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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1583
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit interfering with voter
registration, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH14, 2023
Mr. K
IMof New Jersey (for himself and Mr. NORCROSS) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and
in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee
concerned
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit
interfering with voter registration, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Alice Paul Voter Pro-4
tection Act’’. 5
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SEC. 2. PROHIBITING HINDERING, INTERFERING WITH, OR 1
PREVENTING VOTER REGISTRATION. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Chapter 29 of title 18, United 3
States Code is amended by adding at the end the following 4
new section: 5
‘‘§ 612. Hindering, interfering with, or preventing 6
registering to vote 7
‘‘(a) P
ROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for any per-8
son, whether acting under color of law or otherwise, to 9
corruptly hinder, interfere with, or prevent another person 10
from registering to vote or to corruptly hinder, interfere 11
with, or prevent another person from aiding another per-12
son in registering to vote. 13
‘‘(b) A
TTEMPT.—Any person who attempts to commit 14
any offense described in subsection (a) shall be subject to 15
the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense that 16
the person attempted to commit. 17
‘‘(c) P
ENALTY.—Any person who violates subsection 18
(a) shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more 19
than 5 years, or both.’’. 20
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 21
for chapter 29 of title 18, United States Code is amended 22
by adding at the end the following new item: 23
‘‘612. Hindering, interfering with, or preventing registering to vote.’’.
(c) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 24
this section shall apply with respect to elections held on 25
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or after the date of the enactment of this Act, except that 1
no person may be found to have violated section 612 of 2
title 18, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), 3
on the basis of any act occurring prior to the date of the 4
enactment of this Act. 5
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF BEST PRACTICES. 6
(a) B
ESTPRACTICES.—Not later than 180 days after 7
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Election Assist-8
ance Commission shall develop and publish recommenda-9
tions for best practices for States to use to deter and pre-10
vent violations of section 612 of title 18, United States 11
Code (as added by section 2), and section 12 of the Na-12
tional Voter Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20511) 13
(relating to the unlawful interference with registering to 14
vote, or voting, or attempting to register to vote or vote), 15
including practices to provide for the posting of relevant 16
information at polling places and voter registration agen-17
cies under such Act, the training of poll workers and elec-18
tion officials, and relevant educational materials. For pur-19
poses of this subsection, the term ‘‘State’’ includes the 20
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 21
Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Is-22
lands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 23
Islands. 24
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(b) INCLUSION INVOTERINFORMATIONREQUIRE-1
MENTS.—Section 302(b)(2) of the Help America Vote Act 2
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21082(b)(2)) is amended— 3
(1) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-4
graph (E); 5
(2) by striking the period at the end of sub-6
paragraph (F) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 7
(3) by adding at the end the following new sub-8
paragraph: 9
‘‘(G) information relating to the prohibi-10
tions of section 612 of title 18, United States 11
Code, and section 12 of the National Voter 12
Registration Act of 1993 (52 U.S.C. 20511) 13
(relating to the unlawful interference with reg-14
istering to vote, or voting, or attempting to reg-15
ister to vote or vote), including information on 16
how individuals may report allegations of viola-17
tions of such prohibitions.’’. 18
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