Title: Know Your Polling Place Act
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
Know Your Polling Place Act
This bill establishes minimum requirements for notifying individuals of a change in their polling place for a federal election.
Specifically, the bill requires a state that changes an individual's polling place to notify the individual at least seven days before the federal election. However, if the change is made fewer than seven days before the federal election and the individual appears at the previously assigned polling place, the state must make every reasonable effort to enable the individual to vote.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1278 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1278

    To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum 
notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2021

   Mr. Allred (for himself, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Ms. Norton, Ms. 
   Sewell, and Mr. Foster) introduced the following bill; which was 
           referred to the Committee on House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum 
notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.

    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 ``Know Your Polling Place Act''.

SEC. 2. MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VOTERS AFFECTED BY 
              POLLING PLACE CHANGES.

    (a) Requirements.--Section 302 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 
(52 U.S.C. 21082) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as subsection (e); and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
        subsection:
    ``(d) Minimum Notification Requirements for Voters Affected by 
Polling Place Changes.--
            ``(1) In general.--If a State assigns an individual who is 
        a registered voter in a State to a polling place with respect 
        to an election for Federal office which is not the same polling 
        place to which the individual was previously assigned with 
        respect to the most recent election for Federal office in the 
        State in which the individual was eligible to vote--
                    ``(A) the State shall notify the individual of the 
                location of the polling place not later than 7 days 
                before the date of the election; or
                    ``(B) if the State makes such an assignment fewer 
                than 7 days before the date of the election and the 
                individual appears on the date of the election at the 
                polling place to which the individual was previously 
                assigned, the State shall make every reasonable effort 
                to enable the individual to vote on the date of the 
                election.
            ``(2) Effective date.--This subsection shall apply with 
        respect to elections held on or after January 1, 2022.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 302(e) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 
21082(f)), as redesignated by subsection (a), is amended by striking 
``Each State'' and inserting ``Except as provided in subsection (d)(2), 
each State''.
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