Voter Registration Reporting Act of 2021
Bill: H.R.639 | Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Anthony G. (D-MD)
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Voter Registration Reporting Act of 2021
This bill requires each state with a voter registration requirement to annually report to the Election Assistance Commission and Congress on voter registration statistics, including the number of individuals who were automatically registered to vote in federal elections. Additionally, the report must include a breakdown of each category of information by race, ethnicity, age, and gender.

To require States to submit annual reports on voter registration to the 
                    Election Assistance Commission.

    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 ``Voter Registration Reporting Act of 
2021''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL REPORTS ON VOTER REGISTRATION STATISTICS.

    (a) Annual Report.--Not later than 90 days after the end of each 
year, each State shall submit to the Election Assistance Commission and 
Congress a report containing the following categories of information 
for the year:
            (1) The number of individuals who were registered by 
        automatic registration.
            (2) The number of voter registration application forms 
        completed by individuals that were transmitted by motor vehicle 
        authorities in the State (pursuant to section 5(d) of the 
        National Voter Registration Act of 1993) and voter registration 
        agencies in the State (as designated under section 7 of such 
        Act) to the chief State election official of the State, broken 
        down by each such authority and agency.
            (3) The number of such individuals whose voter registration 
        application forms were accepted and who were registered to vote 
        in the State and the number of such individuals whose forms 
        were rejected and who were not registered to vote in the State, 
        broken down by each such authority and agency.
            (4) The number of change of address forms and other forms 
        of information indicating that an individual's identifying 
        information has been changed that were transmitted by such 
        motor vehicle authorities and voter registration agencies to 
        the chief State election official of the State, broken down by 
        each such authority and agency and the type of form 
        transmitted.
            (5) The number of individuals on the statewide computerized 
        voter registration list (as established and maintained under 
        section 303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002) whose voter 
        registration information was revised by the chief State 
        election official as a result of the forms transmitted to the 
        official by such motor vehicle authorities and voter 
        registration agencies (as described in paragraph (3)), broken 
        down by each such authority and agency and the type of form 
        transmitted.
            (6) The number of individuals who requested the chief State 
        election official to revise voter registration information on 
        such list, and the number of individuals whose information was 
        revised as a result of such a request.
    (b) Breakdown of Information.--In preparing the report under this 
section, the State shall, for each category of information described in 
subsection (a), include a breakdown by race, ethnicity, age, and gender 
of the individuals whose information is included in the category, to 
the extent that information on the race, ethnicity, age, and gender of 
such individuals is available to the State.
    (c) Confidentiality of Information.--In preparing and submitting a 
report under this section, the chief State election official shall 
ensure that no information regarding the identification of any 
individual is revealed.
    (d) Definitions.--
            (1) Automatic voter registration.--In this section, the 
        term ``automatic registration'' means a system that registers 
        an individual to vote in elections for Federal office in a 
        State, if eligible, by electronically transferring the 
        information necessary for registration from government agencies 
        to election officials of the State so that, unless the 
        individual affirmatively declines to be registered, the 
        individual will be registered to vote in such elections.
            (2) State.--In this section, the term ``State'' includes 
        the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
        United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, but does not 
        include any State in which, under a State law in effect 
        continuously on and after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, there is no voter registration requirement for individuals 
        in the State with respect to elections for Federal office.
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