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114TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2694 

To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require each 

State to ensure that each individual who provides identifying information 

to the State motor vehicle authority is automatically registered to vote 

in elections for Federal office held in the State unless the individual 

does not meet the eligibility requirements for registering to vote in 

such elections or declines to be registered to vote in such elections, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 9, 2015 

Mr. CICILLINE (for himself, Ms. HAHN, Mr. ISRAEL, Ms. WASSERMAN

SCHULTZ, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. TSONGAS, Mr. 

SWALWELL of California, Ms. KUSTER, Ms. CLARKE of New York, Mr. 

CONNOLLY, Mr. ELLISON, Ms. SEWELL of Alabama, Ms. DELAURO, Mr. 

PALLONE, Ms. MENG, Mrs. BUSTOS, Ms. FRANKEL of Florida, Ms. 

BROWNLEY of California, Mr. COURTNEY, Ms. LEE, Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. 

MCGOVERN, Ms. BASS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. 

LEWIS, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. TONKO, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. JEFFRIES, Mr. RANGEL, Ms. MOORE, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. MEEKS, Mr. GARAMENDI, Ms. WILSON of Florida, Mrs. WATSON COLEMAN, Mr. DEUTCH, Mr. COHEN, and Ms. BONAMICI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House 

Administration 

A BILL 

To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to 

require each State to ensure that each individual who 

provides identifying information to the State motor vehicle authority is automatically registered to vote in elections for Federal office held in the State unless the 


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individual does not meet the eligibility requirements for 

registering to vote in such elections or declines to be 

registered to vote in such elections, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Automatic Voter Reg5 istration Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION THROUGH 

7 STATE MOTOR VEHICLE AUTHORITIES. 

8 (a) AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION.—Section 5 

9 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 

10 20504) is amended to read as follows: 

11 ‘‘SEC. 5. AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION THROUGH 

12 MOTOR VEHICLE AUTHORITY. 

13 ‘‘(a) TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION TO ELECTION

14 OFFICIALS.— 

15 ‘‘(1) TRANSMISSION.—Each State’s motor vehi16 cle authority, upon receiving the identifying informa17 tion described in paragraph (2) with respect to any 

18 individual who requests services from the authority, 

19 shall transmit the identifying information to the ap20 propriate State election official. 


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1 ‘‘(2) IDENTIFYING INFORMATION DESCRIBED.— 

2 The identifying information described in this para3 graph with respect to any individual is as follows: 

4 ‘‘(A) The individual’s legal name. 

5 ‘‘(B) The individual’s age. 

6 ‘‘(C) The individual’s residence. 

7 ‘‘(D) The individual’s citizenship status. 

8 ‘‘(E) The individual’s electronic signature. 

9 ‘‘(3) RESTRICTION ON USE OF INFORMATION

10 ON CITIZENSHIP STATUS.—A State may not use any 

11 identifying information regarding an individual’s 

12 citizenship status which is transmitted under this 

13 subsection for any purpose other than determining 

14 whether the individual is eligible to vote in elections 

15 for Federal office. 

16 ‘‘(b) NOTIFICATION TO INDIVIDUALS.—Upon receiv17 ing the identifying information with respect to an indi18 vidual under subsection (a), the appropriate State election 

19 official shall issue a notification to the individual con20 taining— 

21 ‘‘(1) a statement that, unless the individual no22 tifies the election official prior to the expiration of 

23 the 21-calendar day period which begins on the date 

24 the official issued the notification that the individual 

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1 eral office held in the State, the individual shall be 

2 considered to have completed and submitted a voter 

3 registration application for purposes of this Act; and 

4 ‘‘(2) a description of the process by which the 

5 individual may decline to be registered to vote in 

6 elections for Federal office in the State. 

7 ‘‘(c) AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF ELIGIBLE INDI8 VIDUALS.—Upon the expiration of the 21-calendar day pe9 riod which begins on the date the appropriate State elec10 tion official issues a notification to an individual under 

11 subsection (b)(1), the official shall ensure that the indi12 vidual is registered to vote in elections for Federal office 

13 held in the State unless— 

14 ‘‘(1) the official determines that the individual 

15 does not meet the eligibility requirements for reg16 istering to vote in such elections; 

17 ‘‘(2) prior to the expiration of such 21-calendar 

18 day period, the individual notifies the official that 

19 the individual declines to be registered to vote in 

20 such elections; or 

21 ‘‘(3) the individual is already registered to vote 

22 in such elections.’’. 

23 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO TIM24 ING OF REGISTRATION PRIOR TO ELECTIONS.—Section 


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1 8(a)(1)(A) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)(A)) is 

2 amended to read as follows: 

3 ‘‘(A) in the case of registration through a 

4 motor vehicle authority under section 5, if the 

5 identifying information with respect to the indi6 vidual is transmitted by the authority to the ap7 propriate State election official under section 

8 5(a)(1) not later than the lesser of 30 days, or 

9 the period provided by State law, before the 

10 date of the election;’’. 

11 (c) OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 

12 4(a)(1) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 20503(a)(1)) is amended 

13 to read as follows: 

14 ‘‘(1) through the State motor vehicle authority 

15 pursuant to section 5;’’. 

16 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

17 (a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

18 this Act shall take effect upon the expiration of the 180- 

19 day period which begins on the date of the enactment of 

20 this Act. 

21 (b) TIMING OF AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION OF INDI22 VIDUALS PROVIDING IDENTIFYING INFORMATION TO

23 MOTOR VEHICLE AUTHORITY PRIOR TO EFFECTIVE

24 DATE.—For purposes of section 5 of the National Voter 

25 Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20504), as amended 


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1 by section 2(a), if an individual provided identifying infor2 mation (as described in section 5(a)(2) of such Act) to 

3 a State motor vehicle authority prior to the effective date 

4 described in subsection (a), the authority shall transmit 

5 such information to the appropriate State election official 

6 pursuant to section 5(a)(1) of such Act not later than such 

7 effective date, unless the motor vehicle authority deter8 mines that the information is no longer valid with respect 

9 to the individual. 

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