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Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Civil rights and liberties, minority issues
Date: 2015-02-11 00:00:00

Civil Rights Voting Restoration Act of 2015

 Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because the individual has been convicted of a non-violent criminal offense, unless, at the time of the election, the individual is serving a sentence in a correctional facility or a term of probation.

Restores the right to vote of an individual on probation: (1) on the date the term of probation ends, if such term is less than one year; or (2) one year after the date the individual begins serving the term of probation, if such term is one year or longer.

Directs the Attorney General to determine and establish a list of the criminal offenses under federal and state law that are non-violent criminal offenses.

Provides for enforcement of, and remedies for violations of, this Act.

Sets forth requirements for state and federal notification of individuals of their voting rights pursuant to this Act.

Prohibits a state, local government, or other person from receiving or using federal grant amounts to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has in effect a program under which each incarcerated individual is notified, upon release, of his or her rights under this Act.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Civil rights and liberties, minority issues
Date: 2015-03-18 00:00:00

Democracy Restoration Act of 2015

 Declares that the right of a U.S. citizen to vote in any election for federal office shall not be denied or abridged because that individual has been convicted of a criminal offense unless, at the time of the election, such individual is serving a felony sentence in a correctional institution or facility. Provides for enforcement of, and remedies for violations of, this Act.

Prohibits this Act from being construed to prohibit a state from enacting any state law that affords the right to vote in any election for federal office on terms less restrictive than those terms established by this Act. Declares that the rights and remedies established by this Act shall be in addition to all other rights and remedies provided by law and shall not supersede, restrict, or limit the application of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the National Voter Registration Act. Sets forth requirements for state and federal notification of individuals of the restoration of their voting rights. Prohibits any state, local government, or other person from receiving or using any federal funds to construct or improve a place of incarceration unless that person has in effect a program to notify each U.S. citizen incarcerated in that person's jurisdiction, upon release from such incarceration, of that individual's rights under this Act.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-04-27 00:00:00

Voter Registration Modernization Act 

 Amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require each state to make available official public websites for online voter registration.

Directs the appropriate state or local election official to ensure that information on the computerized statewide voter registration list may be updated through the official public website.

Directs the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study best practices for implementing the requirements for Internet registration and the online updating of voter registration information.

Authorizes the provision of election information by electronic mail to individuals registered to vote who have requested to receive it.

Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make an implementation payment each year to enable each state to meet the requirements of this Act and to carry out activities to improve the administration of federal elections.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-04-30 00:00:00

Same Day Registration Act

 Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require states with a voter registration requirement to make same-day voter registration available at the polling place on the date of election itself (or on the day of voting under early voting).
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-08-05 00:00:00

This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to: (1) develop an online voter registration application platform; and (2) forward automatically completed online voter registration application forms and cancellation requests to the appropriate chief state election officials and, acting through such officials, to appropriate state and local election officials in the state.

The EAC shall automatically connect registration applicants to the state platform in lieu of the federal platform in any state that has developed one meeting the requirements of this Act.

A state may require a first-time voter registered online to vote in person.

The Postmaster General shall ensure that the U.S. Postal Service Online Change of Address process incorporates the online voter registration platform and allows individuals to register to vote during the process.

The Act is amended with respect to administration of voter registration to change the voter registration application deadline from the lesser of 30 days or the period provided by state law before the date of election to the lesser of 28 days or the period provided by state law.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-08-05 00:00:00

This bill amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require each state to: (1) allow individuals to vote in a federal election before the date of the election through early voting or voting by mail, and (2) publicize the details of such voting.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-08-05 00:00:00

This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to revise requirements for notifying a voting registrar of a change of address before the date of an election.

If a registrant has failed to notify the registrar of a change of address within a state before an election day, the registrant shall nevertheless, upon an oral or written affirmation before an election official, be permitted to vote at either the polling place of the registrant's current address or a central location within the same registrar's jurisdiction.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2015-08-05 00:00:00

Raising Enrollment with a Government Initiated System for Timely Electoral Registration (REGISTER) Act of 2015

This bill requires each state to designate agencies (including motor vehicle authorities) to transfer electronically to state or local election officials source information on individuals for automatic voter registration for federal elections, unless an individual disclosing information to the agency opts out of automatic registration.

Such information must be transferred in a format that can be reviewed by state or local election officials and uploaded into a computerized statewide voter registration database.

Registration of eligible voters not previously registered, and who have not opted out, is mandatory.

A state must publish and enforce privacy and information security standards meeting specified requirements.
Topic: Civil Rights — Voting Rights
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2016-12-08 00:00:00

Louis L. Redding Fair, Accurate, Secure, and Timely Voting Act of 2016 or the FAST Voting Act of 2016 

 This bill directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to award grants, on a competitive basis, to enable states to: (1) invest in practices and technology designed to expedite voting at the polls, and (2) simplify voter registration.

 The grant application shall include a comprehensive and coherent plan for using funds to improve the applicant's performance on specified measures with respect to: (1) flexible registration opportunities, (2) early and absentee voting, (3) assistance to non-English speaking and disabled voters, and (4) other related matters. Each grantee shall establish performance measures and targets, approved by DOJ , that track its progress in implementing its plan and expediting voting at the polls or simplifying voter registration, as applicable.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2007-01-05 00:00:00

R.S. 2477 Rights-Of-Way Recognition Act - Expresses congressional intent with respect to the nature of authorized rights-of-way granted and accepted for the construction of highways (routes over which the public has a right of passage, including routes used for travel, such as roads for motorized vehicles, carriage ways, navigable rivers, trails, and footpaths) over public lands not reserved for public uses under former section 2477 of the Revised Statutes. Describes the protocols that shall apply with respect to maintenance, repairs, and improvements of R.S. 2477 highways. Acknowledges and recognizes public rights-of-way over federal land (or any federal-land portion of a public right-of-way over both federal and non-federal land) for highways shown in certain official governmental maps and aerial photographs as having validly vested under R.S. 2477 and disclaims all right, title, and interest with respect thereto.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-01-11 00:00:00

Amends federal highway law to direct the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to establish: (1) a national highway tunnel inspection program, including standards for the proper safety inspection and evaluation of all highway tunnels; (2) a training and certification program for highway tunnel inspectors; and (3) a national inventory of highway tunnels. Provides for funding. Includes tunnel construction, rehabilitation, and operational improvements (including safety inspection of such tunnels) as eligible projects under the federal surface transportation program.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-01-24 00:00:00

Authorizes states to place supplemental guide signs relating to veterans cemeteries on federal-aid highways.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-02-08 00:00:00

States that for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining a connector road known as the Lemay Connector Road (St. Louis County Arterial Road 1151) in the city and county of St. Louis, Missouri, no provision of federal law that requires a deed restriction shall apply to parcels of real property depicted on a specified map filed with the St. Louis County department of highways and traffic and available for public inspection.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Commerce
Date: 2007-02-13 00:00:00

Damaged Vehicle Information Act - Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation to issue a regulation to require persons who terminate a motor vehicle contract due to flood or water damage, collision, fire damage, theft and recovery, or any circumstance that adversely affects the fair market value of the vehicle to disclose information of such vehicle damage to the public.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-02-14 00:00:00

California State Route 91 Congestion Relief Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to carry out certain transportation projects to relieve congestion on State Route 91, California. Sets the federal share of project costs at 80%.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-02-15 00:00:00

Professional Driver Background Check Efficiency Act of 2007 - Amends federal transportation law to revise background records check requirements with respect to the issuance of a motor vehicle license for the transportation of hazardous materials to: (1) impose a fee of not more than $50 upon the applicant to cover the costs of the background check; and (2) authorize the costs for such background checks be reimbursed to the state.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-02-27 00:00:00

Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act of 2007 or the K.T. Safety Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to initiate a rulemaking for motor vehicles to require: (1) automatic reversal of direction by power windows and panels when they detect an obstruction; (2) an expanded rearward field of view to prevent backing incidents; and (3) automatic transmissions to have an anti-rollaway system that requires the service brake to be depressed before the transmission can be shifted out of park, which shall function in any starting system key position in which the transmission can be shifted out of park. Requires the Secretary, if it is determined that no additional safety standards are reasonable and appropriate, to: (1) report to Congress the reason such standards were not prescribed; and (2) make available to the public information on which vehicles are or are not equipped with automatic reversal of direction by power windows and panels when they detect an obstruction. Provides a phase-in period for the power window and rearward visibility provisions. Requires: (1) motor vehicle manufacturers for each year through 2010 to transmit to the Secretary the make and model of motor vehicles with automatic transmissions that do not have an anti-rollaway system; and (2) the Secretary to make such information available to the public. Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish and maintain a database of injuries and deaths in nontraffic, noncrash motor vehicle events; (2) supplement an existing consumer information program on child safety or create a new program with information about hazards to children in nontraffic, noncrash incident situations; and (3) make such information available to the public.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-03-29 00:00:00

NAFTA Trucking Safety Act of 2007 - Prohibits a Mexico-domiciled motor carrier from being granted authority to operate beyond U.S. municipalities and commercial zones on the U.S.-Mexico border until one or more of the following officials as specified (the Secretaries of Transportation and of Homeland Security and the Department of Transportation Inspector General) certify to Congress that they have met conditions pertaining to: (1) the identification of federal motor carrier safety regulations and acceptance of compliance with Mexican safety regulations; (2) safety enforcement tools; (3) effective and regular monitoring and enforcement of immigration and customs regulations regarding international traffic under the North American Free Trade Agreement; (4) penalties for violation of immigration and customs laws or regulations concerning transportation by Mexico-domiciled carriers; (5) driver records databases used in Mexico; (6) compliance with conditions listed in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 concerning cross-border trucking safety; and (7) English language proficiency requirements applicable to drivers.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-03-29 00:00:00

Revises weight limits of commercial motor vehicles with respect to federal commercial motor vehicle safety laws to apply such laws to vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater (currently, applies to such vehicles having a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater, or a lesser gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight, but in any event not less than a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds).
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-03-29 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to allow the commonwealth of Virginia to remove the high occupancy vehicle designation for one or more of Interstate Routes I-64, I-264, and I-564 in the Hampton Roads area. Requires the Secretary to waive the repayment of federal highway funds expended by the commonwealth of Virginia on the construction of any high occupancy lane or auxiliary lane on such routes due to the removal of the high occupancy designation on such lane.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-05-10 00:00:00

Commercial Truck Highway Safety Demonstration Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to carry out a program to demonstrate the effects on the safety of the highway network in Maine of permitting operation on the Interstate System highways within the state of a vehicle that weighs over 80,000 pounds, that consists of a three-axle tractor unit hauling a single trailer or semitrailer, and that does not exceed any vehicle weight limitation applicable under Maine law. Waives highway funding reduction relating to weight of vehicles using Interstate System highways with respect to vehicles allowed pursuant to this program. Provides for program termination and for the responsibilities of the state of Maine, including: (1) submitting a plan to the Secretary; (2) establishing a highway safety committee; and (3) collecting data on the net effects of the operation of such vehicles on safety.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-05-23 00:00:00

Emergency Gas Price Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce highway motor fuel excise taxes by 10 cents per gallon, beginning on the date when the retail price for gasoline is greater than $3.00 per gallon and ending when such price is less than $2.50 per gallon (reduction period). Allows a tax credit or refund of such excise tax to a taxpayer for floor stocks of highway motor fuels held by dealers prior to the reduction period.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-05-23 00:00:00

End Discriminatory State Taxes for Automobile Renters Act of 2007 - Prohibits states or local governments from levying or collecting a discriminatory tax (as defined by this Act) on the rental of motor vehicles, motor vehicle rental businesses, or motor vehicle rental property.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-05-24 00:00:00

Promoting the Use of Mixed Petroleum Act or the E-85 PUMP Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the rate of the tax credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property from 30 to 50%; (2) increase the limit on such credit for commercial properties to $50,000; and (3) extend such credit through 2014.Amends the Clayton Antitrust Act to make it an unlawful restriction of trade to prohibit a service station franchisee from installing alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-06-11 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Transportation, in providing assistance for projects to eliminate hazards of railway-highway crossings, to give priority consideration to emergency grade crossing safety improvements at railroad grade crossings where there have been multiple serious collisions.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-07-19 00:00:00

Amends commercial motor vehicle safety requirements to exempt drivers of intrastate commercial vehicles engaged in agricultural-related activities from certain federal commercial motor vehicle and operator regulations.Revises the definition of the term "commercial motor vehicle" with respect to federal commercial motor vehicle laws, including to mean a motor vehicle used in commerce to transport passengers or property that has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds (under current law, a motor vehicle used in commerce to transport passengers or property that has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight of at least 26,001 pounds, whichever is greater, or a lesser gross vehicle weight rating or gross vehicle weight the Secretary of Transportation prescribes by regulation, but not less than a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds).
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-07-31 00:00:00

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on state revenues from tolls first imposed during 2009 for the use of any federal-aid interstate highway. Makes such tax revenues available to the Secretary of Labor for use in carrying out the trade adjustment assistance program under the Trade Act of 1974.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-09-10 00:00:00

Prohibits, with a specified exception, the imposition or collection of a toll on any portion of a federal highway facility: (1) that is in existence upon enactment of this Act; and (2) on which no toll is imposed or collected under a tolling provision on such enactment.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Science, technology, communications
Date: 2007-09-18 00:00:00

Insular Rate for Cellular Customers Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to declare that, for purposes of rate integration for wireless interstate telecommunications services, a provider of a commercial mobile radio service shall, with respect to any interstate services, be treated as a provider of interstate, interexchange telecommunications services.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-09-26 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish programs to provide grants to states and units of local government for projects that implement continuous bridge monitoring technology.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00

Toll Road Prohibition Act of 2007 - Prohibits a toll from being collected on highways, bridges, or tunnels that have been constructed with federal funds unless such funds (including reasonable interest) are repaid to the United States from non-federal sources.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00

Commercial Motor Vehicle Advanced Safety Technology Tax Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for 50% of the cost of placing in service any qualified commercial vehicle advanced safety system. Defines "qualified commercial vehicle advanced safety system" as a manufacturer-certified brake stroke monitoring system, lane departure warning system, collision warning system, or vehicle stability system identified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as significantly enhancing the safety or security of commercial drivers, vehicles, or passengers. Terminates such credit after 2012.
Topic: Transportation — Highways
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-10-17 00:00:00

Minnesota Bridge Repair Act - Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary of Transportation for emergency repairs and reconstruction of the Interstate I-35W bridge located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that collapsed on August 1, 2007. Rescinds the total amount required to offset the new discretionary budget authority provided in this Act.