEC. 547. </num><heading>ELECTION CYCLE DEFINED.</heading><content class="block">“In this title, the term ‘<term>election cycle</term>’ means, with respect to an election for an office, the period beginning on the day after the date of the most recent general election for that office (or, if the general election resulted in a runoff election, the date of the runoff election) and ending on the date of the next general election for that office (or, if the general election resulted in a runoff election, the date of the runoff election).”</content></section></subtitle></title></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5112" id="H6DC5D829585B42C3B7634AA0D578C35C"><num value="5112">SEC. 5112. </num><heading>CONTRIBUTIONS AND EXPENDITURES BY MULTICANDIDATE AND POLITICAL PARTY COMMITTEES ON BEHALF OF PARTICIPATING CANDIDATES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5112/a" id="H6D8F4A433250483A8B35F747FD763142" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorizing Contributions Only From Separate Accounts Consisting of Qualified Small Dollar Contributions</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 315(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/a">52 U.S.C. 30116(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H815BDBE0F3644D0BB063B2DE545CF22F" class="indent0"><num value="10">“(10) </num><chapeau>In the case of a multicandidate political committee or any political committee of a political party, the committee may make a contribution to a candidate who is a participating candidate under title V with respect to an election only if the contribution is paid from a separate, segregated account of the committee which consists solely of contributions which meet the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H1E6D9D468929447C8A909DF5C3B74B20" class="indent1"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Each such contribution is in an amount which meets the requirements for the amount of a qualified small dollar contribution under section 504(a)(1) with respect to the election involved.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8CA335CACD1D40859224782A7D5CD58C" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Each such contribution is made by an individual who is not otherwise prohibited from making a contribution under this Act.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB78D58A250CA42F68BEEF88A9B46FAB9" class="indent1"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>The individual who makes the contribution does not make contributions to the committee during the year in an aggregate amount that exceeds the limit described in section 504(a)(1).”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5112/b" id="H0789D998F6394C4A872214AD5CCDB10A" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting Unlimited Coordinated Expenditures From Small Dollar Sources by Political Parties</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 315(d) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/d">52 U.S.C. 30116(d)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5112/b/1" id="H600B40268FE044ECB7441D14531547D4" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>in paragraph (3), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>The national committee</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Except as provided in paragraph (5), the national committee</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5112/b/2" id="H2673491F13E84AD2B84AFBA62144794C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H2F6538588BCC45F08981ED32FD313B67" class="indent0"><num value="5">“(5) </num><chapeau>The limits described in paragraph (3) do not apply in the case of expenditures in connection with the general election campaign of a candidate for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress who is a participating candidate under title V with respect to the election, but only if—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H62FECE4EDF3B4C539B9549D62845B8B0" class="indent1"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the expenditures are paid from a separate, segregated account of the committee which is described in subsection (a)(9); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5B70EBD82CAC496E9E2FEF48BC580F99" class="indent1"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the expenditures are the sole source of funding provided by the committee to the candidate.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5113" id="HFB5283FB9DBC40F2A70208AFDC9CA9D5"><num value="5113">SEC. 5113. </num><heading>PROHIBITING USE OF CONTRIBUTIONS BY PARTICIPATING CANDIDATES FOR PURPOSES OTHER THAN CAMPAIGN FOR ELECTION.</heading><content>Section 313 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30114">52 U.S.C. 30114</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H6357FAEE245B435681E42B6BFC342C22" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restrictions on Permitted Uses of Funds by Candidates Receiving Small Dollar Financing</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding paragraph (2), (3), or (4) of subsection (a), if a candidate for election for the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress is certified as a participating candidate under title V with respect to the election, any contribution which the candidate is permitted to accept under such title may be used only for authorized expenditures in connection with the candidate’s campaign for such office, subject to section 503(b).”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5114" id="H608A97FF8BC644098E7FDAA36CB14EA9"><num value="5114">SEC. 5114. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5114/a" id="H02742C77D1BA4D9583A917A019347AFB" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as may otherwise be provided in this part and in the amendments made by this part, this part and the amendments made by this part shall apply with respect to elections occurring during 2026 or any succeeding year, without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated the final regulations necessary to carry out this part and the amendments made by this part by the deadline set forth in subsection (b).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stB/pt2/s5114/b" id="H938302254C7140ACBC95DC3C9FB5BA9F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than June 30, 2024, the Federal Election Commission shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this part and the amendments made by this part.</content></subsection></section></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC" id="HDA5EE2B5FE604926B69FD05688A0B583"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Presidential Elections</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/s5200" id="H51F519142BF4492B8B38D6AF0F44FAD3"><num value="5200">SEC. 5200. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Empower Act of 2019</shortTitle>”.</content></section><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1" id="HCE61EB47D478497F81429550FF791CE9"><num value="1">PART 1—</num><heading>PRIMARY ELECTIONS</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201" id="HE5D6CB5DDFE14F74B0ED95E9C7FFB37C"><num value="5201">SEC. 5201. </num><heading>INCREASE IN AND MODIFICATIONS TO MATCHING PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a" id="H14F0704446D542DBB0D5600FC556A72C" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Increase and Modification</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/1" id="H7BA8953250124B8ABC80956DA00B34FF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The first sentence of section 9034(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/1/A" id="HCCC247BFC06B4D938BEA016A4400B139" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>an amount equal to the amount of each contribution</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>an amount equal to 600 percent of the amount of each matchable contribution (disregarding any amount of contributions from any person to the extent that the total of the amounts contributed by such person for the election exceeds $200)</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/1/B" id="HCC08CEDEB02B4D55AFEB4E35B0D00BE8" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>authorized committees</quotedText>” and all that follows through “<quotedText>$250</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>authorized committees</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/2" id="H01AB61923A444FE18FD307B6EC2BF4A8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Matchable contributions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9034 of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/2/A" id="H2359D4B4A838490E81C7F32056F98003" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the last sentence of subsection (a); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/2/B" id="H4B999E2679D94753A3B39655C76226C2" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="HD89347F585664194814E10CD6A9597AB" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Matchable Contribution Defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this section and section 9033(b)—</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9CF602C5EB5742A6A0E19ED44C7671B1" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Matchable contribution</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>matchable contribution</term>’ means, with respect to the nomination for election to the office of President of the United States, a contribution by an individual to a candidate or an authorized committee of a candidate with respect to which the candidate has certified in writing that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HD069918DB59A4D4D9646F6D03755747C" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the individual making such contribution has not made aggregate contributions (including such matchable contribution) to such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate in excess of $1,000 for the election;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCBA0E6E868BA4F90A1942A8334FA40AC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate will not accept contributions from such individual (including such matchable contribution) aggregating more than the amount described in subparagraph (A); and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HFE5CDF24911F4E1CA920D8BCEDE0889F" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>such contribution was a direct contribution.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9135C82FCC8A4538B08355EBFE8D9FF0" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contribution</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>contribution</term>’ means a gift of money made by a written instrument which identifies the individual making the contribution by full name and mailing address, but does not include a subscription, loan, advance, or deposit of money, or anything of value or anything described in subparagraph (B), (C), or (D) of section 9032(4).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H66E98C375778409699AAA4754BDC91C7" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Direct contribution</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="H703A655E5FB940DBAC81386DA52E4168" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>direct contribution</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate, a contribution which is made directly by an individual to the candidate or an authorized committee of the candidate and is not—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HFC6275B01EAB451DAA3AC25E9910EA50" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>forwarded from the individual making the contribution to the candidate or committee by another person; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="H9690269508084C00A09CD91CEAC43685" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>received by the candidate or committee with the knowledge that the contribution was made at the request, suggestion, or recommendation of another person.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCB11551DCC7F45A2BEFF6088D0924E0A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other definitions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In subparagraph (A)—</chapeau>
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<clause role="definitions" id="H71574CE03A544C16A377E6313815C579" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the term ‘<term>person</term>’ does not include an individual (other than an individual described in section 304(i)(7) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971), a political committee of a political party, or any political committee which is not a separate segregated fund described in section 316(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and which does not make contributions or independent expenditures, does not engage in lobbying activity under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (<ref href="/us/usc/t2/s1601/etseq">2 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.</ref>), and is not established by, controlled by, or affiliated with a registered lobbyist under such Act, an agent of a registered lobbyist under such Act, or an organization which retains or employs a registered lobbyist under such Act; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB185EFDADB3C451FA86CC3486174A2DA" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>a contribution is not ‘made at the request, suggestion, or recommendation of another person’ solely on the grounds that the contribution is made in response to information provided to the individual making the contribution by any person, so long as the candidate or authorized committee does not know the identity of the person who provided the information to such individual.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/3" id="H81B8A1A9CD73479E8CF25900263732C4" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/3/A" id="H7A0369245A3347408749718947778719" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Section 9032(4) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 9034(a)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>section 9034</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/a/3/B" id="H5B3F0B99144C428DB4C155CC83EF0E46" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Section 9033(b)(3) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>matching contributions</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>matchable contributions</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/b" id="H567D415590074012BC1EEAF0FD3943BF" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Modification of Payment Limitation</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9034(a) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/b/1" id="H74E6A301240641EDA9AC4FA06474EF75" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Every</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:
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<paragraph id="HA799C1FC174544A49BA1F2748365DD54" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Every”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">; </inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/b/2" id="H1AFA21F8C59C4B9194EB8852E38B591E" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>shall not exceed</quotedText>” and all that follows and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>shall not exceed $250,000,000.</quotedText>”, and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5201/b/3" id="H949BDF5BC43B4EC0B8107E3BF479D877" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H75ABE77D50264F18B1DF88BB2FB9B891" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inflation adjustment</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H25785F1BC3F04FFCB469A0BA85390CE3" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of any applicable period beginning after 2029, the dollar amount in paragraph (1) shall be increased by an amount equal to—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HC4BED341F3784A16AD407B061F121A5D" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>such dollar amount, multiplied by</content></clause>
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<clause id="HF4388FE954654B90AED06D99004216CB" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year following the year which such applicable period begins, determined by substituting ‘calendar year 2028’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="definitions" id="HF4704A73DABD4ABFBE4F9812BF4BE492" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Applicable period</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘<term>applicable period</term>’ means the 4-year period beginning with the first day following the date of the general election for the office of President and ending on the date of the next such general election.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H290E09204CA14F959D89F9335E68C2CF" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rounding</inline>.—</heading><content>If any amount as adjusted under subparagraph (1) is not a multiple of $10,000, such amount shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $10,000.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202" id="H5B433CC186C44C9CBB57641119CB22C3"><num value="5202">SEC. 5202. </num><heading>ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MATCHING PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/a" id="HED32D30BCBFB4267A0C98F45E5B2A034" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of Aggregate Contributions Per State; Disregarding of Amounts Contributed in Excess of $200</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9033(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/a/1" id="HA905FAF9720E41DC851CB066584DFD64" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>$5,000</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>$25,000</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/a/2" id="H4609A78C9D144C0D83C11FA15A5633D3" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>20 States</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>20 States (disregarding any amount of contributions from any such resident to the extent that the total of the amounts contributed by such resident for the election exceeds $200)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/b" id="HBF64A4F0E9DD4721AE61E9B5FACD9E62" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contribution Limit</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/b/1" id="HD6A344176B0944D1B696D212360EEFBF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (4) of section 9033(b) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H39F681B5726E4BF4917B09EA5C30C8C7" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><content>the candidate and the authorized committees of the candidate will not accept aggregate contributions from any person with respect to the nomination for election to the office of President of the United States in excess of $1,000 for the election.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/b/2" id="H56980D55892248A38DDBE2A6849CFBD6" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/b/2/A" id="H4730D262A0684BB4ADB0A72F3676AE4B" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Section 9033(b) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new flush sentence:
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<continuation class="indent0">“For purposes of paragraph (4), the term ‘<term>contribution</term>’ has the meaning given such term in section 301(8) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.”</continuation></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/b/2/B" id="H621CAB3FFFFF4C8380DDA5F438E17EEE" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>Section 9032(4) of such Code, as amended by section 5201(a)(3)(A), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or 9033(b)</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>9034</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/c" id="HB8770B759563438BA4D3D5F4BC61FA10" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Participation in System for Payments for General Election</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9033(b) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/c/1" id="H9820AA6A172D4CA8AA74CB0F6D795964" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (3);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/c/2" id="H788C1E09189B449DA961DADF0CE93EE3" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (4) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/c/3" id="HDA4D1325FB9B454AB7AB868B2FAE4AF9" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="HEB6C63631740441CA6B72703633F5553" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><content>if the candidate is nominated by a political party for election to the office of President, the candidate will apply for and accept payments with respect to the general election for such office in accordance with chapter 95.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/d" id="HA712A9D09E78458B9BD04388A7EA76FA" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition on Joint Fundraising Committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 9033(b) of such Code, as amended by subsection (c), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/d/1" id="H0BB99A56462848D8B19E6A583135C14C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (4);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/d/2" id="HD48FC41686EF4AA09957015BA58FC75A" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (5) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5202/d/3" id="H0B50209DE7E14AE4AA3C2D980FA4C67C" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H4BED68F441654D58BD655A4CD0FFFB54" class="indent1"><num value="6">“(6) </num><content>the candidate will not establish a joint fundraising committee with a political committee other than another authorized committee of the candidate, except that candidate established a joint fundraising committee with respect to a prior election for which the candidate was not eligible to receive payments under section 9037 and the candidate does not terminate the committee, the candidate shall not be considered to be in violation of this paragraph so long as that joint fundraising committee does not receive any contributions or make any disbursements during the election cycle for which the candidate is eligible to receive payments under such section.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5203" id="H9450DF1F64EA40F9BA7205BF6C6E4029"><num value="5203">SEC. 5203. </num><heading>REPEAL OF EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5203/a" id="H45DB85C88C4842808633CD333CC83888" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) of section 9035 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H5B192E8E75A04B719C97FA4B5EF23768" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Personal Expenditure Limitation</inline>.—</heading><content>No candidate shall knowingly make expenditures from his personal funds, or the personal funds of his immediate family, in connection with his campaign for nomination for election to the office of President in excess of, in the aggregate, $50,000.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5203/b" id="HF9274B0E59844EF1B77EA8C56F19C9DA" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (1) of section 9033(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H40B3485F350C41489BE9CAE136C38459" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the candidate will comply with the personal expenditure limitation under section 9035,”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5204" id="HD78811AF76044849B779CB7681CC10AE"><num value="5204">SEC. 5204. </num><heading>PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY OF MATCHING PAYMENTS.</heading><content class="block">Section 9032(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the beginning of the calendar year in which a general election for the office of President of the United States will be held</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the date that is 6 months prior to the date of the earliest State primary election</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5205" id="H6215B803E3F9401FA8023C08DBADD790"><num value="5205">SEC. 5205. </num><heading>EXAMINATION AND AUDITS OF MATCHABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.</heading><content class="block">Section 9038(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and matchable contributions accepted by</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>qualified campaign expenses of</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5206" id="HCD875570CC6F4FB680508C531D7145C5"><num value="5206">SEC. 5206. </num><heading>MODIFICATION TO LIMITATION ON CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY CANDIDATES.</heading><content class="block">Section 315(a)(6) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/a/6">52 U.S.C. 30116(a)(6)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>calendar year</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>four-year election cycle</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5207" id="H2344565C4DEE4E9AA6FADEB0F3F9486E"><num value="5207">SEC. 5207. </num><heading>USE OF FREEDOM FROM INFLUENCE FUND AS SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5207/a" id="HE05A1E88C9284CF1ADCA1B8F28BEEE92" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Chapter 96 of subtitle H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new section:
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<section id="H0AA5BF9A737C4591ACDA95483B0253CB"><num value="9043">“SEC. 9043. </num><heading>USE OF FREEDOM FROM INFLUENCE FUND AS SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="H97DE8B4B05F845C0BCB28409A7CD28FD" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, effective with respect to the Presidential election held in 2028 and each succeeding Presidential election, all payments made to candidates under this chapter shall be made from the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (hereafter in this section referred to as the ‘Fund’).</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="HECFF2AA2B91F485CB2E629D842F74328" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory Reduction of Payments in Case of Insufficient Amounts in Fund</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H2A06E2542425410CB7106B31E130C517" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Advance audits by commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days before the first day of each Presidential election cycle (beginning with the cycle for the election held in 2028), the Commission shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HB6AB307A235B4E3F8FF1414C95ECEB44" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>audit the Fund to determine whether, after first making payments to participating candidates under title V of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and then making payments to States under the My Voice Voucher Program under the Government By the People Act of 2019, the amounts remaining in the Fund will be sufficient to make payments to candidates under this chapter in the amounts provided under this chapter during such election cycle; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HEA622F7F95904A1591EA8B891D2167CD" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>submit a report to Congress describing the results of the audit.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H39DFAB0B599547719083F7F8946AFA14" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reductions in amount of payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H033F491FC08C40DCA49C92C252F80F19" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic reduction on pro rata basis</inline>.—</heading><content>If, on the basis of the audit described in paragraph (1), the Commission determines that the amount anticipated to be available in the Fund with respect to the Presidential election cycle involved is not, or may not be, sufficient to satisfy the full entitlements of candidates to payments under this chapter for such cycle, the Commission shall reduce each amount which would otherwise be paid to a candidate under this chapter by such pro rata amount as may be necessary to ensure that the aggregate amount of payments anticipated to be made with respect to the cycle will not exceed the amount anticipated to be available for such payments in the Fund with respect to such cycle.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB7F8F1A4261044279669770A212C79AF" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restoration of reductions in case of availability of sufficient funds during election cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>If, after reducing the amounts paid to candidates with respect to an election cycle under subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that there are sufficient amounts in the Fund to restore the amount by which such payments were reduced (or any portion thereof), to the extent that such amounts are available, the Commission may make a payment on a pro rata basis to each such candidate with respect to the election cycle in the amount by which such candidate’s payments were reduced under subparagraph (A) (or any portion thereof, as the case may be).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H04D65120B8D2472AA87321CEFDD11E40" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No use of amounts from other sources</inline>.—</heading><content>In any case in which the Commission determines that there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to make payments to candidates under this chapter, moneys shall not be made available from any other source for the purpose of making such payments.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H50F8DAF8547D4558B076C193C94D65AE" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on amounts transferred for pediatric research initiative</inline>.—</heading><content>This section does not apply to the transfer of funds under section 9008(i).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H427FBFC3E4824F10B7BEF0C257824DE9" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Presidential election cycle defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the term ‘<term>Presidential election cycle</term>’ means, with respect to a Presidential election, the period beginning on the day after the date of the previous Presidential general election and ending on the date of the Presidential election.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt1/s5207/b" id="H81F7A484F61447508206AF2D70DB31E2" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of sections for chapter 96 of subtitle H of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new item:
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<designator>“Sec. 9043. </designator>
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<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.”</label>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2" id="H0EF9388529B549C38CF3144997B10386"><num value="2">PART 2—</num><heading>GENERAL ELECTIONS</heading>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5211" id="H68E375A98C234FB985801D6AF96D238A"><num value="5211">SEC. 5211. </num><heading>MODIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC FINANCING.</heading><content>Subsection (a) of section 9003 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="HCE7E87E73B7149A78B0DAB054F8853B5" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In order to be eligible to receive any payments under section 9006, the candidates of a political party in a Presidential election shall meet the following requirements:</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="HC85E1DE25E6C44BDB853F96E3A218C5F" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Participation in primary payment system</inline>.—</heading><content>The candidate for President received payments under chapter 96 for the campaign for nomination for election to be President.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H0069A149B47A4F2C9E158CF1DB7E518F" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Agreements with commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The candidates, in writing—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H6D6EAAEEA4564B588919E7B6A91A4DB7" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>agree to obtain and furnish to the Commission such evidence as it may request of the qualified campaign expenses of such candidates,</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC69E6B22BD884A0A9D21CD99972278E2" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>agree to keep and furnish to the Commission such records, books, and other information as it may request, and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H8EB6CAFCEF474D05A9BE63955F1762C6" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>agree to an audit and examination by the Commission under section 9007 and to pay any amounts required to be paid under such section.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF3E3D27E08C64814BCF405DC69A136D2" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition on joint fundraising committees</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HF8C6EBADBC5D411982A49F8779F51625" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibition</inline>.—</heading><content>The candidates certifies in writing that the candidates will not establish a joint fundraising committee with a political committee other than another authorized committee of the candidate.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HEC9358B1D2814484A4A8E5699D138164" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Status of existing committees for prior elections</inline>.—</heading><content>If a candidate established a joint fundraising committee described in subparagraph (A) with respect to a prior election for which the candidate was not eligible to receive payments under section 9006 and the candidate does not terminate the committee, the candidate shall not be considered to be in violation of subparagraph (A) so long as that joint fundraising committee does not receive any contributions or make any disbursements with respect to the election for which the candidate is eligible to receive payments under section 9006.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212" id="HAA71BE873156498CB396DB10C64694A6"><num value="5212">SEC. 5212. </num><heading>REPEAL OF EXPENDITURE LIMITATIONS AND USE OF QUALIFIED CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/a" id="H43615113A87C4B95B4C92F8A8950F10F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Qualified Campaign Contributions Without Expenditure Limits; Application of Same Requirements for Major, Minor, and New Parties</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9003 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsections (b) and (c) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:
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<subsection id="H505A8F1CD30A42F0AB4FEC8B9232DC1C" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Use of Qualified Campaign Contributions To Defray Expenses</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H0B91ADB61FC349648C3613A71403A8BA" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In order to be eligible to receive any payments under section 9006, the candidates of a party in a Presidential election shall certify to the Commission, under penalty of perjury, that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HFF88347B37EA48689E4AEBB64682FEE9" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><chapeau>such candidates and their authorized committees have not and will not accept any contributions to defray qualified campaign expenses other than—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H36BFE9FF13534D8A98D0BACFA4EED880" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>qualified campaign contributions, and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H23A3797CEA5743CC81AEE706412271DB" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>contributions to the extent necessary to make up any deficiency payments received out of the fund on account of the application of section 9006(c), and</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6978B534D5AB46718A00D1D5FA97D2B7" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>such candidates and their authorized committees have not and will not accept any contribution to defray expenses which would be qualified campaign expenses but for subparagraph (C) of section 9002(11).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HAC5A7E9924944579AA77513F6BD9FADC" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Timing of certification</inline>.—</heading><content>The candidate shall make the certification required under this subsection at the same time the candidate makes the certification required under subsection (a)(3).”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/b" id="H0C73B2BDFFC0410A95BC50A4C49E5F00" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definition of Qualified Campaign Contribution</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9002 of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H6D49D9487E094BC6A80C43D646EA4AD5" class="indent1"><num value="13">“(13) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualified campaign contribution</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>qualified campaign contribution</term>’ means, with respect to any election for the office of President of the United States, a contribution from an individual to a candidate or an authorized committee of a candidate which—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H726C49E087D14E04A71CC1F567DEAB34" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>does not exceed $1,000 for the election; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDF0399AB2B9344DEB78E5DAB58332292" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>with respect to which the candidate has certified in writing that—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H45D94009683B47FCA90129F7236FD259" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the individual making such contribution has not made aggregate contributions (including such qualified contribution) to such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate in excess of the amount described in subparagraph (A), and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H67ED6B042E2A41A6A05D48909DB09FD3" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate will not accept contributions from such individual (including such qualified contribution) aggregating more than the amount described in subparagraph (A) with respect to such election.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c" id="H7696290A51094615A5452497C62885E6" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/1" id="H1E5A70B352E74E1DAD8AD58E874F7773" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of expenditure limits</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/1/A" id="H031F40B5F8584D12B47CA5F7EF1273AA" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 315 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116">52 U.S.C. 30116</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (b).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/1/B" id="HA370322996914FA0825E464FAEFF89AC" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 315(c) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/c">52 U.S.C. 30116(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/1/B/i" id="H5BB5D4191AAB4BD1B87C6C9926897BE0" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>in paragraph (1)(B)(i), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, (b)</quotedText>”; and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/1/B/ii" id="H6F2CB670A76347699FFADCA470662669" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>in paragraph (2)(B)(i), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subsections (b) and (d)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>subsection (d)</quotedText>”.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2" id="HB5CDA735320E44B4A19D02570B9F64D4" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of repayment requirement</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2/A" id="H619A05DBBAEB4ACF8523A469A71E48B9" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9007(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraph (2) and <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2/B" id="H724E026521CA40C6BF370DEFB1688D9A" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Paragraph (2) of section 9007(b) of such Code, as redesignated by subparagraph (A), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2/B/i" id="HEC60BB98C2614A528CC63B1DE6BC63F8" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>a major party</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>a party</quotedText>”;</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2/B/ii" id="HD8AC611B1C944666B6BFACE25406A10B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>qualified contributions and</quotedText>” after “<quotedText>contributions (other than</quotedText>”; and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/2/B/iii" id="HDD5B8F015EAC4387A1C7DF7A8A29D519" class="indent3"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(other than qualified campaign expenses with respect to which payment is required under paragraph (2))</quotedText>”.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/3" id="HD64F6DE741BF4CE5AE49303A29D969CD" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Criminal penalties</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/3/A" id="HC1660D1FCC774C39B4A08446278C1C64" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of penalty for excess expenses</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9012 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (a).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5212/c/3/B" id="H69C7B2AC6CD148A4BFC9FC6055F639BA" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Penalty for acceptance of disallowed contributions; application of same penalty for candidates of major, minor, and new parties</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (b) of section 9012 of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="HA92FA6FEAE884E9DB4808E89F5274A89" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Contributions</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HD40EB45087C841EB942A110F605219EC" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Acceptance of disallowed contributions</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>It shall be unlawful for an eligible candidate of a party in a Presidential election or any of his authorized committees knowingly and willfully to accept—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H6419021DA387479A8894F34F78976855" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>any contribution other than a qualified campaign contribution to defray qualified campaign expenses, except to the extent necessary to make up any deficiency in payments received out of the fund on account of the application of section 9006(c); or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD4A697F4200941FBA8714B6F3B97B287" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>any contribution to defray expenses which would be qualified campaign expenses but for subparagraph (C) of section 9002(11).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HEB97EDB9EA09456A8FF283796E679652" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Penalty</inline>.—</heading><content>Any person who violates paragraph (1) shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. In the case of a violation by an authorized committee, any officer or member of such committee who knowingly and willfully consents to such violation shall be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213" id="H0C074509BFAE4CC6B330384BB2D8ECDC"><num value="5213">SEC. 5213. </num><heading>MATCHING PAYMENTS AND OTHER MODIFICATIONS TO PAYMENT AMOUNTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213/a" id="H6613AD5B245948228BA938C6F8DD4F94" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213/a/1" id="HF6A7819893084F68BA82770504388BCF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Amount of payments; application of same amount for candidates of major, minor, and new parties</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (a) of section 9004 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H980700D7EB0140B68F0C3205C8509E5F" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Subject to the provisions of this chapter, the eligible candidates of a party in a Presidential election shall be entitled to equal payment under section 9006 in an amount equal to 600 percent of the amount of each matchable contribution received by such candidate or by the candidate’s authorized committees (disregarding any amount of contributions from any person to the extent that the total of the amounts contributed by such person for the election exceeds $200), except that total amount to which a candidate is entitled under this paragraph shall not exceed $250,000,000.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213/a/2" id="H67F0417F5A834E739E5C6FDB7DA45B1F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of separate limitations for candidates of minor and new parties; inflation adjustment</inline>.—</heading><content>Subsection (b) of section 9004 of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H816F60B602874B34B932D52850137738" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Inflation Adjustment</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H145981BF94374C92928AF2A2FF97433A" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In the case of any applicable period beginning after 2029, the $250,000,000 dollar amount in subsection (a) shall be increased by an amount equal to—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H3CA0F83C46FF41CB8C14435BB72558D0" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>such dollar amount; multiplied by</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0B780ACB5B2445499F9FBD31F2A2CC14" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year following the year which such applicable period begins, determined by substituting ‘calendar year 2028’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H207BA77E8F6A4DBA9FA738C1D037FD52" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Applicable period</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>applicable period</term>’ means the 4-year period beginning with the first day following the date of the general election for the office of President and ending on the date of the next such general election.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H6446F53D49CB4F389CCAB46219D8E2B9" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Rounding</inline>.—</heading><content>If any amount as adjusted under paragraph (1) is not a multiple of $10,000, such amount shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $10,000.”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213/a/3" id="H31C521CE6FE348EFB96C3673628166E1" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9005(a) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new sentence: “<quotedText>The Commission shall make such additional certifications as may be necessary to receive payments under section 9004.</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5213/b" id="H8EDEF29570684D87920785F549FE1A96" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Matchable Contribution</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9002 of such Code, as amended by section 5212(b), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H0E672B781ECA4BC6B1931CF36DA471AE" class="indent1"><num value="14">“(14) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Matchable contribution</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term ‘<term>matchable contribution</term>’ means, with respect to the election to the office of President of the United States, a contribution by an individual to a candidate or an authorized committee of a candidate with respect to which the candidate has certified in writing that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H60B8E1F1736A416BA044986E9AEECAF4" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the individual making such contribution has not made aggregate contributions (including such matchable contribution) to such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate in excess of $1,000 for the election;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H19A84BB6CBEC44058F36CFC0F648BBB7" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>such candidate and the authorized committees of such candidate will not accept contributions from such individual (including such matchable contribution) aggregating more than the amount described in subparagraph (A) with respect to such election; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB34FC76E8BAC4835AF9853D771B7599D" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>such contribution was a direct contribution (as defined in section 9034(c)(3)).”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214" id="H60F389AE1D774A769D5AE8547C7DB8E4"><num value="5214">SEC. 5214. </num><heading>INCREASE IN LIMIT ON COORDINATED PARTY EXPENDITURES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/a" id="HB67422A72315444E882F00E9E32CE1DF" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 315(d)(2) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/d/2">52 U.S.C. 30116(d)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H7E8B218672CE4D9388255548DD8445EE" class="indent0"><num value="2">“(2)</num><subparagraph id="HB07A6BAE64E246BCA79045B5C5C54465" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The national committee of a political party may not make any expenditure in connection with the general election campaign of any candidate for President of the United States who is affiliated with such party which exceeds $100,000,000.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HFE25CE050A4547149CA40C93C05872B0" class="indent0"><num value="B">“(B) </num><chapeau>For purposes of this paragraph—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H824887BA096F4330A7311E27C7C58E28" class="indent1"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>any expenditure made by or on behalf of a national committee of a political party and in connection with a Presidential election shall be considered to be made in connection with the general election campaign of a candidate for President of the United States who is affiliated with such party; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HE83561DBF7304871AE7FAA82BCF5682E" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>any communication made by or on behalf of such party shall be considered to be made in connection with the general election campaign of a candidate for President of the United States who is affiliated with such party if any portion of the communication is in connection with such election.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H513EDF263B11403CBB4635FDF7825661" class="indent0"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Any expenditure under this paragraph shall be in addition to any expenditure by a national committee of a political party serving as the principal campaign committee of a candidate for the office of President of the United States.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b" id="HF8C7669C504744CDA34CB3E81F0E178B" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendments Relating to Timing of Cost-of-Living Adjustment</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/1" id="HEB795730D2B64E38AF79AF52EF25FB58" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 315(c)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/c/1">52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/1/A" id="HD9DCBCDF5D65409E91E3AB2D8FC7B915" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>in subparagraph (B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)(2)</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/1/B" id="HCD5C4145FD5244FC9AD809C2BC98E50C" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<subparagraph id="H8E3337B55FD9446F864A6C27FC654E74" class="indent0"><num value="D">“(D) </num><chapeau>In any calendar year after 2028—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H3AB2BD4D17144BFCAE07E4B0A71CAA9F" class="indent1"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the dollar amount in subsection (d)(2) shall be increased by the percent difference determined under subparagraph (A);</content></clause>
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<clause id="H39BEDABA885E4C23B63D034CFDF41595" class="indent1"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the amount so increased shall remain in effect for the calendar year; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="HFC474B7F2C844194A1E9A0CBAFF36D97" class="indent1"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>if the amount after adjustment under clause (i) is not a multiple of $100, such amount shall be rounded to the nearest multiple of $100.”</content></clause></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2" id="H22E71A48DD4E451FB4BBEEB7FA5CEE8D" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Base year</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 315(c)(2)(B) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30116/c/2/B">52 U.S.C. 30116(c)(2)(B)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2/A" id="H1B9762586BED40E48B30D36FE6B809A0" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>in clause (i)—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2/A/i" id="H85852DADD9EE4DC78E9D6EAF48705C70" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(d)(3)</quotedText>”; and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2/A/ii" id="H2D0215D19A094CFA91F60A6107861C5A" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end;</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2/B" id="H950FC11F4840459C8AD0853B3C829608" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in clause (ii), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5214/b/2/C" id="H301D580D18C34FBCBAA3C91DFEA0AFC0" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new clause:
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<clause id="H3407BDE25A044D6C8A3578150A45374C" class="indent2"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>for purposes of subsection (d)(2), calendar year 2027.”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5215" id="H7CE3D4171ABE41718A8BBEBFBD25676B"><num value="5215">SEC. 5215. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIFORM DATE FOR RELEASE OF PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5215/a" id="H683BE7DE18D940619E1968FBAB0A9C06" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Date for Payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5215/a/1" id="H50F3AA25EEE14DD8A15BE1ABAB23CBDE" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9006(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H0C20A5C9B76A49FC8FC80C999E51C3CB" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payments From the Fund</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If the Secretary of the Treasury receives a certification from the Commission under section 9005 for payment to the eligible candidates of a political party, the Secretary shall pay to such candidates out of the fund the amount certified by the Commission on the later of—</chapeau>
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<paragraph id="H57440E494A584B42AA7CFA753FBC5C23" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><content>the last Friday occurring before the first Monday in September; or</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HC8E5EB0AAC524F0F8AD21225F44B35B0" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>24 hours after receiving the certifications for the eligible candidates of all major political parties.</content></paragraph>
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<continuation class="indent0" role="subsection">Amounts paid to any such candidates shall be under the control of such candidates.”</continuation></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5215/a/2" id="HD341268FE5B24E6FA966E3178035EC0F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The first sentence of section 9006(c) of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the time of a certification by the Commission under section 9005 for payment</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the time of making a payment under subsection (b)</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5215/b" id="H33D88000ADFE42E5A5783465837760D6" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Time for Certification</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 9005(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>10 days</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>24 hours</quotedText>”.</content></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5216" id="H07431343FC864B308B2B0B678A2A2856"><num value="5216">SEC. 5216. </num><heading>AMOUNTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUND.</heading><content class="block">Section 9006(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new sentence: “<quotedText>In making a determination of whether there are insufficient moneys in the fund for purposes of the previous sentence, the Secretary shall take into account in determining the balance of the fund for a Presidential election year the Secretary’s best estimate of the amount of moneys which will be deposited into the fund during the year, except that the amount of the estimate may not exceed the average of the annual amounts deposited in the fund during the previous 3 years.</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5217" id="H0227A1D17E6E421192A7BCB212E445CF"><num value="5217">SEC. 5217. </num><heading>USE OF GENERAL ELECTION PAYMENTS FOR GENERAL ELECTION LEGAL AND ACCOUNTING COMPLIANCE.</heading><content class="block">Section 9002(11) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new sentence: “<quotedText>For purposes of subparagraph (A), an expense incurred by a candidate or authorized committee for general election legal and accounting compliance purposes shall be considered to be an expense to further the election of such candidate.</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5218" id="H7A7CBF873ABA4B1CAEEA9B980F3E8E10"><num value="5218">SEC. 5218. </num><heading>USE OF FREEDOM FROM INFLUENCE FUND AS SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5218/a" id="H6051A5A57B494B7DB08D76255A198112" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Chapter 95 of subtitle H of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new section:
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<section id="H01455A3BE70447A49189B6B813950562"><num value="9013">“SEC. 9013. </num><heading>USE OF FREEDOM FROM INFLUENCE FUND AS SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.</heading>
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<subsection id="HE7791D7DD7484B54B8C974AA7E31B5BA" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, effective with respect to the Presidential election held in 2028 and each succeeding Presidential election, all payments made under this chapter shall be made from the Freedom From Influence Fund established under section 541 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971.</content></subsection>
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<subsection id="H05F4C91378C346FFB98AD70D807218BA" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Mandatory Reduction of Payments in Case of Insufficient Amounts in Fund</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HAC86424279E247A7A1F44035261F8732" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Advance audits by commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Not later than 90 days before the first day of each Presidential election cycle (beginning with the cycle for the election held in 2028), the Commission shall—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H11F7C87DCDBD4E2BB04FDE5E01410D19" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>audit the Fund to determine whether, after first making payments to participating candidates under title V of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 and then making payments to States under the My Voice Voucher Program under the Government By the People Act of 2019 and then making payments to candidates under chapter 96, the amounts remaining in the Fund will be sufficient to make payments to candidates under this chapter in the amounts provided under this chapter during such election cycle; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC16E6112C7804C73B8E3D774A1DA2D5E" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>submit a report to Congress describing the results of the audit.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H22972802DAD3491096CF64305F0690C5" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reductions in amount of payments</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H590CD16ABF3E42B3910F31803A37D5A3" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Automatic reduction on pro rata basis</inline>.—</heading><content>If, on the basis of the audit described in paragraph (1), the Commission determines that the amount anticipated to be available in the Fund with respect to the Presidential election cycle involved is not, or may not be, sufficient to satisfy the full entitlements of candidates to payments under this chapter for such cycle, the Commission shall reduce each amount which would otherwise be paid to a candidate under this chapter by such pro rata amount as may be necessary to ensure that the aggregate amount of payments anticipated to be made with respect to the cycle will not exceed the amount anticipated to be available for such payments in the Fund with respect to such cycle.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HF6189FCD5A4B49AAA7A1B77ACB1207BD" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Restoration of reductions in case of availability of sufficient funds during election cycle</inline>.—</heading><content>If, after reducing the amounts paid to candidates with respect to an election cycle under subparagraph (A), the Commission determines that there are sufficient amounts in the Fund to restore the amount by which such payments were reduced (or any portion thereof), to the extent that such amounts are available, the Commission may make a payment on a pro rata basis to each such candidate with respect to the election cycle in the amount by which such candidate’s payments were reduced under subparagraph (A) (or any portion thereof, as the case may be).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6C71AD27653E459D9078618249936579" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No use of amounts from other sources</inline>.—</heading><content>In any case in which the Commission determines that there are insufficient moneys in the Fund to make payments to candidates under this chapter, moneys shall not be made available from any other source for the purpose of making such payments.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HF61162AA01774D1CB4BD6014908F19C5" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on amounts transferred for pediatric research initiative</inline>.—</heading><content>This section does not apply to the transfer of funds under section 9008(i).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H87A5E5A080B04B3D9AF706CCF1A2589A" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Presidential election cycle defined</inline>.—</heading><content>In this section, the term ‘<term>Presidential election cycle</term>’ means, with respect to a Presidential election, the period beginning on the day after the date of the previous Presidential general election and ending on the date of the Presidential election.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt2/s5218/b" id="H11B374265E3F4CE1BB5E3E756A870378" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Clerical Amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The table of sections for chapter 95 of subtitle H of such Code <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new item:
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<label>Use of Freedom From Influence Fund as source of payments.”</label>
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</referenceItem></toc></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section></part><part identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt3" id="H7DE6C53BD44448648B60D9E6CEF90E1E"><num value="3">PART 3—</num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt3/s5221" id="H6760CE1400964AC09ABF5EB10E89804E"><num value="5221">SEC. 5221. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt3/s5221/a" id="HE7D054DB73734BD9AAFAE72D5009B42B" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as otherwise provided, this subtitle and the amendments made by this subtitle shall apply with respect to the Presidential election held in 2028 and each succeeding Presidential election, without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated the final regulations necessary to carry out this part and the amendments made by this part by the deadline set forth in subsection (b).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stC/pt3/s5221/b" id="H7B988CE3E47E42C18FF865335E13DD77" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Deadline for Regulations</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than June 30, 2026, the Federal Election Commission shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary to carry out this part and the amendments made by this part.</content></subsection></section></part></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD" id="H7A38B2497B5E4213B6B3A0EA4E56ECFA"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>Personal Use Services as Authorized Campaign Expenditures</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301" id="H42454F8417D34A6EA1FEB17EFF95F6BF"><num value="5301">SEC. 5301. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE; FINDINGS; PURPOSE.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/a" id="H4AA3BDD5253444AF91809D380DF4C8CB" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Short Title</inline>.—</heading><content>This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Help America Run Act</shortTitle>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b" id="HE6DF3B70186B4A7DA895AE374090B123" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Findings</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Congress finds the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b/1" id="H481803682F5E40AAB6228752119C82E9" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>Everyday Americans experience barriers to entry before they can consider running for office to serve their communities.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b/2" id="H51A65C04249B4CD18925712BD5F68637" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>Current law states that campaign funds cannot be spent on everyday expenses that would exist whether or not a candidate were running for office, like childcare and food. While the law seems neutral, its actual effect is to privilege the independently wealthy who want to run, because given the demands of running for office, candidates who must work to pay for childcare or to afford health insurance are effectively being left out of the process, even if they have sufficient support to mount a viable campaign.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b/3" id="H52362F5338A54206BD0B59EEE7AFCBD1" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>Thus current practice favors those prospective candidates who do not need to rely on a regular paycheck to make ends meet. The consequence is that everyday Americans who have firsthand knowledge of the importance of stable childcare, a safety net, or great public schools are less likely to get a seat at the table. This governance by the few is antithetical to the democratic experiment, but most importantly, when lawmakers do not share the concerns of everyday Americans, their policies reflect that.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b/4" id="H46A7F927B80649EBB00559921EEBFAE5" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>These circumstances have contributed to a Congress that does not always reflect everyday Americans. The New York Times reported in 2019 that fewer than 5 percent of representatives cite blue-collar or service jobs in their biographies. A 2015 survey by the Center for Responsive Politics showed that the median net worth of lawmakers was just over $1 million in 2013, or 18 times the wealth of the typical American household.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/b/5" id="H08DF17CD1EBC4EF09932886DEA9896ED" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>These circumstances have also contributed to a governing body that does not reflect the nation it serves. For instance, women are 51% of the American population. Yet even with a record number of women serving in the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress, the Pew Research Center notes that more than three out of four Members of this Congress are male. The Center for American Women And Politics found that one third of women legislators surveyed had been actively discouraged from running for office, often by political professionals. This type of discouragement, combined with the prohibitions on using campaign funds for domestic needs like childcare, burdens that still fall disproportionately on American women, particularly disadvantages working mothers. These barriers may explain why only 10 women in history have given birth while serving in Congress, in spite of the prevalence of working parents in other professions. Yet working mothers and fathers are best positioned to create policy that reflects the lived experience of most Americans.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5301/c" id="H3A89158E2FEC4AF5ACB7D3B5B6FE9478" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Purpose</inline>.—</heading><content>It is the purpose of this subtitle to ensure that all Americans who are otherwise qualified to serve this Nation are able to run for office, regardless of their economic status. By expanding permissible uses of campaign funds and providing modest assurance that testing a run for office will not cost one’s livelihood, the Help America Run Act will facilitate the candidacy of representatives who more accurately reflect the experiences, challenges, and ideals of everyday Americans.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5302" id="H75FBD98523AA4EEBAB6E285D25A70AB2"><num value="5302">SEC. 5302. </num><heading>TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS FOR CHILD CARE AND OTHER PERSONAL USE SERVICES AS AUTHORIZED CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5302/a" id="H6972DAD292A7476B99DCE046BD88D14F" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Personal Use Services as Authorized Campaign Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 313 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30114">52 U.S.C. 30114</ref>), as amended by section 5113, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="HC7C4279633E6477585BB7CD722D066FB" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment of Payments for Child Care and Other Personal Use Services as Authorized Campaign Expenditure</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H1D503C72AFAC410397E2DCF81C2970CF" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Authorized expenditures</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of subsection (a), the payment by an authorized committee of a candidate for any of the personal use services described in paragraph (3) shall be treated as an authorized expenditure if the services are necessary to enable the participation of the candidate in campaign-connected activities.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HE83C16CE4681420390F2E3D4B682A795" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limitations</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HF9F4B30070A74DD5A87FB50C2A469521" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limit on total amount of payments</inline>.—</heading><content>The total amount of payments made by an authorized committee of a candidate for personal use services described in paragraph (3) may not exceed the limit which is applicable under any law, rule, or regulation on the amount of payments which may be made by the committee for the salary of the candidate (without regard to whether or not the committee makes payments to the candidate for that purpose).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3F148D65F0FF415EA5B3D5926E0149ED" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Corresponding reduction in amount of salary paid to candidate</inline>.—</heading><content>To the extent that an authorized committee of a candidate makes payments for the salary of the candidate, any limit on the amount of such payments which is applicable under any law, rule, or regulation shall be reduced by the amount of any payments made to or on behalf of the candidate for personal use services described in paragraph (3), other than personal use services described in subparagraph (E) of such paragraph.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1600236ED132493EAA599F14D15CF012" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exclusion of candidates who are officeholders</inline>.—</heading><content>Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to an authorized committee of a candidate who is a holder of Federal office.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H58DE87BA34DD44389477858E80D6FD78" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Personal use services described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The personal use services described in this paragraph are as follows:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HD61FC461762B44B380CA5A6BF885292D" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Child care services.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD3165CC06F1444BAB00DD6C993874331" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Elder care services.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H7D6FF6FF05624E4E914F22611232C9B0" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Services similar to the services described in subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B) which are provided on behalf of any dependent who is a qualifying relative under section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HA47BC56FA3984AE09890E2D2005E1F14" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>Dues, fees, and other expenses required to maintain an license or similar requirement related to an individual’s profession.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H1030E8C2341448CC9BDA67209C168EA0" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>Costs associated with health insurance coverage.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stD/s5302/b" id="HEDC6C25CC24B4CC8A2D2092E95316BDF" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stE" id="H5BBE9F0C7BB043B6B9B7798A978C407A"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tV/stE/s5401" id="HFD43D982F872428192668654A86072E3"><num value="5401">SEC. 5401. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI" id="H856262EB75BA4A33BD142E5A81A8575F"><num value="VI">TITLE VI—</num><heading class="inline">CAMPAIGN FINANCE OVERSIGHT</heading>
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<toc idref="H856262EB75BA4A33BD142E5A81A8575F">
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<referenceItem idref="H1E09243E71B24D9898DD605F89089A65" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Restoring Integrity to America’s Elections</label>
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<referenceItem idref="H850A91165E1A4605B8AF13E86F4AED04" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6001. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H74D1CF3645684519A0C2C8D4F5FC8B3C" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6002. </designator>
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<label>Membership of Federal Election Commission.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H70079089F66B4FF3BE58A8C73694AF1E" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6003. </designator>
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<label>Assignment of powers to Chair of Federal Election Commission.</label>
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<referenceItem idref="H726B89FDB7BF4ACEA28795163A67E37F" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6004. </designator>
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<label>Revision to enforcement process.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H09D8B6F0C2B948BDB7203806C240ABB9" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6005. </designator>
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<label>Permitting appearance at hearings on requests for advisory opinions by persons opposing the requests.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H0CC91C3B6962498E8643993C0FD5F045" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6006. </designator>
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<label>Permanent extension of administrative penalty authority.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HFF03602A7DCD4C07AD786FA85EEF8339" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6007. </designator>
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<label>Restrictions on ex parte communications.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HBDAEDAB4F8BF417A8810E3DB31B2E9B8" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6008. </designator>
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<label>Effective date; transition.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H58CFABE67A8D4E6CB8975DF8896EFB91" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Stopping Super PAC-Candidate Coordination</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HAC54F449C6314E1DA6CC045BD533677B" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6101. </designator>
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H88359EC4DA294EC0A962368EEBCAC267" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6102. </designator>
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<label>Clarification of treatment of coordinated expenditures as contributions to candidates.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H4FCC0137412048FC81CF7A5A41469AC7" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6103. </designator>
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<label>Clarification of ban on fundraising for super PACs by Federal candidates and officeholders.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H3CB0338C961E448A86C95D7377282501" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Severability</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H3BE66827B4E740E394C0D235A0FA15BE" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 6201. </designator>
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<label>Severability.</label>
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</referenceItem></toc>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA" id="H1E09243E71B24D9898DD605F89089A65"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Restoring Integrity to America’s Elections</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6001" id="H850A91165E1A4605B8AF13E86F4AED04"><num value="6001">SEC. 6001. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Restoring Integrity to America’s Elections Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002" id="H74D1CF3645684519A0C2C8D4F5FC8B3C"><num value="6002">SEC. 6002. </num><heading>MEMBERSHIP OF FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a" id="H840A1541E56141378DF97A130BF5D554" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reduction in Number of Members; Removal of Secretary of Senate and Clerk of House as Ex Officio Members</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/1" id="H479197BAE94C43CEB14C2C600BD12D12" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general; quorum</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(a)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/a/1">52 U.S.C. 30106(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the second and third sentences and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following: “<quotedText>The Commission is composed of 5 members appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, of whom no more than 2 may be affiliated with the same political party. A member shall by treated as affiliated with a political party if the member was affiliated, including as a registered voter, employee, consultant, donor, officer, or attorney, with such political party or any of its candidates or elected public officials at any time during the 5-year period ending on the date on which such individual is nominated to be a member of the Commission. A majority of the number of members of the Commission who are serving at the time shall constitute a quorum, except that 3 members shall constitute a quorum if there are 4 members serving at the time.</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2" id="HD8D829ECCFE94D0E975B2DD3D461AB30" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments relating to reduction in number of members</inline>.—</heading><subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/A" id="H4DD83340E73346E8BFC1F2722C4A41BC" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The second sentence of section 306(c) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/c">52 U.S.C. 30106(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>affirmative vote of 4 members of the Commission</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Commission who are serving at the time</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B" id="HFE48885C7C074850B5C5AB1792FB937A" changed="added" origin="#HHA00" class="indent1"><num value="B">(B) </num><chapeau>Such Act is further amended by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>affirmative vote of 4 of its members</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>affirmative vote of a majority of the members of the Commission who are serving at the time</quotedText>” each place it appears in the following sections:</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B/i" id="HAA0B3A488A5048CAB584231F8801454A" class="indent2"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>Section 309(a)(2) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/2">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(2)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B/ii" id="HC2FFB55187CA47178984EFC012EF4103" class="indent2"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>Section 309(a)(4)(A)(i) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/4/A/i">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(4)(A)(i)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B/iii" id="H912A417CE8434335A2C3DEED2EC2297B" class="indent2"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><content>Section 309(a)(5)(C) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/5/C">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(5)(C)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B/iv" id="H0095948D58344C6B872964F9AD0BF7DD" class="indent2"><num value="iv">(iv) </num><content>Section 309(a)(6)(A) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/6/A">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(6)(A)</ref>).</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/2/B/v" id="H2A4FAC3F531C494B956DA64231AB7D82" class="indent2"><num value="v">(v) </num><content>Section 311(b) (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30111/b">52 U.S.C. 30111(b)</ref>).</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/a/3" id="H7BEC66F33B224DBD83070FF64F2BE90F" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to removal of ex officio members</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/a">52 U.S.C. 30106(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(other than the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives)</quotedText>” each place it appears in paragraphs (4) and (5).</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/b" id="H2C1444AB3ABF48CEA885B8E484DC6776" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Terms of Service</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(a)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/a/2">52 U.S.C. 30106(a)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HF4F9704E46874054879A215B1D7DCB2F" styleType="OLC">
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<paragraph id="HC2846C3B0DDF467FB814E53BB4B10568" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Terms of service</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="HD602788A24724AC3876D7E698F7E7199" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Each member of the Commission shall serve for a single term of 6 years.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC5DF285DED0849C78AF7B044796F0C7A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rule for initial appointments</inline>.—</heading><content>Of the members first appointed to serve terms that begin in January 2022, the President shall designate 2 to serve for a 3-year term.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HFB618620288E4B59B736547552B06E58" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No reappointment permitted</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>An individual who served a term as a member of the Commission may not serve for an additional term, except that—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H478B1098A9984D5B881EAC6835F45C29" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>an individual who served a 3-year term under subparagraph (B) may also be appointed to serve a 6-year term under subparagraph (A); and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H93A2855C292343F29709042982352892" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>for purposes of this subparagraph, an individual who is appointed to fill a vacancy under subparagraph (D) shall not be considered to have served a term if the portion of the unexpired term the individual fills is less than 50 percent of the period of the term.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H581D36713A814EBF83A6F22F112CD92A" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Vacancies</inline>.—</heading><content>Any vacancy occurring in the membership of the Commission shall be filled in the same manner as in the case of the original appointment. Except as provided in subparagraph (C), an individual appointed to fill a vacancy occurring other than by the expiration of a term of office shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member he or she succeeds.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H367BCC956AAE42208631A320F3770DDA" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Limitation on service after expiration of term</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A member of the Commission may continue to serve on the Commission after the expiration of the member’s term for an additional period, but only until the earlier of—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H480A01D140F445C582B9FE69391ADB93" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>the date on which the member’s successor has taken office as a member of the Commission; or</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB08F846CEA83410E9C607E77ECF75E51" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>the expiration of the 1-year period that begins on the last day of the member’s term.”</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6002/c" id="HD2F3F7A6F5474A6E90A907582FEBFB27" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualifications</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(a)(3) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/a/3">52 U.S.C. 30106(a)(3)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H430C075C9AB14E4D98AB39BDDF21620A" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Qualifications</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H2A6D9678035B4001BF4C3B4CC4DF9815" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>The President may select an individual for service as a member of the Commission if the individual has experience in election law and has a demonstrated record of integrity, impartiality, and good judgment.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H51922DC2133848A891886748E1647E2D" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Assistance of blue ribbon advisory panel</inline>.—</heading>
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<clause id="H1295DCC03BBC420D86DF175F534B8EB9" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Prior to the regularly scheduled expiration of the term of a member of the Commission and upon the occurrence of a vacancy in the membership of the Commission prior to the expiration of a term, the President shall convene a Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel, consisting of an odd number of individuals selected by the President from retired Federal judges, former law enforcement officials, or individuals with experience in election law, except that the President may not select any individual to serve on the panel who holds any public office at the time of selection.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H9A7178343AC24FB4ACCA3C239CBECFCE" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Recommendations</inline>.—</heading><content>With respect to each member of the Commission whose term is expiring or each vacancy in the membership of the Commission (as the case may be), the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel shall recommend to the President at least one but not more than 3 individuals for nomination for appointment as a member of the Commission.</content></clause>
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<clause id="H32D75A69E48543FAB295A3412BDC7DA7" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Publication</inline>.—</heading><content>At the time the President submits to the Senate the nominations for individuals to be appointed as members of the Commission, the President shall publish the Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel’s recommendations for such nominations.</content></clause>
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<clause id="HB30229C099AC442ABC90F0D6029044BF" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exemption from federal advisory committee act</inline>.—</heading><content>The Federal Advisory Committee Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t5/app">5 U.S.C. App.</ref>) does not apply to a Blue Ribbon Advisory Panel convened under this subparagraph.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H3CCDF3D178EA4E73AC62A2973898D12B" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Prohibiting engagement with other business or employment during service</inline>.—</heading><content>A member of the Commission shall not engage in any other business, vocation, or employment. Any individual who is engaging in any other business, vocation, or employment at the time of his or her appointment to the Commission shall terminate or liquidate such activity no later than 90 days after such appointment.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003" id="H70079089F66B4FF3BE58A8C73694AF1E"><num value="6003">SEC. 6003. </num><heading>ASSIGNMENT OF POWERS TO CHAIR OF FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/a" id="H0F09CD0D2B1C4E668BD5E7B6FD9776DC" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Appointment of Chair by President</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/a/1" id="H6288782D4965466C9F4BB70417544572" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(a)(5) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/a/5">52 U.S.C. 30106(a)(5)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="H3578BCA7A51A458886C2A867A517F034" class="indent1"><num value="5">“(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Chair</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H8BD8F3ACDE164722A416F09B87BA46FA" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Initial appointment</inline>.—</heading><content>Of the members first appointed to serve terms that begin in January 2022, one such member (as designated by the President at the time the President submits nominations to the Senate) shall serve as Chair of the Commission.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HE1909AFF4A7349A6A44BB2429D79A1DC" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Subsequent appointments</inline>.—</heading><content>Any individual who is appointed to succeed the member who serves as Chair of the Commission for the term beginning in January 2022 (as well as any individual who is appointed to fill a vacancy if such member does not serve a full term as Chair) shall serve as Chair of the Commission.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H24B6968EEA2644F4A0A4CDDE4CED17E5" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Vice chair</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall select, by majority vote of its members, one of its members to serve as Vice Chair, who shall act as Chair in the absence or disability of the Chair or in the event of a vacancy in the position of Chair.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/a/2" id="H7408E487FADD46729353D996C212B8A9" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 309(a)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/2">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>through its chairman or vice chairman</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>through the Chair</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b" id="HE3FC42B5D6D84F1FBD54F302F6863B56" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Powers</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/1" id="HD645AB5552CE4F2D885B3B5001912BD3" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Assignment of certain powers to chair</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 307(a) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30107/a">52 U.S.C. 30107(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<subsection id="H2F835E8365B0475987AAD997EF214505" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Distribution of Powers Between Chair and Commission</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H487A4889534B4F8CA36392315D85A852" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Powers assigned to chair</inline>.—</heading>
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<subparagraph id="H653869ED40C84863B2DADAD4A4CFBE68" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Administrative powers</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Chair of the Commission shall be the chief administrative officer of the Commission and shall have the authority to administer the Commission and its staff, and (in consultation with the other members of the Commission) shall have the power—</chapeau>
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<clause id="HA4902A2FFC61484BA05A21CB9164B008" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>to appoint and remove the staff director of the Commission;</content></clause>
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<clause id="HA6D3F8CC0E8845AAB2DFAD6A523BA1CF" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>to request the assistance (including personnel and facilities) of other agencies and departments of the United States, whose heads may make such assistance available to the Commission with or without reimbursement; and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H91AEA6CD22FA4209A7B7CE70FBD67BBD" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>to prepare and establish the budget of the Commission and to make budget requests to the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Congress.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0979219CA9E843B19AB86B167EA1AB3D" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other powers</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Chair of the Commission shall have the power—</chapeau>
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<clause id="H1734F9A940244705B49B63B65C5404E8" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>to appoint and remove the general counsel of the Commission with the concurrence of at least 2 other members of the Commission;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H5E7FBD984DCC4951BE5C1DA8D34BCD2B" class="indent3"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>to require by special or general orders, any person to submit, under oath, such written reports and answers to questions as the Chair may prescribe;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H545CB888E5B7432998A4CDC2FFE94912" class="indent3"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>to administer oaths or affirmations;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H8438FE7E36E24D95AD6342757198C251" class="indent3"><num value="iv">“(iv) </num><content>to require by subpoena, signed by the Chair, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of all documentary evidence relating to the execution of its duties;</content></clause>
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<clause id="H334D824359DD445E9A25A5D3A61DA8FC" class="indent3"><num value="v">“(v) </num><content>in any proceeding or investigation, to order testimony to be taken by deposition before any person who is designated by the Chair, and shall have the power to administer oaths and, in such instances, to compel testimony and the production of evidence in the same manner as authorized under clause (iv); and</content></clause>
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<clause id="H4679FE859ACA4A8EA0DE500AD184B32E" class="indent3"><num value="vi">“(vi) </num><content>to pay witnesses the same fees and mileage as are paid in like circumstances in the courts of the United States.</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H7376D67D6B9E44A3B90F3613A3A297BA" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Powers assigned to commission</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Commission shall have the power—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HF28B73117B514264A67DD26DBB17F943" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>to initiate (through civil actions for injunctive, declaratory, or other appropriate relief), defend (in the case of any civil action brought under section 309(a)(8) of this Act) or appeal (including a proceeding before the Supreme Court on certiorari) any civil action in the name of the Commission to enforce the provisions of this Act and chapter 95 and chapter 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, through its general counsel;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HD733CFB38F254D5FA6086754F2DC8C23" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>to render advisory opinions under section 308 of this Act;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HDC628B6D0519405C9493DE72629C664F" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>to develop such prescribed forms and to make, amend, and repeal such rules, pursuant to the provisions of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/ch5">chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and chapter 95 and chapter 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB487669CC5B947BDAFE93ECEEE8B9AC4" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>to conduct investigations and hearings expeditiously, to encourage voluntary compliance, and to report apparent violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H877C209973504D05A035E088978D3B77" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>to transmit to the President and Congress not later than June 1 of each year a report which states in detail the activities of the Commission in carrying out its duties under this Act, and which includes any recommendations for any legislative or other action the Commission considers appropriate.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H2E572E459D8F48EB9135191F6EEC3DB7" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Permitting commission to exercise other powers of chair</inline>.—</heading><content>With respect to any investigation, action, or proceeding, the Commission, by an affirmative vote of a majority of the members who are serving at the time, may exercise any of the powers of the Chair described in paragraph (1)(B).”</content></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/2" id="H6C4193DCF47B4454AE40CE666F14299D" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendments relating to personnel authority</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 306(f) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/f">52 U.S.C. 30106(f)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/2/A" id="H2E509A0AC59B454996AD7F3CC4995177" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> the first sentence of paragraph (1) to read as follows: “<quotedText>The Commission shall have a staff director who shall be appointed by the Chair of the Commission in consultation with the other members and a general counsel who shall be appointed by the Chair with the concurrence of at least two other members.</quotedText>”;</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/2/B" id="H77CA9BFA192D485A98D2F0A87DD6BB8C" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in paragraph (2), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>With the approval of the Commission</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>With the approval of the Chair of the Commission</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/2/C" id="H716B8A91767242FDA09772C9E93CCCA9" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraph (3).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/3" id="H38EA6D8DBE7342F791F144F4DBC3EDEC" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to budget submission</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 307(d)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30107/d/1">52 U.S.C. 30107(d)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Commission submits any budget</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Chair (or, pursuant to subsection (a)(3), the Commission) submits any budget</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/4" id="H8351189C67A042EA9E67201939505C9F" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Other conforming amendments</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 306(c) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/c">52 U.S.C. 30106(c)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>All decisions</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>Subject to section 307(a), all decisions</quotedText>”.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6003/b/5" id="H147B7BD294754B688E09899304CE6CFD" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Technical amendment</inline>.—</heading><content>The heading of section 307 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30107">52 U.S.C. 30107</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<headingText role="section" styleType="traditional">THE COMMISSION</headingText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<headingText role="section" styleType="traditional">THE CHAIR AND THE COMMISSION</headingText>”.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004" id="H726B89FDB7BF4ACEA28795163A67E37F"><num value="6004">SEC. 6004. </num><heading>REVISION TO ENFORCEMENT PROCESS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/a" id="H9187D1F8C48E45F7BEE36B8D5CE09E82" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Standard for Initiating Investigations and Determining Whether Violations Have Occurred</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/a/1" id="HB223223E81A2448288262B0B5AF507DF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Revision of standards</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 309(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> paragraphs (2) and (3) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> the following:
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<paragraph id="HE34DDAFAAFBA43DD93B61C170F3AE072" class="indent0"><num value="2">“(2)</num><subparagraph id="H15C0B1473C7A4DF9A4470F0E20C625D8" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>The general counsel, upon receiving a complaint filed with the Commission under paragraph (1) or upon the basis of information ascertained by the Commission in the normal course of carrying out its supervisory responsibilities, shall make a determination as to whether or not there is reason to believe that a person has committed, or is about to commit, a violation of this Act or chapter 95 or chapter 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and as to whether or not the Commission should either initiate an investigation of the matter or that the complaint should be dismissed. The general counsel shall promptly provide notification to the Commission of such determination and the reasons therefore, together with any written response submitted under paragraph (1) by the person alleged to have committed the violation. Upon the expiration of the 30-day period which begins on the date the general counsel provides such notification, the general counsel’s determination shall take effect, unless during such 30-day period the Commission, by vote of a majority of the members of the Commission who are serving at the time, overrules the general counsel’s determination. If the determination by the general counsel that the Commission should investigate the matter takes effect, or if the determination by the general counsel that the complaint should be dismissed is overruled as provided under the previous sentence, the general counsel shall initiate an investigation of the matter on behalf of the Commission.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HF3D7D69BC4D142A7A75192FB1097E67C" class="indent0"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>If the Commission initiates an investigation pursuant to subparagraph (A), the Commission, through the Chair, shall notify the subject of the investigation of the alleged violation. Such notification shall set forth the factual basis for such alleged violation. The Commission shall make an investigation of such alleged violation, which may include a field investigation or audit, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The general counsel shall provide notification to the Commission of any intent to issue a subpoena or conduct any other form of discovery pursuant to the investigation. Upon the expiration of the 15-day period which begins on the date the general counsel provides such notification, the general counsel may issue the subpoena or conduct the discovery, unless during such 15-day period the Commission, by vote of a majority of the members of the Commission who are serving at the time, prohibits the general counsel from issuing the subpoena or conducting the discovery.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HB5B3A587CCA843EBBBCAD37BD98C301E" class="indent0"><num value="3">“(3)</num><subparagraph id="H1C95AC39F0B44794B8FDBC383CEFDF1C" class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>Upon completion of an investigation under paragraph (2), the general counsel shall promptly submit to the Commission the general counsel’s recommendation that the Commission find either that there is probable cause or that there is not probable cause to believe that a person has committed, or is about to commit, a violation of this Act or chapter 95 or chapter 96 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and shall include with the recommendation a brief stating the position of the general counsel on the legal and factual issues of the case.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HE802767655E8459D98267E099032EBF1" class="indent0"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>At the time the general counsel submits to the Commission the recommendation under subparagraph (A), the general counsel shall simultaneously notify the respondent of such recommendation and the reasons therefore, shall provide the respondent with an opportunity to submit a brief within 30 days stating the position of the respondent on the legal and factual issues of the case and replying to the brief of the general counsel. The general counsel and shall promptly submit such brief to the Commission upon receipt.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H219AF52665B94CCFBC9A9EBB6FC69B48" class="indent0"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Not later than 30 days after the general counsel submits the recommendation to the Commission under subparagraph (A) (or, if the respondent submits a brief under subparagraph (B), not later than 30 days after the general counsel submits the respondent’s brief to the Commission under such subparagraph), the Commission shall approve or disapprove the recommendation by vote of a majority of the members of the Commission who are serving at the time.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/a/2" id="H7ACFA408663E4B9E89F4BE6747EE7344" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming amendment relating to initial response to filing of complaint</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 309(a)(1) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/1">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/a/2/A" id="H0D9E36F2BF364A46BFE7B38F834B98C1" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>in the third sentence, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Commission</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the general counsel</quotedText>”; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/a/2/B" id="H316B5DE34AC64DD5828BA60433689C5B" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="amend">amending</amendingAction> the fourth sentence to read as follows: “<quotedText>Not later than 15 days after receiving notice from the general counsel under the previous sentence, the person may provide the general counsel with a written response that no action should be taken against such person on the basis of the complaint.</quotedText>”.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/b" id="HF2E7CE3218714121A6E23E5ECAECFC3F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Revision of Standard for Review of Dismissal of Complaints</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/b/1" id="H86651EE839A1455991834FB375CC4B70" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 309(a)(8) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/8">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(8)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<paragraph id="HAAFE083D5BC44A23AAD064E9B7EDA4D9" class="indent0"><num value="8">“(8)</num><subparagraph id="H9D9C6177B24046F295591248B704EE28" class="inline"><num value="A">(A)</num><clause id="HC5F2DBAF770649C08206D2C7E31FBD53" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>Any party aggrieved by an order of the Commission dismissing a complaint filed by such party after finding either no reason to believe a violation has occurred or no probable cause a violation has occurred may file a petition with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Any petition under this subparagraph shall be filed within 60 days after the date on which the party received notice of the dismissal of the complaint.</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HE07FF4A63D5348D98262372674640DBD" class="indent0"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>In any proceeding under this subparagraph, the court shall determine by de novo review whether the agency’s dismissal of the complaint is contrary to law. In any matter in which the penalty for the alleged violation is greater than $50,000, the court should disregard any claim or defense by the Commission of prosecutorial discretion as a basis for dismissing the complaint.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H7B9C3CF259734CB997843BC020C58C3C" class="indent0"><num value="B">“(B)</num><clause id="H05345DBAEB004AED9E7A0D3AE56CF19D" class="inline"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>Any party who has filed a complaint with the Commission and who is aggrieved by a failure of the Commission, within one year after the filing of the complaint, to either dismiss the complaint or to find reason to believe a violation has occurred or is about to occur, may file a petition with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.</content></clause>
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<clause changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H482690187AA6433398DCB76D2C751351" class="indent0"><num value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>In any proceeding under this subparagraph, the court shall treat the failure to act on the complaint as a dismissal of the complaint, and shall determine by de novo review whether the agency’s failure to act on the complaint is contrary to law.</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H40FEE35B33D84AF58129964D89CC8BA6" class="indent0"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>In any proceeding under this paragraph the court may declare that the dismissal of the complaint or the failure to act is contrary to law, and may direct the Commission to conform with such declaration within 30 days, failing which the complainant may bring, in the name of such complainant, a civil action to remedy the violation involved in the original complaint.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/b/2" id="H0AD79B6918084EE1A3DF350714DFC780" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The amendments made by paragraph (1) shall apply—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/b/2/A" id="H632C347FB3E44984AC949CCAE49ADF2D" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>in the case of complaints which are dismissed by the Federal Election Commission, with respect to complaints which are dismissed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6004/b/2/B" id="H19A089E529534CE895F68D90136F59C0" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>in the case of complaints upon which the Federal Election Commission failed to act, with respect to complaints which were filed on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6005" id="H09D8B6F0C2B948BDB7203806C240ABB9"><num value="6005">SEC. 6005. </num><heading>PERMITTING APPEARANCE AT HEARINGS ON REQUESTS FOR ADVISORY OPINIONS BY PERSONS OPPOSING THE REQUESTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6005/a" id="H4B916085ED534E55954DA88ACF138748" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 308 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30108">52 U.S.C. 30108</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<subsection id="H3C43A5532B8D40F89E66E319F665A5AB" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><content>To the extent that the Commission provides an opportunity for a person requesting an advisory opinion under this section (or counsel for such person) to appear before the Commission to present testimony in support of the request, and the person (or counsel) accepts such opportunity, the Commission shall provide a reasonable opportunity for an interested party who submitted written comments under subsection (d) in response to the request (or counsel for such interested party) to appear before the Commission to present testimony in response to the request.”</content></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6005/b" id="H427EC69E887840F6BA131BB85FBF7FA2" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to requests for advisory opinions under section 308 of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 which are made on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6006" id="H0CC91C3B6962498E8643993C0FD5F045"><num value="6006">SEC. 6006. </num><heading>PERMANENT EXTENSION OF ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY AUTHORITY.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6006/a" id="H8C5BDCC15BF541239BA9EC98395A662A" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Extension of Authority</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 309(a)(4)(C)(v) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30109/a/4/C/v">52 U.S.C. 30109(a)(4)(C)(v)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>, and that end on or before December 31, 2023</quotedText>”.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6006/b" id="H1AEC4361947E4EACBABB10377E7ADE25" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect on December 31, 2018.</content></subsection></section>
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<section role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6007" id="HFF03602A7DCD4C07AD786FA85EEF8339"><num value="6007">SEC. 6007. </num><heading>RESTRICTIONS ON EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">Section 306(e) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30106/e">52 U.S.C. 30106(e)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6007/1" id="HF325A85B0083432EA4FFD4006FBF14B0" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(e) The Commission</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>(e)(1) The Commission</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6007/2" id="H109D649D81E0458A9ACE0FFF6AF1AD2F" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<paragraph id="H35D0EADAA3BE446CAFB927B377B4F1C2" class="indent0"><num value="2">“(2) </num><content>Members and employees of the Commission shall be subject to limitations on ex parte communications, as provided in the regulations promulgated by the Commission regarding such communications which are in effect on the date of the enactment of this paragraph.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6008" id="HBDAEDAB4F8BF417A8810E3DB31B2E9B8"><num value="6008">SEC. 6008. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE; TRANSITION.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6008/a" id="H5BAD6A486E48422BA4CA32F12914D72B" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><content>Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made by this subtitle shall apply beginning January 1, 2022.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6008/b" id="H614066AA6DDF4F2F9CD32C0DFB03C77F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Transition</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6008/b/1" id="HB649A41FD5CC4EA894E28B9C31CD6C6F" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Termination of service of current members</inline>.—</heading><content>Notwithstanding any provision of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the term of any individual serving as a member of the Federal Election Commission as of December 31, 2021, shall expire on that date.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stA/s6008/b/2" id="H0338020E29DA494684C77B1C58B1BEC3" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on existing cases or proceedings</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this subtitle or in any amendment made by this subtitle shall affect any of the powers exercised by the Federal Election Commission prior to December 31, 2021, including any investigation initiated by the Commission prior to such date or any proceeding (including any enforcement action) pending as of such date.</content></paragraph></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB" id="H58CFABE67A8D4E6CB8975DF8896EFB91"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Stopping Super PAC-Candidate Coordination</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6101" id="HAC54F449C6314E1DA6CC045BD533677B"><num value="6101">SEC. 6101. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Stop Super PAC–Candidate Coordination Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102" id="H88359EC4DA294EC0A962368EEBCAC267"><num value="6102">SEC. 6102. </num><heading>CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT OF COORDINATED EXPENDITURES AS CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/a" id="H46A43BCE53664416A5AC826A525B33C8" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Treatment as Contribution to Candidate</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 301(8)(A) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/8/A">52 U.S.C. 30101(8)(A)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/a/1" id="H2980087BE4244983AA4A502AE1451539" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or</quotedText>” at the end of clause (i);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/a/2" id="H45338965BE3440B09038F406D20BDB9D" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of clause (ii) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; or</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/a/3" id="H642C9A47FBB345A79E458AD832285DD8" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new clause:
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<clause id="H76D7D29B9CD943E38C620C4276228B1F" class="indent2"><num value="iii">“(iii) </num><content>any payment made by any person (other than a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, or a political committee of a political party) for a coordinated expenditure (as such term is defined in section 326) which is not otherwise treated as a contribution under clause (i) or clause (ii).”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/b" id="H89E517519A2A44C084F2360F6E78FC32" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Definitions</inline>.—</heading><content>Title III of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30101/etseq">52 U.S.C. 30101 et seq.</ref>), as amended by section 4702(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new section:
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<section id="H71653385D7BE4BED8AC09410F6D15DDC"><num value="326">“SEC. 326. </num><heading>PAYMENTS FOR COORDINATED EXPENDITURES.</heading>
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<subsection id="HB61695BE4E0F4C5CB5EC0190C7FD2C48" class="indent0"><num value="a">“(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordinated Expenditures</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H9AA17394F6334748B4201A84C16501BF" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of section 301(8)(A)(iii), the term ‘<term>coordinated expenditure</term>’ means—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H50B7D005E15948939324617D504AC907" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>any expenditure, or any payment for a covered communication described in subsection (d), which is made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, a political committee of a political party, or agents of the candidate or committee, as defined in subsection (b); or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC70F06C417994FC28ED8711C6553A538" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>any payment for any communication which republishes, disseminates, or distributes, in whole or in part, any video or broadcast or any written, graphic, or other form of campaign material prepared by the candidate or committee or by agents of the candidate or committee (including any excerpt or use of any video from any such broadcast or written, graphic, or other form of campaign material).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H1AE218C76CBE4E2FBDCB6622C1CBC6A9" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Exception for payments for certain communications</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>A payment for a communication (including a covered communication described in subsection (d)) shall not be treated as a coordinated expenditure under this subsection if—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H05F9611B98454F62864FDCBB2F06830F" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>the communication appears in a news story, commentary, or editorial distributed through the facilities of any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, unless such facilities are owned or controlled by any political party, political committee, or candidate; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HCB6ECB0DDBEB4EC4B7C91CD574009A07" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>the communication constitutes a candidate debate or forum conducted pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission pursuant to section 304(f)(3)(B)(iii), or which solely promotes such a debate or forum and is made by or on behalf of the person sponsoring the debate or forum.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HB423C668377D4AABB5C49FDCF5C7E08A" class="indent0"><num value="b">“(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordination Described</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H57E8C69ECFCD49AA82D8A53A143FC7E6" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this section, a payment is made ‘in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of,’ a candidate, an authorized committee of a candidate, a political committee of a political party, or agents of the candidate or committee, if the payment, or any communication for which the payment is made, is not made entirely independently of the candidate, committee, or agents. For purposes of the previous sentence, a payment or communication not made entirely independently of the candidate or committee includes any payment or communication made pursuant to any general or particular understanding with, or pursuant to any communication with, the candidate, committee, or agents about the payment or communication.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H7EA97DA6553043AEB3C416277F11FB38" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No finding of coordination based solely on sharing of information regarding legislative or policy position</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this section, a payment shall not be considered to be made by a person in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate or committee, solely on the grounds that the person or the person’s agent engaged in discussions with the candidate or committee, or with any agent of the candidate or committee, regarding that person’s position on a legislative or policy matter (including urging the candidate or committee to adopt that person’s position), so long as there is no communication between the person and the candidate or committee, or any agent of the candidate or committee, regarding the candidate’s or committee’s campaign advertising, message, strategy, policy, polling, allocation of resources, fundraising, or other campaign activities.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H037E9BA2CF854F82AC4811A55F95E6BE" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No effect on party coordination standard</inline>.—</heading><content>Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the determination of coordination between a candidate and a political committee of a political party for purposes of section 315(d).</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H68B4926F46FE4356B7A775CEADAEFFDF" class="indent1"><num value="4">“(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">No safe harbor for use of firewall</inline>.—</heading><content>A person shall be determined to have made a payment in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate or committee, in accordance with this section without regard to whether or not the person established and used a firewall or similar procedures to restrict the sharing of information between individuals who are employed by or who are serving as agents for the person making the payment.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="H2EC2023E05024A8A9949DA6C08CCA7EE" class="indent0"><num value="c">“(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payments by Coordinated Spenders for Covered Communications</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="H70C03DF87A3E42FF95FF61F6CABA3E62" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Payments made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with candidates</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of subsection (a)(1)(A), if the person who makes a payment for a covered communication, as defined in subsection (d), is a coordinated spender under paragraph (2) with respect to the candidate as described in subsection (d)(1), the payment for the covered communication is made in cooperation, consultation, or concert with the candidate.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="HF55A27A2E95146A2B01D194FC3F5EAAD" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Coordinated spender defined</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this subsection, the term ‘<term>coordinated spender</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate or an authorized committee of a candidate, a person (other than a political committee of a political party) for which any of the following applies:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H700ED0A158F249AE81312C4D6DFDCC61" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>During the 4-year period ending on the date on which the person makes the payment, the person was directly or indirectly formed or established by or at the request or suggestion of, or with the encouragement of, the candidate (including an individual who later becomes a candidate) or committee or agents of the candidate or committee, including with the approval of the candidate or committee or agents of the candidate or committee.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HC362B3CF00D94951A65EEBBB2A78ACE6" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>The candidate or committee or any agent of the candidate or committee solicits funds, appears at a fundraising event, or engages in other fundraising activity on the person’s behalf during the election cycle involved, including by providing the person with names of potential donors or other lists to be used by the person in engaging in fundraising activity, regardless of whether the person pays fair market value for the names or lists provided. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘<term>election cycle</term>’ means, with respect to an election for Federal office, the period beginning on the day after the date of the most recent general election for that office (or, if the general election resulted in a runoff election, the date of the runoff election) and ending on the date of the next general election for that office (or, if the general election resulted in a runoff election, the date of the runoff election).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H9A4B8717F4524CC3883C9765FFE0DAD4" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>The person is established, directed, or managed by the candidate or committee or by any person who, during the 4-year period ending on the date on which the person makes the payment, has been employed or retained as a political, campaign media, or fundraising adviser or consultant for the candidate or committee or for any other entity directly or indirectly controlled by the candidate or committee, or has held a formal position with the candidate or committee (including a position as an employee of the office of the candidate at any time the candidate held any Federal, State, or local public office during the 4-year period).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H2267319B46AD4F1F8709E8640ACA5CD0" class="indent2"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>The person has retained the professional services of any person who, during the 2-year period ending on the date on which the person makes the payment, has provided or is providing professional services relating to the campaign to the candidate or committee, without regard to whether the person providing the professional services used a firewall. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘<term>professional services</term>’ includes any services in support of the candidate’s or committee’s campaign activities, including advertising, message, strategy, policy, polling, allocation of resources, fundraising, and campaign operations, but does not include accounting or legal services.</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0951F91A857747B48036D0B96FFFCAC4" class="indent2"><num value="E">“(E) </num><content>The person is established, directed, or managed by a member of the immediate family of the candidate, or the person or any officer or agent of the person has had more than incidental discussions about the candidate’s campaign with a member of the immediate family of the candidate. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘<term>immediate family</term>’ has the meaning given such term in section 9004(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HF37D9837BD6C427AB539E3B9B99F79BA" class="indent0"><num value="d">“(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Covered Communication Defined</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph role="definitions" id="H1F2006675CEC4AF593C8D2986BA40A81" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>For purposes of this section, the term ‘<term>covered communication</term>’ means, with respect to a candidate or an authorized committee of a candidate, a public communication (as defined in section 301(22)) which—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H72B584A030404DB3A85437BE3F564496" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>expressly advocates the election of the candidate or the defeat of an opponent of the candidate (or contains the functional equivalent of express advocacy);</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H5FFC614E35B645F1ACDEAC7CB83E1ED2" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>promotes or supports the election of the candidate, or attacks or opposes the election of an opponent of the candidate (regardless of whether the communication expressly advocates the election or defeat of a candidate or contains the functional equivalent of express advocacy); or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H4E2A7A498741474D9DF41F05FC8CD288" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>refers to the candidate or an opponent of the candidate but is not described in subparagraph (A) or subparagraph (B), but only if the communication is disseminated during the applicable election period.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HC256AD924A39463684032E0CD307C14B" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Applicable election period</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>In paragraph (1)(C), the ‘applicable election period’ with respect to a communication means—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HC77513944E8243F4A9B9E7CEC12AE8C7" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate in a general, special, or runoff election, the 120-day period which ends on the date of the election; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="HB9DD6F6C94154DFAB2CCD0DEC23ADDCE" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in the case of a communication which refers to a candidate in a primary or preference election, or convention or caucus of a political party that has authority to nominate a candidate, the 60-day period which ends on the date of the election or convention or caucus.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HA6F3DB4CF73C4335AACD886FA1F38999" class="indent1"><num value="3">“(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Special rules for communications involving congressional candidates</inline>.—</heading><content>For purposes of this subsection, a public communication shall not be considered to be a covered communication with respect to a candidate for election for an office other than the office of President or Vice President unless it is publicly disseminated or distributed in the jurisdiction of the office the candidate is seeking.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection id="HD2831515043446DD8C18D00D5FEEC607" class="indent0"><num value="e">“(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Penalty</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HA6D75498A1DD4FC0807F383E89CE53C8" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Determination of amount</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Any person who knowingly and willfully commits a violation of this Act by making a contribution which consists of a payment for a coordinated expenditure shall be fined an amount equal to the greater of—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="H74A8885AC11B48ECB54FB789E04A6287" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>in the case of a person who makes a contribution which consists of a payment for a coordinated expenditure in an amount exceeding the applicable contribution limit under this Act, 300 percent of the amount by which the amount of the payment made by the person exceeds such applicable contribution limit; or</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H0218CE4C9DB74E6B8650CC02B092B905" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>in the case of a person who is prohibited under this Act from making a contribution in any amount, 300 percent of the amount of the payment made by the person for the coordinated expenditure.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="HC343E2E80FEB4EA6BAEE78C948FCB489" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Joint and several liability</inline>.—</heading><content>Any director, manager, or officer of a person who is subject to a penalty under paragraph (1) shall be jointly and severally liable for any amount of such penalty that is not paid by the person prior to the expiration of the 1-year period which begins on the date the Commission imposes the penalty or the 1-year period which begins on the date of the final judgment following any judicial review of the Commission’s action, whichever is later.”</content></paragraph></subsection></section></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/c" id="H0E1D7F19709D437A9CC31F2FEB9279EB" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/c/1" id="H3F37A5EDFC554E099888D259F8C5230C" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Repeal of existing regulations on coordination</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Effective upon the expiration of the 90-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/c/1/A" id="H4BE5198252364DB58B42B3A86FEB49FE" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>the regulations on coordinated communications adopted by the Federal Election Commission which are in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act (as set forth in <ref href="/us/cfr/t11/pt109">11 CFR Part 109</ref>, Subpart C, under the heading “<headingText>Coordination</headingText>”) are <amendingAction type="repeal">repealed</amendingAction>; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/c/1/B" id="H6B184F001469480E9D9C0D3BFDE3473E" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>the Federal Election Commission shall promulgate new regulations on coordinated communications which reflect the amendments made by this Act.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6102/c/2" id="HCD6A910A9B4E476E89CEE60B68122740" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to payments made on or after the expiration of the 120-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act, without regard to whether or not the Federal Election Commission has promulgated regulations in accordance with paragraph (1)(B) as of the expiration of such period.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103" id="H4FCC0137412048FC81CF7A5A41469AC7"><num value="6103">SEC. 6103. </num><heading>CLARIFICATION OF BAN ON FUNDRAISING FOR SUPER PACS BY FEDERAL CANDIDATES AND OFFICEHOLDERS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103/a" id="HCBD95EEA72D34C499E2FFBC5E236CA58" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 323(e)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30125/e/1">52 U.S.C. 30125(e)(1)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103/a/1" id="H3DC23AE665BD44C4AB2D52364D3EECBF" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>or</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (A);</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103/a/2" id="H5E29FB2AC60D41DF83C3B8246725FF8C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; or</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103/a/3" id="HDFA76E43FFBD4C2A9465CB1683C70786" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H2587294E72904D3C866D5A0143154189" styleType="OLC">
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<subparagraph id="H99F7B7D848AD44B28DA6ECE9A61CFE8A" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>solicit, receive, direct, or transfer funds to or on behalf of any political committee which accepts donations or contributions that do not comply with the limitations, prohibitions, and reporting requirements of this Act (or to or on behalf of any account of a political committee which is established for the purpose of accepting such donations or contributions), or to or on behalf of any political organization under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which accepts such donations or contributions (other than a committee of a State or local political party or a candidate for election for State or local office).”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stB/s6103/b" id="HF2F20857C23E4193B39E37F04A26BACD" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to elections occurring after January 1, 2020.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stC" id="H3CB0338C961E448A86C95D7377282501"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dB/tVI/stC/s6201" id="H3BE66827B4E740E394C0D235A0FA15BE"><num value="6201">SEC. 6201. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title></division>
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<division identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC" id="HDCC2839245C14A23B6B26577CBE6DA21"><num value="C">DIVISION C—</num><heading>ETHICS</heading>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tVII" id="H3A2EA77310DF4DC48BB898EA4F9F5A11"><num value="VII">TITLE VII—</num><heading class="inline">[RESERVED]</heading></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tVIII" id="H1F191F9E18DB4E8C9F4658680403A173"><num value="VIII">TITLE VIII—</num><heading class="inline">[RESERVED]</heading></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX" id="H57723AB37CE949B59A04539D27633BD5"><num value="IX">TITLE IX—</num><heading class="inline">CONGRESSIONAL ETHICS REFORM</heading>
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<toc idref="H57723AB37CE949B59A04539D27633BD5">
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<referenceItem idref="H58B6BE7E0C5449A889B022DD9A20AF99" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle A—</designator><label>Requiring Members of Congress to Reimburse Treasury for Amounts Paid as Settlements and Awards Under Congressional Accountability Act of 1995</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H81EE79A3597847908E934DB2535C7327" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9001. </designator>
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<label>Requiring Members of Congress to reimburse Treasury for amounts paid as settlements and awards under Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 in all cases of employment discrimination acts by Members.</label>
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="H9D868557B88D4506BD8BC154383C2187" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle B—</designator><label>Conflicts of Interests</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HB4079C4CB69C46D9ADB7ED69CB0BD3A2" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9101. </designator>
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<label>[Reserved].</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H2A33E658682D4808901BB444840E01C0" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9102. </designator>
|
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<label>Conflict of interest rules for Members of Congress and congressional staff.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HFA5B63F39B3347228DFF4682C47E88F6" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9103. </designator>
|
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<label>Exercise of rulemaking powers.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H99E3B29FA383426188DC7CCDBAEBBD61" role="subtitle">
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<designator>Subtitle C—</designator><label>Campaign Finance and Lobbying Disclosure</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H6DA4BC53771F4F87B7CE9D792DA78374" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9201. </designator>
|
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<label>Short title.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H53BE1102ED5942A19B506E906BFB7C56" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9202. </designator>
|
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<label>Requiring disclosure in certain reports filed with Federal Election Commission of persons who are registered lobbyists.</label>
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HB069F559F909430F9615C0EE367F6799" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9203. </designator>
|
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<label>Effective date.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H43BBE05D243F4A24AA73DBC2E750EA9D" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle D—</designator><label>Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H05734357B2954643A70DE79076138473" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9301. </designator>
|
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<label>Short title.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="H9FFC5C82AA594B7FA9D9780CFB55126A" role="section">
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<designator>Sec. 9302. </designator>
|
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<label>Definitions.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HC415CC4A46B54B40A8E902DA7FEC00A4" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9303. </designator>
|
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<label>Establishment of online portal for congressionally mandated reports.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HE2698EB1860F4CF6951E973B5B4EDB89" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9304. </designator>
|
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<label>Federal agency responsibilities.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HCF2233BF720544CAB47EE7FD298401E8" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9305. </designator>
|
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<label>Removing and altering reports.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="H64A44A4DC9E54B3CAF596FDBE9205470" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9306. </designator>
|
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<label>Relationship to the Freedom of Information Act.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem>
|
||
<referenceItem idref="H37E566FBD2B5475C936464AB842955A0" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9307. </designator>
|
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<label>Implementation.</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
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<referenceItem idref="HD940DD1133A5475C9E0BAC19BB839B7A" role="subtitle">
|
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<designator>Subtitle E—</designator><label>Severability</label>
|
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</referenceItem>
|
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<referenceItem idref="HD3F2A7FE30CC43218B719DC175F42AE6" role="section">
|
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<designator>Sec. 9401. </designator>
|
||
<label>Severability.</label>
|
||
</referenceItem></toc>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stA" id="H58B6BE7E0C5449A889B022DD9A20AF99"><num value="A">Subtitle A—</num><heading>Requiring Members of Congress to Reimburse Treasury for Amounts Paid as Settlements and Awards Under Congressional Accountability Act of 1995</heading>
|
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stA/s9001" id="H81EE79A3597847908E934DB2535C7327"><num value="9001">SEC. 9001. </num><heading>REQUIRING MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO REIMBURSE TREASURY FOR AMOUNTS PAID AS SETTLEMENTS AND AWARDS UNDER CONGRESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 1995 IN ALL CASES OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION ACTS BY MEMBERS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stA/s9001/a" id="H658F806F692848F4A8756F42FA3362F6" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Reimbursement</inline>.—</heading><content>Clause (i) of section 415(d)(1)(C) of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (<ref href="/us/usc/t2/s1415/d/1/C">2 U.S.C. 1415(d)(1)(C)</ref>), as amended by section 111(a) of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HEF81D4D65D46473AAC478C9BCEE08A93" styleType="OLC">
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<clause id="H4B58262E10A6436A891D7DCE1DC48789" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>a violation of section 201(a) or section 206(a); or”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stA/s9001/b" id="H2C5E5C1BEC5D4741AD4B13500D98A10F" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Conforming Amendment Relating to Notification of Possibility of Reimbursement</inline>.—</heading><content>Clause (i) of section 402(b)(2)(B) of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (<ref href="/us/usc/t2/s1402/b/2/B">2 U.S.C. 1402(b)(2)(B)</ref>), as amended by section 102(a) of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HDD1970988ACE42849F916FC4074ECD7B" styleType="OLC">
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<clause id="HB6550C134E9B4DA58155BC04BB112D5C" class="indent3"><num value="i">“(i) </num><content>a violation of section 201(a) or section 206(a); or”</content></clause></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stA/s9001/c" id="HD7480D60296A4CB9B0E10073C588D9F8" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Effective Date</inline>.—</heading><content>The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 Reform Act.</content></subsection></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB" id="H9D868557B88D4506BD8BC154383C2187"><num value="B">Subtitle B—</num><heading>Conflicts of Interests</heading>
|
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB/s9101" id="HB4079C4CB69C46D9ADB7ED69CB0BD3A2"><num value="9101">SEC. 9101. </num><heading>[RESERVED].</heading><content/></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB/s9102" id="H2A33E658682D4808901BB444840E01C0"><num value="9102">SEC. 9102. </num><heading>CONFLICT OF INTEREST RULES FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND CONGRESSIONAL STAFF.</heading><content class="block">No Member, officer, or employee of a committee or Member of either House of Congress may knowingly use his or her official position to introduce or aid the progress or passage of legislation, a principal purpose of which is to further only his or her pecuniary interest, only the pecuniary interest of his or her immediate family, or only the pecuniary interest of a limited class of persons or enterprises, when he or she, or his or her immediate family, or enterprises controlled by them, are members of the affected class.</content></section>
|
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB/s9103" id="HFA5B63F39B3347228DFF4682C47E88F6"><num value="9103">SEC. 9103. </num><heading>EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS.</heading>
|
||
<chapeau class="indent0">The provisions of this subtitle are enacted by the Congress—</chapeau>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB/s9103/1" id="H1B1FFC599AD24C30B7CB6CDBCBAF0FAB" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively, and as such they shall be considered as part of the rules of each House, respectively, or of that House to which they specifically apply, and such rules shall supersede other rules only to the extent that they are inconsistent therewith; and</content></paragraph>
|
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stB/s9103/2" id="HF4ADBE64BC9940FCBF9D7DA712B5E6D9" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>with full recognition of the constitutional right of either House to change such rules (so far as relating to such House) at any time, in the same manner, and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of such House.</content></paragraph></section></subtitle>
|
||
<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC" id="H99E3B29FA383426188DC7CCDBAEBBD61"><num value="C">Subtitle C—</num><heading>Campaign Finance and Lobbying Disclosure</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9201" id="H6DA4BC53771F4F87B7CE9D792DA78374"><num value="9201">SEC. 9201. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Connecting Lobbyists and Electeds for Accountability and Reform Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">CLEAR Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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||
<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202" id="H53BE1102ED5942A19B506E906BFB7C56"><num value="9202">SEC. 9202. </num><heading>REQUIRING DISCLOSURE IN CERTAIN REPORTS FILED WITH FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION OF PERSONS WHO ARE REGISTERED LOBBYISTS.</heading>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/a" id="HA54D134B29834FDE8469C05DABFF80B7" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports Filed by Political Committees</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 304(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/b">52 U.S.C. 30104(b)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/a/1" id="H2D9FE4DDECC44E9EABC8382D079A67ED" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of paragraph (7);</content></paragraph>
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||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/a/2" id="H9399B352EA0047DE894E77EAFD11B134" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of paragraph (8) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/a/3" id="HF6827B6B394E4646B64315266FB19126" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new paragraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="HA8BA946289CF47238B4AFF2072E540FE" styleType="traditional">
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<paragraph id="H7EEA774FD71F455E823AC74647388848" class="indent1"><num value="9">“(9) </num><content>if any person identified in subparagraph (A), (E), (F), or (G) of paragraph (3) is a registered lobbyist under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, a separate statement that such person is a registered lobbyist under such Act.”</content></paragraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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||
<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/b" id="H39020C3BAC3742ECB2370E12F41D39D9" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports Filed by Persons Making Independent Expenditures</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Section 304(c)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/c/2">52 U.S.C. 30104(c)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau>
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||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/b/1" id="H9EAA487DBF78472082AF23AA599A742D" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>and</quotedText>” at the end of subparagraph (B);</content></paragraph>
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||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/b/2" id="H8DFF4F7A43A248FB82B0BB036CB24A2C" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>”; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/b/3" id="HEC62D6F5405D458DB7E38539CCCB0127" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H2E8EDF5ADD914FAD93AB48459A141D16" styleType="traditional">
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<subparagraph id="H4A8CC56FE2534AD6B43E6862BD2F8379" class="indent1"><num value="D">“(D) </num><content>if the person filing the statement, or a person whose identification is required to be disclosed under subparagraph (C), is a registered lobbyist under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, a separate statement that such person is a registered lobbyist under such Act.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></paragraph></subsection>
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||
<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/c" id="H062D7A8AE02A4202B43C6F1468204BC4" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports Filed by Persons Making Disbursements for Electioneering Communications</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304(f)(2) of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104/f/2">52 U.S.C. 30104(f)(2)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subparagraph:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H6B9E44FF9568477789ABE1D4409AAC8C" styleType="OLC">
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<subparagraph id="H193336FF6FF84EA496875385AAC71546" class="indent2"><num value="G">“(G) </num><content>If the person making the disbursement, or a contributor described in subparagraph (E) or (F), is a registered lobbyist under the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995, a separate statement that such person or contributor is a registered lobbyist under such Act.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection>
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<subsection role="instruction" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9202/d" id="H5F0F0C18293644B2931FA2B3F3C95054" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Commission to Establish Link to Websites of Clerk of House and Secretary of Senate</inline>.—</heading><content>Section 304 of such Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t52/s30104">52 U.S.C. 30104</ref>), as amended by section 4308(a), <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following new subsection:
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<quotedContent changed="added" origin="#HHA00" id="H07C266517B0F4E3CAA4E8275507FB18C" styleType="OLC">
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<subsection id="HF3564BEEEDDE4038B54A0DB49A531E31" class="indent0"><num value="k">“(k) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requiring Information on Registered Lobbyists to Be Linked to Websites of Clerk of House and Secretary of Senate</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph id="HEB288F2D6E6C4DB4B06865C28E9F03D4" class="indent1"><num value="1">“(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Links to websites</inline>.—</heading><content>The Commission shall ensure that the Commission’s public database containing information described in paragraph (2) is linked electronically to the websites maintained by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives containing information filed pursuant to the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph id="H797CECFC1A72484EBC76A2BD46CCB035" class="indent1"><num value="2">“(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Information described</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The information described in this paragraph is each of the following:</chapeau>
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<subparagraph id="HA4282D301EB843FD98C463FA37BFF793" class="indent2"><num value="A">“(A) </num><content>Information disclosed under paragraph (9) of subsection (b).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H6A52E58C65C241A3BDFBE4DAA99E9F2A" class="indent2"><num value="B">“(B) </num><content>Information disclosed under subparagraph (D) of subsection (c)(2).</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph id="H49AF69952AD147FEBB4EA56215B57D48" class="indent2"><num value="C">“(C) </num><content>Information disclosed under subparagraph (G) of subsection (f)(2).”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></quotedContent><inline role="after-quoted-block">.</inline></content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stC/s9203" id="HB069F559F909430F9615C0EE367F6799"><num value="9203">SEC. 9203. </num><heading>EFFECTIVE DATE.</heading><content class="block">The amendments made by this subtitle shall apply with respect to reports required to be filed under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 on or after the expiration of the 90-day period which begins on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD" id="H43BBE05D243F4A24AA73DBC2E750EA9D"><num value="D">Subtitle D—</num><heading>Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9301" id="H05734357B2954643A70DE79076138473"><num value="9301">SEC. 9301. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content class="block">This subtitle may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="subtitle">Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302" id="H9FFC5C82AA594B7FA9D9780CFB55126A"><num value="9302">SEC. 9302. </num><heading>DEFINITIONS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">In this subtitle:</chapeau>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/1" id="HFDC9340FF76341FA9A445616F200BCF8" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Congressionally mandated report</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>congressionally mandated report</term>”—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/1/A" id="HDCE9E8702FD54198B8896BE5659C3F2D" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>means a report that is required to be submitted to either House of Congress or any committee of Congress, or subcommittee thereof, by a statute, resolution, or conference report that accompanies legislation enacted into law; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/1/B" id="HF7754F6DACA44C7BB146DAA893E85FB9" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>does not include a report required under <ref href="/us/usc/t36/stII/ptB">part B of subtitle II of title 36, United States Code</ref>.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/2" id="H3F6F6F24F159491C86D14FE4BF868BC2" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Director</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Director</term>” means the Director of the Government Publishing Office.</content></paragraph>
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||
<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/3" id="H47D5F1F9D8D94B71AB542765EA58249C" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Federal agency</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>Federal agency</term>” has the meaning given that term under <ref href="/us/usc/t40/s102">section 102 of title 40, United States Code</ref>, but does not include the Government Accountability Office.</content></paragraph>
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||
<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/4" id="HCAFEBFF3CC624A59A36BFF17EC6EE648" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Open format</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The term “<term>open format</term>” means a file format for storing digital data based on an underlying open standard that—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/4/A" id="H5B02E4EC6BE24C1FB199259F28AA558B" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>is not encumbered by any restrictions that would impede reuse; and</content></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/4/B" id="H69C6AAF657AE40B9B3E1D09D46AF1F76" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>is based on an underlying open data standard that is maintained by a standards organization.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="definitions" identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9302/5" id="H1B01A9DC109243FF9ABDC9EE0596A484" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports online portal</inline>.—</heading><content>The term “<term>reports online portal</term>” means the online portal established under section (3)(a).</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303" id="HC415CC4A46B54B40A8E902DA7FEC00A4"><num value="9303">SEC. 9303. </num><heading>ESTABLISHMENT OF ONLINE PORTAL FOR CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORTS.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/a" id="H673EAE2303C445AFAA67F8DE957BB4F6" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Requirement To Establish Online Portal</inline>.—</heading>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/a/1" id="HE4BE4A82942A42FC8EE0114962941701" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In general</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director shall establish and maintain an online portal accessible by the public that allows the public to obtain electronic copies of all congressionally mandated reports in one place. The Director may publish other reports on the online portal.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/a/2" id="H62EA25A61004427BA4388F49983B7405" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Existing functionality</inline>.—</heading><content>To the extent possible, the Director shall meet the requirements under paragraph (1) by using existing online portals and functionality under the authority of the Director.</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/a/3" id="HC691EB318C494ED7A6B7F8ED426673D3" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Consultation</inline>.—</heading><content>In carrying out this subtitle, the Director shall consult with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Librarian of Congress regarding the requirements for and maintenance of congressionally mandated reports on the reports online portal.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b" id="HECD5EBE6D68F407686E3209ABA8C690D" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Content and Function</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The Director shall ensure that the reports online portal includes the following:</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1" id="H6DD15E046C714737B284194AE912FD72" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><chapeau>Subject to subsection (c), with respect to each congressionally mandated report, each of the following:</chapeau>
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||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/A" id="H97E6ED6CB4A84EDF9B304162E1BF56AD" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>A citation to the statute, conference report, or resolution requiring the report.</content></subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/B" id="H36E45D7506114E9EAFE5E96358F54A0A" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>An electronic copy of the report, including any transmittal letter associated with the report, in an open format that is platform independent and that is available to the public without restrictions, including restrictions that would impede the re-use of the information in the report.</content></subparagraph>
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||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C" id="H48D833A857C348228A49502CBFA5E41E" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><chapeau>The ability to retrieve a report, to the extent practicable, through searches based on each, and any combination, of the following:</chapeau>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/i" id="H805DA1BF13554A20BC419EB16E2DB85B" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>The title of the report.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/ii" id="H472D6EF2FC4A4D48B1B1E37195031D6F" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>The reporting Federal agency.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/iii" id="HF0A52035BA8F4E7389B283F3F0BBDA10" class="indent3"><num value="iii">(iii) </num><content>The date of publication.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/iv" id="H6F6BBCAE8B5D41D88699ECF29AAEEDCE" class="indent3"><num value="iv">(iv) </num><content>Each congressional committee receiving the report, if applicable.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/v" id="HF7E19FB61D9145F1826B442102585AE1" class="indent3"><num value="v">(v) </num><content>The statute, resolution, or conference report requiring the report.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/vi" id="H9070B3ED6FFD424F92586BEFC9B52F49" class="indent3"><num value="vi">(vi) </num><content>Subject tags.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/vii" id="H5F1475DDDF5647A38845C3EF21569F6A" class="indent3"><num value="vii">(vii) </num><content>A unique alphanumeric identifier for the report that is consistent across report editions.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/viii" id="H521D40E357FC43A0A853931F42D1059F" class="indent3"><num value="viii">(viii) </num><content>The serial number, Superintendent of Documents number, or other identification number for the report, if applicable.</content></clause>
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||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/ix" id="HEA3F8655498249BC8591CB7F7FC564C2" class="indent3"><num value="ix">(ix) </num><content>Key words.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/x" id="H6A6FE3401E074318B50AA770451EFD30" class="indent3"><num value="x">(x) </num><content>Full text search.</content></clause>
|
||
<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/C/xi" id="H54607DC716EF416A937C5C60BDDF2CB2" class="indent3"><num value="xi">(xi) </num><content>Any other relevant information specified by the Director.</content></clause></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/D" id="H4C4BE25228EF49C8B7875C54B285551C" class="indent2"><num value="D">(D) </num><content>The date on which the report was required to be submitted, and on which the report was submitted, to the reports online portal.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/E" id="H6C0575A1D27342CC9B12BD82260F6299" class="indent2"><num value="E">(E) </num><content>Access to the report not later than 30 calendar days after its submission to Congress.</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/1/F" id="H3097069EF6BB4B169909670EFCDD420C" class="indent2"><num value="F">(F) </num><content>To the extent practicable, a permanent means of accessing the report electronically.</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/2" id="H76410B4E50984473B1798A51140F5350" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>A means for bulk download of all congressionally mandated reports.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/3" id="HD1D1FB0B236A486BBDF782DC838B555C" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>A means for downloading individual reports as the result of a search.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/4" id="H8532546688784EC39674BA8E69470F5A" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>An electronic means for the head of each Federal agency to submit to the reports online portal each congressionally mandated report of the agency, as required by section 4.</content></paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/5" id="H9E2D1C23E855459CBB8CF987F478BEDA" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><chapeau>In tabular form, a list of all congressionally mandated reports that can be searched, sorted, and downloaded by—</chapeau>
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||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/5/A" id="H4A121D6D51524270B466939B765304CA" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><content>reports submitted within the required time;</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/5/B" id="H1FA87305D0D845CF83E4AE1C4CAD9DB3" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>reports submitted after the date on which such reports were required to be submitted; and</content></subparagraph>
|
||
<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/b/5/C" id="H923A48EED29942B7BA69259B6D121F50" class="indent2"><num value="C">(C) </num><content>reports not submitted.</content></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection>
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||
<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c" id="H629DDB9C0DE44DABAE573569A36D773F" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Noncompliance by Federal Agencies</inline>.—</heading>
|
||
<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/1" id="H3B8B92231AEC4A72803B948FCF0B5350" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports not submitted</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>If a Federal agency does not submit a congressionally mandated report to the Director, the Director shall to the extent practicable—</chapeau>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/1/A" id="HFCACB3A39D1D467B8A3BA2390EAAE225" class="indent2"><num value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>include on the reports online portal—</chapeau>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/1/A/i" id="H085F354BABE54BE88EC76183110D52C9" class="indent3"><num value="i">(i) </num><content>the information required under clauses (i), (ii), (iv), and (v) of subsection (b)(1)(C); and</content></clause>
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<clause identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/1/A/ii" id="H7189699B1A34428288B96EDD6CF76731" class="indent3"><num value="ii">(ii) </num><content>the date on which the report was required to be submitted; and</content></clause></subparagraph>
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<subparagraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/1/B" id="HA7EEDCE5E86843C5BB314E03C69522E1" class="indent2"><num value="B">(B) </num><content>include the congressionally mandated report on the list described in subsection (b)(5)(C).</content></subparagraph></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/c/2" id="H75BCAE0DE5844731B313D428E9FCCF55" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Reports not in open format</inline>.—</heading><content>If a Federal agency submits a congressionally mandated report that is not in an open format, the Director shall include the congressionally mandated report in another format on the reports online portal.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/d" id="H9FF6C6BFEAA74584941C18C4E989A56F" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Free Access</inline>.—</heading><content>The Director may not charge a fee, require registration, or impose any other limitation in exchange for access to the reports online portal.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9303/e" id="HB240CC63667643EFBEA43A022A8EB8D1" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Upgrade Capability</inline>.—</heading><content>The reports online portal shall be enhanced and updated as necessary to carry out the purposes of this subtitle.</content></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304" id="HE2698EB1860F4CF6951E973B5B4EDB89"><num value="9304">SEC. 9304. </num><heading>FEDERAL AGENCY RESPONSIBILITIES.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/a" id="H16915451FBDB4FA685DA9068AD382C2E" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Submission of Electronic Copies of Reports</inline>.—</heading><content>Concurrently with the submission to Congress of each congressionally mandated report, the head of the Federal agency submitting the congressionally mandated report shall submit to the Director the information required under subparagraphs (A) through (D) of section 3(b)(1) with respect to the congressionally mandated report. Nothing in this subtitle shall relieve a Federal agency of any other requirement to publish the congressionally mandated report on the online portal of the Federal agency or otherwise submit the congressionally mandated report to Congress or specific committees of Congress, or subcommittees thereof.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/b" id="H3CCBDB88FE994453AC6A9BD77FB69651" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Guidance</inline>.—</heading><content>Not later than 240 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Director, shall issue guidance to agencies on the implementation of this Act.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/c" id="H0F0AB78943AB4C298C7B9C4579C7189D" class="indent0"><num value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Structure of Submitted Report Data</inline>.—</heading><content>The head of each Federal agency shall ensure that each congressionally mandated report submitted to the Director complies with the open format criteria established by the Director in the guidance issued under subsection (b).</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/d" id="H1233C6A9EAA64345B8164C9A65E6FE12" class="indent0"><num value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Point of Contact</inline>.—</heading><content>The head of each Federal agency shall designate a point of contact for congressionally mandated report.</content></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e" id="H01D04E3673BB4620AF07BDAEEAA9E244" class="indent0"><num value="e">(e) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">List of Reports</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>As soon as practicable each calendar year (but not later than April 1), and on a rolling basis during the year if feasible, the Librarian of Congress shall submit to the Director a list of congressionally mandated reports from the previous calendar year, in consultation with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, which shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/1" id="H95F9855ABE8A4BF48C8A25DC5A14BCE0" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>be provided in an open format;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/2" id="HCAD21CE06FF94F4AB6064186CC44DA88" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>include the information required under clauses (i), (ii), (iv), (v) of section 3(b)(1)(C) for each report;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/3" id="H35C108684A3A47FDBE842D4D31649C0E" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>include the frequency of the report;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/4" id="H9D089D619D7E4C5983C6040363EE7FF2" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>include a unique alphanumeric identifier for the report that is consistent across report editions;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/5" id="HAD777C630AC94E0B964D7F8A8BD28867" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>include the date on which each report is required to be submitted; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9304/e/6" id="H0DAF9938879F4DD88BFA57612F4641CC" class="indent1"><num value="6">(6) </num><content>be updated and provided to the Director, as necessary.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9305" id="HCF2233BF720544CAB47EE7FD298401E8"><num value="9305">SEC. 9305. </num><heading>REMOVING AND ALTERING REPORTS.</heading>
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<chapeau class="indent0">A report submitted to be published to the reports online portal may only be changed or removed, with the exception of technical changes, by the head of the Federal agency concerned if—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9305/1" id="H195FB80FA6CF4B388B90BBF66AD9C72A" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>the head of the Federal agency consults with each congressional committee to which the report is submitted; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9305/2" id="HDC690259FDF944ABA104C3C89B3991A8" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>Congress enacts a joint resolution authorizing the changing or removal of the report.</content></paragraph></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306" id="H64A44A4DC9E54B3CAF596FDBE9205470"><num value="9306">SEC. 9306. </num><heading>RELATIONSHIP TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.</heading>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/a" id="H08B73955B6A5457FA61ED7FD36DEF7C3" class="indent0"><num value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">In General</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed to—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/a/1" id="H8B6EEEFFCF324F1BBF88BC6235D85657" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>require the disclosure of information or records that are exempt from public disclosure under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s552">section 552 of title 5, United States Code</ref>; or</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/a/2" id="H825097DBFB8146F180922BE157453B55" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>to impose any affirmative duty on the Director to review congressionally mandated reports submitted for publication to the reports online portal for the purpose of identifying and redacting such information or records.</content></paragraph></subsection>
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<subsection identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b" id="H3DD78C49653542A48C4018903F9DB9F5" class="indent0"><num value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Redaction of Information</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The head of a Federal agency may redact information required to be disclosed under this Act if the information would be properly withheld from disclosure under <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s552">section 552 of title 5, United States Code</ref>, and shall—</chapeau>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b/1" id="HD4A3A76FDD5D4875BCF8B6908404A06E" class="indent1"><num value="1">(1) </num><content>redact information required to be disclosed under this subtitle if disclosure of such information is prohibited by law;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b/2" id="H15FBFB0A13BD474EB81D17AAAB2A1866" class="indent1"><num value="2">(2) </num><content>redact information being withheld under this subsection prior to submitting the information to the Director;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b/3" id="H884060FE0F04429A887E949BE5890B08" class="indent1"><num value="3">(3) </num><content>redact only such information properly withheld under this subsection from the submission of information or from any congressionally mandated report submitted under this subtitle;</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b/4" id="H62689BE70CE040049FA0F8F959C2FA39" class="indent1"><num value="4">(4) </num><content>identify where any such redaction is made in the submission or report; and</content></paragraph>
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<paragraph identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9306/b/5" id="H6FAC2E16F8D84966817AA2A296D26371" class="indent1"><num value="5">(5) </num><content>identify the exemption under which each such redaction is made.</content></paragraph></subsection></section>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stD/s9307" id="H37E566FBD2B5475C936464AB842955A0"><num value="9307">SEC. 9307. </num><heading>IMPLEMENTATION.</heading><content class="block">Except as provided in section 9304(b), this subtitle shall be implemented not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act and shall apply with respect to congressionally mandated reports submitted to Congress on or after the date that is 1 year after such date of enactment.</content></section></subtitle>
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<subtitle identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stE" id="HD940DD1133A5475C9E0BAC19BB839B7A"><num value="E">Subtitle E—</num><heading>Severability</heading>
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<section identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tIX/stE/s9401" id="HD3F2A7FE30CC43218B719DC175F42AE6"><num value="9401">SEC. 9401. </num><heading>SEVERABILITY.</heading><content class="block">If any provision of this title or amendment made by this title, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this title and amendments made by this title, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.</content></section></subtitle></title>
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<title identifier="/us/bill/116/hr/1/dC/tX" id="HDA0651BE3431418F8165ED00972B5782"><num value="X">TITLE X—</num><heading class="inline">[RESERVED]</heading></title></division></main>
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<endorsement orientation="landscape"><relatedDocument role="calendar" href="/us/116/hcal/Union/5"> Union Calendar No. 5</relatedDocument><congress value="116">116th CONGRESS</congress><session value="1">1st Session</session><dc:type>H. R. </dc:type><docNumber>1</docNumber><relatedDocument role="report" href="/us/hrpt/116/15/pt1" value="CRPT-116hrpt15-pt1">[Report No. 116–15, Part I]</relatedDocument><longTitle><docTitle>A BILL</docTitle><officialTitle>To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, and strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and for other purposes.
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<p><br verticalSpace="nextPage"/></p></officialTitle></longTitle><action><date date="2019-03-04"><inline class="smallCaps">March </inline>4, 2019</date><actionDescription>Reported from the <committee addedDisplayStyle="italic" committeeId="HHA00" deletedDisplayStyle="strikethrough">Committee on House Administration</committee> with an amendment</actionDescription></action><action><date date="2019-03-04"><inline class="smallCaps">March </inline>4, 2019</date><actionDescription>Committees on <committee committeeId="HIG00">Intelligence (Permanent Select)</committee>, <committee committeeId="HJU00">the Judiciary</committee>, <committee committeeId="HGO00">Oversight and Reform</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSY00">Science, Space, and Technology</committee>, <committee committeeId="HED00">Education and Labor</committee>, <committee committeeId="HWM00">Ways and Means</committee>, <committee committeeId="HBA00">Financial Services</committee>, <committee committeeId="HSO00">Ethics</committee>, and <committee committeeId="HHM00">Homeland Security</committee> discharged; committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed</actionDescription></action></endorsement></bill> |