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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5510 

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and advocacy 

system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and 

the system serving the American Indian consortium, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

DECEMBER 19, 2019 

Mr. GALLEGO (for himself, Mr. O’HALLERAN, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. LUJA ́N, Mr. 

TIPTON, Ms. HAALAND, and Mr. STANTON) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on House Administration 

A BILL 

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly 

authorize distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and advocacy system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the system 

serving the American Indian consortium, and for other 

purposes. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protection and Advo3 cacy for Voting Access Program Inclusion Act’’ or the 

4 ‘‘PAVA Program Inclusion Act’’. 

5 SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING PAYMENTS TO VOTING ACCESSI6 BILITY PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SYS7 TEMS SERVING THE COMMONWEALTH OF 

8 THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS AND THE 

9 AMERICAN INDIAN CONSORTIUM. 

10 (a) RECIPIENTS DEFINED.—Section 291 of the Help 

11 America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21061) is amend12 ed— 

13 (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub14 section (d); and 

15 (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol16 lowing new subsection: 

17 ‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE GRANT RECIPIENTS.— 

18 ‘‘(1) DEFINITION OF STATE.—For the purposes 

19 of this section, the term ‘State’ shall have the mean20 ing given such term in section 102 of the Develop21 mental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act 

22 of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002). 

23 ‘‘(2) AMERICAN INDIAN CONSORTIUM ELIGI24 BLE.—A system serving the American Indian con25 sortium for which funds have been reserved under 

26 section 509(c)(1)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 


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1 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794e(c)(1)(B)) shall be eligible for 

2 payments under subsection (a) in the same manner 

3 as a protection and advocacy system of a State.’’. 

4 (b) GRANT MINIMUMS FOR AMERICAN INDIAN CON5 SORTIUM.—Section 291(b) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 

6 21061(b)) is amended— 

7 (1) by inserting ‘‘(c)(1)(B),’’ after ‘‘as set forth 

8 in subsections’’; and 

9 (2) by striking ‘‘subsections (c)(3)(B) and 

10 (c)(4)(B) of that section shall be not less than 

11 $70,000 and $35,000, respectively.’’ and inserting 

12 the following: ‘‘subsection (c)(3)(B) shall not be less 

13 than $70,000, and the amount of the grants to sys14 tems referred to in subsections (c)(1)(B) and (c)(4) 

15 shall not be less than $35,000.’’. 

16 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

17 The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 

18 at the start of the first fiscal year starting after the date 

19 of the enactment of this Act. 

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