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104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4209
To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require each
individual registering to vote in elections for Federal office to provide
the individual’s Social Security number and to permit a State to remove
a registrant who fails to vote in two consecutive general elections for
Federal office from the official list of eligible voters in elections for
Federal office on the ground that the registrant has changed residence,
if the registrant fails to respond to written notices requesting confirma-
tion of the registrant’s residence.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 26, 1996
Mr. MCCOLLUM introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on House Oversight
A BILL
To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to
require each individual registering to vote in elections
for Federal office to provide the individual’s Social Secu-
rity number and to permit a State to remove a registrant
who fails to vote in two consecutive general elections
for Federal office from the official list of eligible voters
in elections for Federal office on the ground that the
registrant has changed residence, if the registrant fails
to respond to written notices requesting confirmation
of the registrant’s residence.
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 ‘‘Integrity in Voter Reg-
istration Act of 1996’’.
SEC. 2. REQUIRING APPLICANTS REGISTERING TO VOTE TO
PROVIDE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
(a) REGISTRATION WITH APPLICATION FOR DRIV-
ER’S LICENSE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 5(c)(2) of the Na-
tional Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C.
1973gg–3(c)(2)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (D);
(B) by striking the period at the end of
subparagraph (E) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
subparagraph:
‘‘(F) shall require the applicant to provide the
applicant’s Social Security number.’’.
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section
5(c)(2)(A) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1973gg–
3(c)(2)(A)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘subpara-
graph (C)’’ the following: ‘‘, or the information de-
scribed in subparagraph (F)’’.
(b) MAIL REGISTRATION.—Section 9(b)(1) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 1973gg–7(b)(1)) is amended by striking
‘‘may require only such identifying information’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘shall require the applicant to pro-
vide the applicant’s Social Security number, and may re-
quire only such additional identifying information’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect January 1, 1997, and shall
apply with respect to applicants registering to vote in elec-
tions for Federal office on or after such date.
SEC. 3. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN REGISTRANTS FROM OFFI-
CIAL LIST OF ELIGIBLE VOTERS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8(d) of the National Voter
Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg–6(d)) is
amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(3)(A) At the option of the State, a State may re-
move the name of a registrant from the official list of eligi-
ble voters in elections for Federal office on the ground that
the registrant has changed residence if—
‘‘(i) the registrant has not voted or appeared to
vote (and, if necessary, correct the registrar’s record
of the registrant’s address) in an election during the
period beginning on the day after the date of the
second previous general election for Federal office
held prior to the date the confirmation notice de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) is sent and ending on
the date of such notice;
‘‘(ii) the registrant has not voted or appeared to
vote (and, if necessary, correct the registrar’s record
of the registrant’s address) in any of the first two
general elections for Federal office held after the
confirmation notice described in subparagraph (B) is
sent; and
‘‘(iii) during the period beginning on the date
the confirmation notice described in subparagraph
(B) is sent and ending on the date of the second
general election for Federal office held after the date
such notice is sent, the registrant has failed to notify
the State in response to the notice that the reg-
istrant did not change his or her residence, or
changed residence but remained in the registrar’s ju-
risdiction.
‘‘(B) A confirmation notice described in this subpara-
graph is a postage prepaid and pre-addressed return card,
sent by forwardable mail, on which a registrant may state
his or her current address, together with information con-
cerning how the registrant can continue to be eligible to
vote if the registrant has changed residence to a place out-
side the registrar’s jurisdiction and a statement that the
registrant may be removed from the official list of eligible
voters if the registrant does not respond to the notice (dur-
ing the period described in subparagraph (A)(iii)) by stat-
ing that the registrant did not change his or her residence,
or changed residence but remained in the registrar’s juris-
diction.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 8(i)(2) of
such Act (42 U.S.C. 1973gg–6(d)) is amended by insert-
ing ‘‘or subsection (d)(3)’’ after ‘‘subsection (d)(2)’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect January 1, 1997, and shall
apply with respect to general elections for Federal office
held on or after January 1, 1996.
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