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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 639 

To require States to submit annual reports on voter registration to the 

Election Assistance Commission. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 1, 2021 

Mr. BROWN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on House Administration 

A BILL 

To require States to submit annual reports on voter 

registration to the Election Assistance Commission. 

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 ‘‘Voter Registration Re5 porting Act of 2021’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON VOTER REGISTRATION STA7 TISTICS. 

8 (a) ANNUAL REPORT.—Not later than 90 days after 

9 the end of each year, each State shall submit to the Elec10 tion Assistance Commission and Congress a report conVerDate Sep 11 2014 03:32 Mar 02, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H639.IH H639

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1 taining the following categories of information for the 

2 year: 

3 (1) The number of individuals who were reg4 istered by automatic registration. 

5 (2) The number of voter registration applica6 tion forms completed by individuals that were trans7 mitted by motor vehicle authorities in the State 

8 (pursuant to section 5(d) of the National Voter Reg9 istration Act of 1993) and voter registration agen10 cies in the State (as designated under section 7 of 

11 such Act) to the chief State election official of the 

12 State, broken down by each such authority and 

13 agency. 

14 (3) The number of such individuals whose voter 

15 registration application forms were accepted and 

16 who were registered to vote in the State and the 

17 number of such individuals whose forms were re18 jected and who were not registered to vote in the 

19 State, broken down by each such authority and 

20 agency. 

21 (4) The number of change of address forms and 

22 other forms of information indicating that an indi23 vidual’s identifying information has been changed 

24 that were transmitted by such motor vehicle authori25 ties and voter registration agencies to the chief State 


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1 election official of the State, broken down by each 

2 such authority and agency and the type of form 

3 transmitted. 

4 (5) The number of individuals on the statewide 

5 computerized voter registration list (as established 

6 and maintained under section 303 of the Help 

7 America Vote Act of 2002) whose voter registration 

8 information was revised by the chief State election 

9 official as a result of the forms transmitted to the 

10 official by such motor vehicle authorities and voter 

11 registration agencies (as described in paragraph 

12 (3)), broken down by each such authority and agen13 cy and the type of form transmitted. 

14 (6) The number of individuals who requested 

15 the chief State election official to revise voter reg16 istration information on such list, and the number of 

17 individuals whose information was revised as a result 

18 of such a request. 

19 (b) BREAKDOWN OF INFORMATION.—In preparing 

20 the report under this section, the State shall, for each cat21 egory of information described in subsection (a), include 

22 a breakdown by race, ethnicity, age, and gender of the 

23 individuals whose information is included in the category, 

24 to the extent that information on the race, ethnicity, age, 

25 and gender of such individuals is available to the State. 


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1 (c) CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.—In pre2 paring and submitting a report under this section, the 

3 chief State election official shall ensure that no informa4 tion regarding the identification of any individual is re5 vealed. 

6 (d) DEFINITIONS.— 

7 (1) AUTOMATIC VOTER REGISTRATION.—In this 

8 section, the term ‘‘automatic registration’’ means a 

9 system that registers an individual to vote in elec10 tions for Federal office in a State, if eligible, by elec11 tronically transferring the information necessary for 

12 registration from government agencies to election of13 ficials of the State so that, unless the individual af14 firmatively declines to be registered, the individual 

15 will be registered to vote in such elections. 

16 (2) STATE.—In this section, the term ‘‘State’’ 

17 includes the District of Columbia, the Common18 wealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Is19 lands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Common20 wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but does 

21 not include any State in which, under a State law 

22 in effect continuously on and after the date of the 

23 enactment of this Act, there is no voter registration 


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1 requirement for individuals in the State with respect 

2 to elections for Federal office. 

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