Title: Save Voters Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Stop Automatically Voiding Eligible Voters Off Their Enlisted Rolls in States Act or the Save Voters Act
This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to prohibit states from removing individuals from voting rolls on the basis of a change of address unless the state has obtained objective and reliable evidence of an individual's change of residence. States may not use the failure of a registered individual to vote or respond to a notice as the basis for initiating the removal of the individual from the voting rolls due to a change of address.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3090 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3090

To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to clarify that a 
  State may not use an individual's failure to vote as the basis for 
 initiating the procedures provided under such Act for the removal of 
the individual from the official list of registered voters in the State 
on the grounds that the individual has changed residence, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 19, 2018

  Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Brown) introduced the following 
 bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and 
                             Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to clarify that a 
  State may not use an individual's failure to vote as the basis for 
 initiating the procedures provided under such Act for the removal of 
the individual from the official list of registered voters in the State 
on the grounds that the individual has changed residence, 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 ``Stop Automatically Voiding Eligible 
Voters Off Their Enlisted Rolls in States Act'' or the ``Save Voters 
Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION THAT STATES MAY NOT USE FAILURE TO VOTE AS BASIS 
              FOR INITIATING PROCEDURES TO REMOVE VOTERS FROM LIST OF 
              REGISTERED VOTERS ON GROUNDS OF CHANGED RESIDENCE.

    (a) Criteria for Confirmation of Voter Registration.--Section 8(b) 
of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20507(b)) is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (1);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(3) shall not use the failure of a registrant to vote or 
        the failure of a registrant to respond to a notice from the 
        State as the basis for sending the registrant the notice 
        described in subsection (d).''.
    (b) Criteria for Voter Removal Program.--Section 8(d) of such Act 
(52 U.S.C. 20507(d)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(3) A State may not use the procedures described in this 
        subsection with respect to any registrant unless the State has 
        first obtained objective and reliable evidence of the 
        registrant's change of residence. For purposes of this 
        paragraph, the objective and reliable evidence of a 
        registrant's change of residence shall not include the failure 
        of the registrant to vote or the failure of the registrant to 
        respond to a notice from the State.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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