Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote.

Bill: 116-hjres-93
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2020-08-07
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Constitution and constitutional amendments

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Voting rights
Latest action: action_date: 2020-08-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-08-07
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment related to the fundamental right to vote.</p> <p>Specifically, it grants every U.S. citizen of legal voting age the fundamental right to vote in any public election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides.</p>

tv_txt: IA 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. J. RES. 93 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES August 7, 2020 Mr. Pocan (for himself, Ms. Barragán , Mr. Blumenauer , Ms. Blunt Rochester , Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania , Mr. Cartwright , Ms. Clark of Massachusetts , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Garamendi , Ms. Garcia of Texas , Mr. Grijalva , Mr. Hastings , Ms. Jayapal , Mr. Johnson of Georgia , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Khanna , Ms. Kelly of Illinois , Ms. Lee of California , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. McGovern , Ms. Meng , Ms. Moore , Mr. Norcross , Ms. Norton , Ms. Pressley , Mr. Raskin , Ms. Roybal-Allard , Mr. Rush , Ms. Schakowsky , Ms. Sewell of Alabama , Mr. Takano , Ms. Tlaib , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Veasey , Ms. Wasserman Schultz , and Mr. Yarmuth ) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right to vote.

That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States after the date of its submission for ratification: — 1. Every citizen of the United States, who is of legal voting age, shall have the fundamental right to vote in any public election held in the jurisdiction in which the citizen resides. 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce and implement this article by appropriate legislation. .