You Must Be Alive To Vote Act of 2021
Bill: H.R.860 | Sponsor: Rep. Babin, Brian (R-TX)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
You Must Be Alive To Vote Act of 2021
This bill requires each state, in order to receive certain education and transportation funds, to annually certify that the state has an agreement with the Social Security Administration to share death information for the purpose of removing the names of ineligible voters from the official list of eligible voters.

To require States to obtain information from Social Security 
   Administration on deaths for purposes of voter registration list 
                  maintenance, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``You Must Be Alive To Vote Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. REQUIRING STATES TO OBTAIN INFORMATION FROM SOCIAL SECURITY 
              ADMINISTRATION ON DEATHS FOR PURPOSES OF VOTER 
              REGISTRATION LIST MAINTENANCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 8(a)(4)(A) of the National Voter 
Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(4)(A)) is amended to read 
as follows:
                    ``(A) the death of the registrant, as determined on 
                the basis of information obtained through records of 
                the State and of information obtained through ongoing 
                consultation with the Social Security Administration; 
                or''.
    (b) Authority To Match Data.--Section 205(r) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 405(r)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(10) The Commissioner of Social Security shall, upon the request 
of a State pursuant to section 8(a)(4)(A) of the National Voter 
Registration Act of 1993--
            ``(A) enter into an agreement with the State for the 
        purpose of matching data in the records of the Social Security 
        Administration and the official list of eligible voters of the 
        State; and
            ``(B) include in such agreement safeguards to assure the 
        maintenance of the confidentiality of any information 
        disclosed.''.
    (c) Annual Certification; Enforcement.--
            (1) Certification.--Each State shall certify, with respect 
        to each calendar year, to the Secretary of Education and the 
        Secretary of Transportation that the State has in place an 
        agreement with the Social Security Administration to share 
        death information for purposes of section 8(a)(4)(A) of the 
        National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
            (2) Penalties for noncompliance.--With respect to any 
        calendar year in which a State has failed to so certify, the 
        Secretaries of Education and Transportation may not make 
        available any Federal funds to the State, any county within the 
        State, or any resident of the State.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) the term ``State'' means a State of the United States 
        and the District of Columbia; and
            (2) the term ``county'' means a parish in Louisiana, a 
        borough in Alaska, or a county in the other 48 States.
    (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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