SERVIS Act

Bill: 117-s-3485
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cruz, Ted [R-TX]
Introduced: 2022-01-12
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Disability assistance

Elections, voting, political campaign regulation

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Health care costs and insurance

Health information and medical records

Health technology, devices, supplies

Immunology and vaccination

Infectious and parasitic diseases

State and local government operations

Voting rights
Latest action: action_date: 2022-01-12
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-01-12
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Securing Enfranchisement and the Rights of Voters regardless of Inoculation Status Act or the SERVIS Act</strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits requiring voters to present vaccine passports or other information regarding their COVID-19 vaccination status, and also restricts masking requirements, for voting in federal elections.</p> <p>Specifically, the bill makes it unlawful for any state or political subdivision to require a voter to present a vaccine passport or other information regarding the voter's COVID-19 vaccination status.</p> <p>Further, a state or political subdivision may require a voter to wear a mask in order to enter a polling location only under certain circumstances. In particular, the state or political subdivision must (1) make masks readily available and at no cost to the voter and to an individual who accompanies the voter, and (2) provide reasonable accommodation from such masking requirement to an individual with a disability.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3485 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 12 (legislative day, January 10), 2022 Mr. Cruz introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration A BILL To ensure that the right to vote shall not be impaired due to vaccination status.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing Enfranchisement and the Rights of Voters regardless of Inoculation Status Act or the SERVIS Act . 2. Right to vote shall not be impaired (a) In general It shall be unlawful for any State or political subdivision, as such term is used in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ( 52 U.S.C. 10301 et seq. ), to require or impose a requirement that a voter or voters must present a vaccine passport or otherwise present information regarding their vaccination status in order to exercise the right to vote, including to vote in person, in any election involving any candidate for Federal office. (b) Masking requirement A State or political subdivision may require that a voter wear a mask in order to enter a polling location only if— (1) the State or political subdivision makes readily available and at no cost to the voter or any individual who accompanies the voter a mask sufficient to comply with any applicable masking requirement; and (2) the State or political subdivision provides reasonable accommodation from such requirement for individuals with a disability as recognized under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq. ). (c) Definition For purposes of this section, the term vaccination status means— (1) an individual’s status based on the voluntary election to receive or not to receive a COVID–19 vaccine; and (2) regardless of whether someone has or has not been vaccinated against COVID–19, an individual's status with respect to having or producing proof of such vaccination in the form of a vaccine passport or other medical records that would demonstrate whether an individual has been vaccinated against COVID–19.