section (b) shall provide written translations of all 
voting materials, with the consent of any applicable 
Tribal government, to election workers to ensure that 
the translations from English to the language of a mi-
nority group are complete, accurate, and uniform. 
‘‘(4) TRIBAL
GOVERNMENT
DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘Tribal government’ means the 
recognized governing body of any Indian or Alaska 
Native Tribe, band, nation, pueblo, village, commu-
nity, component band, or component reservation, in-
dividually identified (including parenthetically) in 
the list published most recently as of the date of en-
actment of the Expanding the VOTE Act pursuant to 
section 104 of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe 
List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5131).’’. 
SEC. 4. GRANTS TO JURISDICTIONS TO INCENTIVIZE THE 
PROVISION OF VOTING MATERIALS IN LAN-
GUAGES NOT TRIGGERING SECTION 203 COV-
ERAGE IN APPLYING JURISDICTION. 
(a) AVAILABILITY OF GRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Election Assistance Com-
mission (in this section, referred to as the ‘‘Commis-
sion’’) shall make incentive grants under subsection 
(b) to States and political subdivisions to assist the 
States and political subdivisions in providing voting 
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materials during an election cycle in the language of 
a covered language minority group. 
(2) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—In order to receive 
a grant under this section, a State or political sub-
division shall submit to the Commission, at such time 
and in such form as the Commission may require, an 
application containing such information and assur-
ances as the Commission may require, such as a plan 
for the State or political subdivision to engage stake-
holders with a demonstrated experience of serving the 
relevant covered language minority group. 
(b) INCENTIVE GRANTS.— 
(1) USE
OF
FUNDS.—The Commission shall 
make an incentive grant under this subsection to a 
State or political subdivision to cover the reasonable 
costs incurred by the State or political subdivision in 
providing voting materials in the language of a cov-
ered language minority group for an election cycle. 
(2) CONTINUATION OF PROVISION OF MATERIALS 
FOR GROUPS IN SUCCEEDING ELECTION CYCLES.—If a 
State or political subdivision receives an incentive 
grant with respect to a covered language minority 
group for an election cycle, the State or political sub-
division will certify to the Commission that the State 
or political subdivision will continue to provide vot-
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ing materials in the language of that covered lan-
guage minority group for each succeeding election 
cycle unless the population of the group during the 
succeeding cycle has dropped by 0.5 percent or more 
from the population of the group during the first elec-
tion cycle for which the State or political subdivision 
received an incentive grant with respect to the group. 
(3) PROHIBITING MULTIPLE GRANTS FOR SAME 
LANGUAGE MINORITY GROUP.—If a State or political 
subdivision receives an incentive grant with respect to 
a covered language minority group, the State or sub-
division may not receive another incentive grant with 
respect to that same covered language minority group. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) 
the 
term 
‘‘covered 
language 
minority 
group’’— 
(A) means, with respect to a State or polit-
ical subdivision, the members of a single lan-
guage minority who do not meet the require-
ments of clause (i) or (ii) of section 203(b)(2)(A) 
of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 
10503(b)(2)(A)); and 
(B) includes the language minorities de-
scribed in section 203(g) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 
10503(g)) and any other language minority; 
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(2) the term ‘‘election cycle’’ means the period 
which begins on the day after the date of a regularly 
scheduled general election for Federal office and which 
ends on the date of the next regularly scheduled gen-
eral election for Federal office; 
(3) the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the several 
States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Mariana Islands; and 
(4) the term ‘‘voting materials’’ has the meaning 
given under section 203(b)(3)(A) of the Voting Rights 
Act of 1065 (52 U.S.C. 10503(b)(3)(A)). 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$15,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
SEC. 5. STUDY ON CERTAIN LANGUAGE MINORITY NOTICE 
REQUIREMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of the 
United States, in consultation with the Director of the Cen-
sus, the Attorney General, and the Election Assistance Com-
mission, shall conduct a study on the impact of— 
(1) reducing the threshold requirement— 
(A) 
under 
subclause 
(II) 
of 
section 
203(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 
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(52 U.S.C. 10503(b)(2)(A)(i)) to 7,500 and 
5,000, respectively; and 
(B) under subclause (I) or (III) of section 
203(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 
(52 U.S.C. 10503(b)(2)(A)(i)) to 4 percent, 3 
percent, 2.5 percent, and 2 percent, respectively; 
and 
(2) expanding the definition of the term ‘‘lan-
guage minorities’’ to include native speakers of Ara-
bic, French and Haitian Creole, and any other lan-
guage that the Comptroller General determines to be 
appropriate. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United 
States shall submit to Congress a report on the findings 
of the study conducted under subsection (a). 
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