I 
119TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7219 
To require the congressional districts established by a State to meet certain 
requirements, to prohibit States from carrying out more than one con-
gressional redistricting after a decennial census and apportionment, to 
exclude aliens without lawful status under the immigration laws from 
number of persons used to determine apportionment of representatives 
and number of electoral votes, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 22, 2026 
Mr. LAWLER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight 
and Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To require the congressional districts established by a State 
to meet certain requirements, to prohibit States from 
carrying out more than one congressional redistricting 
after a decennial census and apportionment, to exclude 
aliens without lawful status under the immigration laws 
from number of persons used to determine apportion-
ment of representatives and number of electoral votes, 
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 ‘‘Fair Apportionment 
and Independent Redistricting for Maps that Avoid Par-
tisanship Act’’ or the ‘‘FAIR MAP Act’’. 
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The congressional districts of 
a State shall meet each of the following requirements: 
(1) Each congressional district in the State 
shall consist of contiguous territory (except to the 
extent necessary to include any area which is sur-
rounded by a body of water). 
(2) Each congressional district in the State 
shall be as compact in form as practicable. 
(3) No congressional district in the State shall 
be drawn to discourage competition, or for the pur-
pose of favoring or disfavoring an incumbent, a par-
ticular candidate, or a particular political party. In 
establishing congressional districts, the State shall 
consider the maintenance of cores of existing dis-
tricts, of pre-existing political subdivisions, including 
counties, cities, and towns, and of communities of 
interest. 
(4) To the extent practicable, the population of 
each congressional district in the State shall not 
vary from the population of any other congressional 
district in the State (as determined on the basis of 
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the total count of citizens of the United States and 
aliens with lawful status under the immigration laws 
(as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)) of the 
most recent decennial census conducted by the Bu-
reau of the Census). 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply 
with respect to congressional districts established on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. LIMIT ON CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING AFTER 
AN APPORTIONMENT. 
The Act entitled ‘‘An Act for the relief of Doctor Ri-
cardo Vallejo Samala and to provide for congressional re-
districting’’, approved December 14, 1967 (2 U.S.C. 2c), 
is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘A State 
which has been redistricted in the manner provided by law 
after an apportionment under section 22(a) of the Act en-
titled ‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subsequent 
decennial censuses and to provide for an apportionment 
of Representatives in Congress’, approved June 18, 1929 
(2 U.S.C. 2a), may not be redistricted again until after 
the next apportionment of Representatives under such sec-
tion, unless a court requires the State to conduct such 
subsequent redistricting to comply with the Constitution, 
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to enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973 
et seq.), or to comply with the FAIR MAP Act.’’. 
SEC. 4. EXCLUSION OF ALIENS WITHOUT LAWFUL STATUS 
UNDER THE IMMIGRATION LAWS FROM NUM-
BER OF PERSONS USED TO DETERMINE AP-
PORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES AND 
NUMBER OF ELECTORAL VOTES. 
(a) IMMIGRATION STATUS
ON DECENNIAL CEN-
SUS.—Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (h); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) In conducting the 2030 decennial census and 
each decennial census thereafter, the Secretary shall in-
clude in any questionnaire distributed or otherwise used 
for the purpose of determining the total population by 
States a checkbox or other similar option for the respond-
ent to indicate, for the respondent and for each of the 
members of the household of the respondent, whether that 
individual is a citizen of the United States or an alien with 
lawful status under the immigration laws (as such term 
is defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)).’’. 
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(b) EXCLUSION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 22(a) of the Act en-
titled ‘‘An Act to provide for the fifteenth and subse-
quent decennial censuses and to provide for appor-
tionment of Representatives in Congress’’, approved 
June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by in-
serting after ‘‘not taxed’’ the following: ‘‘and aliens 
without lawful status under the immigration laws 
(as such term is defined in section 101 of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101))’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the ap-
portionment of Representatives carried out pursuant 
to the decennial census conducted during 2030 and 
any succeeding decennial census. 
SEC. 5. CONGRESSIONAL REDISTRICTING CHALLENGES. 
(a) JURISDICTION OF FEDERAL COURTS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, any challenge to the 
congressional districts established by a State shall be 
brought in a district court of the United States. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Subsection (a) shall apply 
with respect to congressional districts established on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 6. PROHIBITING STATES FROM USING RANKED 
CHOICE VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Subtitle A of title III of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) 
is amended— 
(1) by redesignating sections 305 and 306 as 
sections 306 and 307, respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after section 304 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 305. PROHIBITING STATES FROM THE USE OF 
RANKED CHOICE VOTING WITH RESPECT TO 
AN ELECTION FOR FEDERAL OFFICE. 
‘‘A State may not carry out an election for Federal 
office in the State using a system of ranked choice voting 
under which each voter shall rank the candidates for the 
office in the order of the voter’s preference.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT RELATING TO EN-
FORCEMENT.—Section 401 of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21111) is amended by striking ‘‘303, 
and 304’’ and inserting ‘‘303, 304, and 305’’. 
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended— 
(1) by redesignating the items relating to sec-
tions 305 and 306 as relating to sections 306 and 
307, respectively; and 
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(2) by inserting after the item relating to sec-
tion 304 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 305. Prohibiting States from the use of ranked choice voting with respect 
to an election for Federal office.’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to elections held on 
or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 
7. 
PHOTO 
IDENTIFICATION 
OR 
SIGNATURE 
VERIFICATION REQUIRED. 
(a) INDIVIDUALS VOTING
IN PERSON.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, no State or local elec-
tion official may provide a ballot for an election for Fed-
eral office to an individual voting in person unless the indi-
vidual presents to the official a valid photo identification 
card issued by a Federal, State, or Tribal government that 
identifies the individual. 
(b) INDIVIDUALS VOTING OTHER THAN
IN PER-
SON.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, no State or local election official 
may accept a ballot for an election for Federal office 
provided by an individual voting other than in per-
son unless— 
(A) the individual submits with the ballot 
a card or envelope signed by the individual; and 
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(B) such signature matches the signature 
associated with the individual in the computer-
ized statewide voter registration list described 
in section 303(a) of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21083(a)). 
(2) EFFECTIVE
DATE.—This subsection shall 
apply with respect to elections for Federal office held 
after the election for Federal office held on Novem-
ber 3, 2026. 
SEC. 8. SAME-DAY REGISTRATION PROHIBITED. 
A State may not permit an individual to vote in an 
election for Federal office unless the individual is duly reg-
istered to vote prior to the date of such election. 
SEC. 9. NO EFFECT ON ELECTIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL 
OFFICE. 
Nothing in this Act or in any amendment made by 
this Act may be construed to affect the manner in which 
a State carries out elections for State or local office, in-
cluding the process by which a State establishes the dis-
tricts used in such elections. 
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