Title: Vote by Mail Tracking Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Vote by Mail Tracking Act
This bill requires mail-in ballots to (1) contain a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) barcode that enables tracking of each individual ballot, (2) satisfy USPS requirements for ballot envelope design and machinable letters, and (3) include the official election mail logo.
The federal government must reimburse each state (including the District of Columbia and any U.S. territory or possession) for the cost of using the barcode service.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1307 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1307

 To amend title 39, United States Code, to require mail-in ballots to 
    use the Postal Service barcode service, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2021

  Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York introduced the following bill; 
      which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 39, United States Code, to require mail-in ballots to 
    use the Postal Service barcode service, 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 ``Vote by Mail Tracking Act''.

SEC. 2. MAIL-IN BALLOTS AND POSTAL SERVICE BARCODE SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(p) Any ballot sent within the United States for an election for 
Federal office is nonmailable and shall not be carried or delivered by 
mail unless the ballot is mailed in an envelope that--
            ``(1) contains a Postal Service barcode (or successive 
        service or marking) that enables tracking of each individual 
        ballot;
            ``(2) satisfies requirements for ballot envelope design 
        that the Postal Service may promulgate by regulation;
            ``(3) satisfies requirements for machineable letters that 
        the Postal Service may promulgate by regulation; and
            ``(4) includes the Official Election Mail Logo (or any 
        successor label that the Postal Service may establish for 
        ballots).''.
    (b) Application.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to any election for Federal office occurring after the date of 
enactment of this Act.
    (c) Reimbursement to States.--
            (1) In general.--The Federal Government shall reimburse 
        each State (including the District of Columbia and any 
        territory or possession of the United States) for the cost of 
        using the Postal Service barcode service as required under 
        subsection (p) of section 3001 of title 39, United States Code, 
        as added by subsection (a).
            (2) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year 
        thereafter such sums as may be necessary, to be derived from 
        the general fund of the Treasury, for reimbursing States for 
        such cost.
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