I 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 641 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to meet 
notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes, 
and for other purposes. 
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 amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 
States to meet notification requirements for voters af-
fected by polling place changes, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Polling Change Aware-
ness Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VOT-
ERS 
AFFECTED 
BY 
POLLING 
PLACE 
CHANGES. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 302 of the Help Amer-
ica Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21082) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(d) MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR 
VOTERS AFFECTED BY POLLING PLACE CHANGES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If a State assigns an indi-
vidual who is a registered voter in a State to a poll-
ing place with respect to an election for Federal of-
fice 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— 
‘‘(A) 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 the 
first day of an early voting period (whichever 
occurs first); or 
‘‘(B) if the State makes such an assign-
ment fewer than 7 days before the date of the 
election and the individual appears on the date 
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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. 
‘‘(2) METHODS OF NOTIFICATION.—The State 
shall notify an individual under subparagraph (A) of 
paragraph (1) by mail, telephone, and (if available) 
text message and electronic mail. 
‘‘(3) PLACEMENT OF SIGNS AT CLOSED POLL-
ING PLACES.—If a location which served as a polling 
place in an election for Federal office does not serve 
as a polling place in the next election for Federal of-
fice held in the jurisdiction involved, the State shall 
ensure that signs are posted at such location on the 
date of the election and during any early voting pe-
riod for the election containing the following infor-
mation: 
‘‘(A) A statement that the location is not 
serving as a polling place in the election. 
‘‘(B) The locations serving as polling 
places in the election in the jurisdiction in-
volved. 
‘‘(C) Contact information, including a tele-
phone number and website, for the appropriate 
State or local election official through which an 
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individual may find the polling place to which 
the individual is assigned for the election. 
‘‘(4) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection shall 
apply with respect to elections held on or after Janu-
ary 1, 2022.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 302(e) of 
such Act (52 U.S.C. 21082(e)), as redesignated by sub-
section (a), is amended by striking ‘‘Each State’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Except as provided in subsection (d)(4), each 
State’’. 
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