Title: To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance protections regarding voter registration, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to provide that, for purposes of voting for any federal, state, or local office, a servicemember who registers to vote in a state in which he or she is present in compliance with military orders for a permanent change of station shall not, solely by reason of that registration, be deemed to have: (1) acquired a residence or domicile in that state; (2) become a resident in or of that state; or (3) lost a residence or domicile in any other state, without regard to whether the person intends to return to that state.
Within 10 days after a servicemember registers to vote in the state in which he or she is present in compliance with such orders: (1) such servicemember shall notify the Service Voting Action Officer of the military department concerned, and (2) such officer shall notify the chief state election official of the state in which the servicemember resides or is domiciled.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2694 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2694

  To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance protections 
         regarding voter registration, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 25, 2017

   Mr. Issa (for himself, Mr. Chabot, Mr. Dent, Mr. Hensarling, Mrs. 
 Brooks of Indiana, Mr. Banks of Indiana, Mr. Davidson, Mr. Dunn, and 
Mr. Peterson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to enhance protections 
         regarding voter registration, 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. VOTER REGISTRATION.

    Section 705 of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 U.S.C. 
4025(a)), is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(c) Registration.--
            ``(1) In general.--For the purposes of voting for any 
        Federal office (as defined in section 30101 of title 52, United 
        States Code) or a State or local office, a servicemember who 
        registers to vote in a State in which the servicemember is 
        present in compliance with military orders for a permanent 
        change of station shall not, solely by reason of that 
        registration--
                    ``(A) be deemed to have acquired a residence or 
                domicile in that State;
                    ``(B) be deemed to have become a resident in or a 
                resident of that State; or
                    ``(C) be deemed to have lost a residence or 
                domicile in any other State, without regard to whether 
                or not the person intends to return to that State.
            ``(2) Notification by the servicemember.--A servicemember 
        who elects to register to vote in the State in which the 
        servicemember is present in compliance with military orders for 
        a permanent change of station shall notify the Service Voting 
        Action Officer of the military department concerned not later 
        than 10 days after such registration.
            ``(3) Notification by the service voting action officer.--A 
        Service Voting Action Officer who receives a notification under 
        paragraph (2) shall notify the chief State election official of 
        the State in which the servicemember resides or is domiciled of 
        such registration not later than 10 days after such 
        registration.''.
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