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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 239
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require States to provide
for same day registration.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY10, 2023
Ms. B
ROWNLEY(for herself, Ms. NORTON, and Mr. GARAMENDI) introduced
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Admin-
istration
A BILL
To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require
States to provide for same day registration.
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 ‘‘Same Day Registration 4
Act of 2023’’. 5
SEC. 2. SAME DAY REGISTRATION. 6
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Title III of the Help America 7
Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21081 et seq.) is amended— 8
(1) by redesignating sections 304 and 305 as 9
sections 305 and 306, respectively; and 10
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(2) by inserting after section 303 the following 1
new section: 2
‘‘SEC. 304. SAME DAY REGISTRATION. 3
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.— 4
‘‘(1) R
EGISTRATION.—Notwithstanding section 5
8(a)(1)(D) of the National Voter Registration Act of 6
1993 (52 U.S.C. 20507(a)(1)(D)), each State shall 7
permit any eligible individual on the day of a Fed-8
eral election and on any day when voting, including 9
early voting, is permitted for a Federal election— 10
‘‘(A) to register to vote in such election at 11
the polling place using a form that meets the 12
requirements under section 9(b) of the National 13
Voter Registration Act of 1993 (or, if the indi-14
vidual is already registered to vote, to revise 15
any of the individual’s voter registration infor-16
mation); and 17
‘‘(B) to cast a vote in such election. 18
‘‘(2) E
XCEPTION.—The requirements under 19
paragraph (1) shall not apply to a State in which, 20
under a State law in effect continuously on and after 21
the date of the enactment of this section, there is no 22
voter registration requirement for individuals in the 23
State with respect to elections for Federal office. 24
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‘‘(b) ELIGIBLEINDIVIDUAL.—For purposes of this 1
section, the term ‘eligible individual’ means, with respect 2
to any election for Federal office, an individual who is oth-3
erwise qualified to vote in that election. 4
‘‘(c) E
FFECTIVEDATE.—Each State shall be re-5
quired to comply with the requirements of subsection (a) 6
for the regularly scheduled general election for Federal of-7
fice occurring in November 2024 and for any subsequent 8
election for Federal office.’’. 9
(b) C
ONFORMINGAMENDMENT RELATING TOEN-10
FORCEMENT.—Section 401 of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21111) 11
is amended by striking ‘‘and 303’’ and inserting ‘‘303, and 12
304’’. 13
(c) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 14
of such Act is amended— 15
(1) by redesignating the items relating to sec-16
tions 304 and 305 as relating to sections 305 and 17
306, respectively; and 18
(2) by inserting after the item relating to sec-19
tion 303 the following new item: 20
‘‘Sec. 304. Same day registration.’’.
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