Know Your Polling Place Act

Bill: 117-hr-1278
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Allred, Colin Z. [D-TX-32]
Introduced: 2021-02-24
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congressional elections

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

State and local government operations

Voting rights
Latest action: action_date: 2021-02-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-02-24
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Know Your Polling Place Act</b></p> <p>This bill establishes minimum requirements for notifying individuals of a change in their polling place for a federal election.</p> <p>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. </p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1278 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 A BILL To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Know Your Polling Place Act . 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 .