109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4844
AN ACT 
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require 
each individual who desires to vote in an election for 
Federal office to provide the appropriate election official 
with a government-issued photo identification, 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 ‘‘Federal Election Integ-
rity Act of 2006’’ . 
SEC. 2. REQUIRING VOTERS TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDENTI-
FICATION. 
(a) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDENTIFICA-
TION AS CONDITION OF RECEIVING BALLOT.—Section 
303(b) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 
15483(b)) is amended—
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘FOR VOTERS 
WHO REGISTER BY MAIL’’ and inserting ‘‘FOR PRO-
VIDING PHOTO IDENTIFICATION’’; and 
(2) by striking paragraphs (1) through (3) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) INDIVIDUALS VOTING IN PERSON.—
‘‘(A) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE IDENTI-
FICATION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law and except as provided in subpara-
graph (B), the appropriate State or local elec-
tion official may not provide a ballot for an 
election for Federal office to an individual who 
desires to vote in person unless the individual 
presents to the official—
‘‘(i) a government-issued, current, and 
valid photo identification; or
‘‘(ii) in the case of the regularly 
scheduled general election for Federal of-
fice held in November 2010 and each sub-
sequent election for Federal office, a gov-
ernment-issued, current, and valid photo 
identification for which the individual was 
required to provide proof of United States 
citizenship as a condition for the issuance 
of the identification. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF PROVISIONAL BAL-
LOT.—If an individual does not present the 
identification required under subparagraph (A), 
the individual shall be permitted to cast a provi-
sional ballot with respect to the election under 
section 302(a), except that the appropriate 
State or local election official may not make a 
determination under section 302(a)(4) that the 
individual is eligible under State law to vote in 
the election unless the individual presents the 
identification required under subparagraph (A) 
to the official not later than 48 hours after 
casting the provisional ballot. 
‘‘(2) INDIVIDUALS
VOTING
OTHER
THAN
IN 
PERSON.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law and except as provided in 
subparagraph (B), the appropriate State or 
local election official may not accept any ballot 
for an election for Federal office provided by an 
individual who votes other than in person unless 
the individual submits with the ballot—
‘‘(i) a copy of a government-issued, 
current, and valid photo identification; or 
‘‘(ii) in the case of the regularly 
scheduled general election for Federal of-
fice held in November 2010 and each sub-
sequent election for Federal office, a copy 
of a government-issued, current, and valid 
photo identification for which the indi-
vidual was required to provide proof of 
United States citizenship as a condition for 
the issuance of the identification. 
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION FOR OVERSEAS MILITARY 
VOTERS.—Subparagraph (A) does not apply 
with respect to a ballot provided by an absent 
uniformed services voter who, by reason of ac-
tive duty or service, is absent from the United 
States on the date of the election involved. In 
this subparagraph, the term ‘absent uniformed
services voter’ has the meaning given such term 
in section 107(1) of the Uniformed and Over-
seas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (42 U.S.C. 
1973ff—6(1)), other than an individual de-
scribed in section 107(1)(C) of such Act. 
‘‘(3) SPECIFIC
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
IDENTI-
FICATIONS.—For purposes of paragraphs (1) and 
(2)—
‘‘(A) an identification is ‘government-
issued’ if it is issued by the Federal Govern-
ment or by the government of a State; and 
‘‘(B) an identification is one for which an 
individual was required to provide proof of 
United States citizenship as a condition for 
issuance if the identification displays an official 
marking or other indication that the individual 
is a United States citizen.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 303 of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 15483) is amended—
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘FOR VOTERS 
WHO REGISTER BY MAIL’’ and inserting ‘‘FOR 
PROVIDING PHOTO IDENTIFICATION’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘subsections 
(a)(5)(A)(i)(II) and (b)(3)(B)(i)(II)’’ and inserting 
‘‘subsection (a)(5)(A)(i)(II)’’.
(c) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
of such Act is amended by amending the item relating to 
section 303 to read as follows:
‘‘Sec. 303. Computerized statewide voter registration list requirements and re-
quirements for providing photo identification.’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—This section and the amend-
ments made by this section shall apply with respect 
to the regularly scheduled general election for Fed-
eral office held in November 2008 and each subse-
quent election for Federal office. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
303(d)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 15483(d)(2)) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE PHOTO IDEN-
TIFICATION.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection 
(b) shall apply with respect to the regularly sched-
uled general election for Federal office held in No-
vember 2008 and each subsequent election for Fed-
eral office.’’. 
SEC. 3. MAKING PHOTO IDENTIFICATIONS AVAILABLE. 
(a) REQUIRING STATES TO MAKE IDENTIFICATION 
AVAILABLE.—Section 303(b) of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15483(b)), as amended by section 
2(a)(2), is amended—