website the standards established under this section, and 
shall make those standards available in written form upon 
public request. 
(d) PROTECTION OF SOURCE INFORMATION.—The 
identity of the specific source agency through which an 
individual consented to register to vote under section 201 
shall not be disclosed to the public and shall not be re-
tained after the individual is added to the computerized 
statewide voter registration list. 
(e) CONFIDENTIALITY
OF
PERSONAL
INFORMA-
TION.—The chief State election official of a State shall 
establish policies and enforcement procedures to ensure 
that personal information provided by source agencies or 
otherwise transmitted under this section is kept confiden-
tial and is available only to authorized users. For purposes 
of these policies and procedures, the term ‘‘personal infor-
mation’’ means, with respect to an individual any of the 
following: 
(1) Any portion of a Social Security number. 
(2) Any portion of a vehicle driver’s license 
number or State identification card number. 
(3) A signature. 
(4) A personal residence and contact informa-
tion (in the case of an individuals with respect to 
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whom such information is required to be maintained 
as confidential under State law). 
(5) Sensitive information relating to any indi-
vidual in a category designated as confidential by 
Federal or State law, including a victim of domestic 
violence or stalking, a prosecutor and member of law 
enforcement personnel, and a participant in a wit-
ness protection program. 
(6) A phone number. 
(7) An email address. 
(8) Citizenship status. 
(9) Such other information as the chief State 
election official may designate as confidential to the 
extent reasonably necessary to prevent identity theft 
or impersonation, except that the chief State election 
official may not designate as confidential under this 
subparagraph the name, address, or date of registra-
tion of an individual, or, where applicable, the self- 
identified racial or ethnic category of the individual 
as applicable under Revisions to OMB Directive 
Number 15 or successor directives. 
(f) PROTECTIONS AGAINST LIABILITY OF INDIVID-
UALS ON BASIS OF INFORMATION TRANSFERRED.— 
(1) NO INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY FOR REGISTRA-
TION OF INELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL.—If an individual 
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who is not eligible to register to vote in elections for 
Federal office is registered to vote in such elections 
by a chief State election official under section 201, 
the individual shall not be subject to any penalty, in-
cluding the imposition of a fine or term of imprison-
ment, adverse treatment in any immigration or nat-
uralization proceeding, or the denial of any status 
under immigration laws, under any law prohibiting 
an individual who is not eligible to register to vote 
in elections for Federal office from registering to 
vote in such elections. Nothing in this paragraph 
shall be construed to waive the liability of any indi-
vidual who knowingly provides false information to 
any person regarding the individual’s eligibility to 
register to vote or vote in elections for Federal of-
fice. 
(2) PROHIBITING USE OF INFORMATION BY OF-
FICIALS.—No person acting under color of law may 
use the information received by the chief State elec-
tion official under section 201 to attempt to deter-
mine the citizenship status of any individual for im-
migration enforcement, criminal law enforcement 
(other than enforcement of election laws), or any 
purpose other than voter registration, election ad-
ministration, or the enforcement of election laws. 
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(g) PROHIBITION ON TRANSFER OF INFORMATION 
IRRELEVANT TO ADMINISTRATION OF ELECTIONS.—No 
source agency shall transmit any information under sec-
tion 201 which is irrelevant to the administration of elec-
tions. To the extent that an election official receives any 
information which is accidentally or inadvertently trans-
ferred by a source agency under such section, the official 
shall immediately delete the information from the official’s 
records. 
(h) RESTRICTION ON USE OF INFORMATION.—No in-
formation relating to an individual’s absence from the 
statewide voter registration list under section 303 of the 
Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15483) or an 
individual’s declination to supply information for voter 
registration purposes to a source agency under section 201 
may be disclosed to the public for immigration enforce-
ment, criminal law enforcement other than enforcement 
of laws against election crimes, or used for any purpose 
other than voter registration, election administration, or 
the enforcement of election laws. 
(i) NONDISCRIMINATION.—No person acting under 
color of law may discriminate against any individual on 
the basis of the individual’s absence from the statewide 
voter registration list, the information supplied by the in-
dividual for voter registration purpose to a source agency 
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under section 201, or the individual’s declination to supply 
such information, except as required for purposes of voter 
registration, election administration, and the enforcement 
of election laws. 
(j) PROHIBITION ON THE USE OF VOTER REGISTRA-
TION INFORMATION FOR COMMERCIAL OR NON-GOVERN-
MENTAL PURPOSES.—Voter registration information col-
lected under this title shall not be used for commercial 
purposes including for comparison with any existing com-
mercial list or database. 
(k) PENALTY.—Whoever knowingly uses information 
or permits information to be used in violation of this sec-
tion shall be imprisoned for not more than 1 year, fined 
under title 18, United States Code, or both. 
(l) EXCLUSION FROM LISTS OF INDIVIDUALS DE-
CLINING REGISTRATION.—The chief State election official 
of a State shall ensure that, with respect to any individual 
who declines the opportunity to register to vote under sec-
tion 201, the individual’s information is not included on 
the computerized Statewide voter registration list under 
section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (42 
U.S.C. 15483) and is not provided to any third party (ex-
cept to the extent required under another Federal or State 
law). Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to pre-
clude an individual who has previously declined the oppor-
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