I 
116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5510 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize distribu-
tion 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 pur-
poses. 
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 acces-
sibility protection and advocacy system of the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the system 
serving the American Indian consortium, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Protection and Advo-
cacy for Voting Access Program Inclusion Act’’ or the 
‘‘PAVA Program Inclusion Act’’. 
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING PAYMENTS TO VOTING ACCESSI-
BILITY PROTECTION AND ADVOCACY SYS-
TEMS SERVING THE COMMONWEALTH OF 
THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS AND THE 
AMERICAN INDIAN CONSORTIUM. 
(a) RECIPIENTS DEFINED.—Section 291 of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21061) is amend-
ed— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-
section (d); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE GRANT RECIPIENTS.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITION OF STATE.—For the purposes 
of this section, the term ‘State’ shall have the mean-
ing given such term in section 102 of the Develop-
mental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act 
of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002). 
‘‘(2) AMERICAN
INDIAN
CONSORTIUM
ELIGI-
BLE.—A system serving the American Indian con-
sortium for which funds have been reserved under 
section 509(c)(1)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 
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1973 (29 U.S.C. 794e(c)(1)(B)) shall be eligible for 
payments under subsection (a) in the same manner 
as a protection and advocacy system of a State.’’. 
(b) GRANT MINIMUMS FOR AMERICAN INDIAN CON-
SORTIUM.—Section 291(b) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 
21061(b)) is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘(c)(1)(B),’’ after ‘‘as set forth 
in subsections’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘subsections (c)(3)(B) and 
(c)(4)(B) of that section shall be not less than 
$70,000 and $35,000, respectively.’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘subsection (c)(3)(B) shall not be less 
than $70,000, and the amount of the grants to sys-
tems referred to in subsections (c)(1)(B) and (c)(4) 
shall not be less than $35,000.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect 
at the start of the first fiscal year starting after the date 
of the enactment of this Act. 
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