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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 624 

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide 

for same day registration. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 28, 2019 

Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself, Mr. BLUMENTHAL, Mr. BOOKER, Mr. BROWN, 

Mr. COONS, Ms. CORTEZ MASTO, Mr. DURBIN, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. KING, 

Mr. MARKEY, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms. SMITH, Mr. TESTER, 

Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and Mr. WYDEN) introduced the following bill; which 

was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration 

A BILL 

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 

States to provide for same day registration. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Same Day Registration 

5 Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SAME DAY REGISTRATION. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Help America 

8 Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended— 


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1 (1) by redesignating sections 304 and 305 as 

2 sections 305 and 306, respectively; and 

3 (2) by inserting after section 303 the following 

4 new section: 

5 ‘‘SEC. 304. SAME DAY REGISTRATION. 

6 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 

7 ‘‘(1) REGISTRATION.—Notwithstanding section 

8 8(a)(1)(D) of the National Voter Registration Act of 

9 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)(D)), each State shall 

10 permit any eligible individual on the day of a Fed11 eral election and on any day when voting, including 

12 early voting, is permitted for a Federal election— 

13 ‘‘(A) to register to vote in such election at 

14 the polling place using a form that meets the 

15 requirements under section 9(b) of the National 

16 Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 

17 20508(b)); and 

18 ‘‘(B) to cast a vote in such election. 

19 ‘‘(2) EXCEPTION.—The requirements under 

20 paragraph (1) shall not apply to a State in which, 

21 under a State law in effect continuously on and after 

22 the date of the enactment of this section, there is no 

23 voter registration requirement for individuals in the 

24 State with respect to elections for Federal office. 


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1 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this 

2 section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means, with respect 

3 to any election for Federal office, an individual who is oth4 erwise qualified to vote in that election. 

5 ‘‘(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Each State shall be re6 quired to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) 

7 for the regularly scheduled general election for Federal of8 fice occurring in November 2020 and for any subsequent 

9 election for Federal office.’’. 

10 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 

11 (1) Section 401 of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21111) 

12 is amended by striking ‘‘and 303’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘303, and 304’’. 

14 (2) The table of contents of such Act is amend15 ed— 

16 (A) by redesignating the items relating to 

17 sections 304 and 305 as relating to sections 

18 305 and 306, respectively; and 

19 (B) by inserting after the item relating to 

20 section 303 the following new item: 

‘‘Sec. 304. Same day registration.’’. 

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