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118THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 5290
To require the inclusion of voter registration information with certain leases
and vouchers for federally assisted rental housing and mortgage applica-
tions, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST25, 2023
Ms. W
ILLIAMSof Georgia (for herself, Mr. SARBANES, Mr. VEASEY, Ms. SE-
WELL, Mr. GARCI´Aof Illinois, Mr. SCOTTof Virginia, Ms. GARCIAof
Texas, Mr. T
ORRESof New York, Mr. THOMPSONof Mississippi, Ms.
P
ORTER, Mr. VARGAS, Mr. IVEY, Mr. EVANS, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. LEEof
California, Mr. E
SPAILLAT, Ms. JACOBS, Mr. CARTERof Louisiana, Ms.
C
LARKEof New York, Ms. SCANLON, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. KAMLAGER-
D
OVE, Mr. MULLIN, Ms. BROWN, Mrs. WATSONCOLEMAN, Mr. DOG-
GETT, Ms. WILD, Ms. CROCKETT, Ms. JACKSONLEE, Ms. NORTON, Mr.
D
ELUZIO, Ms. MCCLELLAN, Ms. JAYAPAL, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. SA´NCHEZ,
Ms. S
CHAKOWSKY, Mr. NICKEL, Mr. JACKSONof Illinois, Ms. TITUS, Ms.
K
ELLYof Illinois, Mr. GREENof Texas, Ms. TLAIB, Mr. JOHNSONof
Georgia, Mr. B
OWMAN, Ms. WASSERMANSCHULTZ, Mr. PAYNE, Mr.
K
RISHNAMOORTHI, Ms. SCHOLTEN, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mrs. CHERFILUS-
M
CCORMICK, Mr. DAVISof Illinois, Mr. RYAN, Mr. RASKIN, and Mrs.
N
APOLITANO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To require the inclusion of voter registration information
with certain leases and vouchers for federally assisted
rental housing and mortgage applications, and for other
purposes.
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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 ‘‘Voters on the Move 4
Registration Act of 2023’’. 5
SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF VOTER REGISTRATION INFORMA-6
TION WITH CERTAIN LEASES AND VOUCHERS 7
FOR FEDERALLY ASSISTED RENTAL HOUSING 8
AND MORTGAGE APPLICATIONS. 9
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 10
(1) B
UREAU.—The term ‘‘Bureau’’ means the 11
Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. 12
(2) D
IRECTOR.—The term ‘‘Director’’ means 13
the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. 14
(3) F
EDERAL RENTAL ASSISTANCE .—The term 15
‘‘Federal rental assistance’’ means rental assistance 16
provided under— 17
(A) any covered housing program, as de-18
fined in section 41411(a) of the Violence 19
Against Women Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 20
12491(a)); 21
(B) title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 22
U.S.C. 1471 et seq.), including voucher assist-23
ance under section 542 of such title (42 U.S.C. 24
1490r); 25
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(C) the Housing Trust Fund program 1
under section 1338 of the Federal Housing En-2
terprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act 3
of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4588); or 4
(D) subtitle C of title IV of the McKinney- 5
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 6
11381 et seq.). 7
(4) F
EDERALLY BACKED MULTIFAMILY MORT -8
GAGE LOAN.—The term ‘‘Federally backed multi-9
family mortgage loan’’ includes any loan (other than 10
temporary financing such as a construction loan) 11
that— 12
(A) is secured by a first or subordinate lien 13
on residential multifamily real property de-14
signed principally for the occupancy of 5 or 15
more families, including any such secured loan, 16
the proceeds of which are used to prepay or pay 17
off an existing loan secured by the same prop-18
erty; and 19
(B) is made in whole or in part, or in-20
sured, guaranteed, supplemented, or assisted in 21
any way, by any officer or agency of the Fed-22
eral Government or under or in connection with 23
a housing or urban development program ad-24
ministered by the Secretary of Housing and 25
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Urban Development or a housing or related 1
program administered by any other such officer 2
or agency, or is purchased or securitized by the 3
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or 4
the Federal National Mortgage Association. 5
(5) O
WNER.—The term ‘‘owner’’ has the mean-6
ing given the term in section 8(f) of the United 7
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(f)). 8
(6) P
UBLIC HOUSING; PUBLIC HOUSING AGEN -9
CY.—The terms ‘‘public housing’’ and ‘‘public hous-10
ing agency’’ have the meanings given those terms in 11
section 3(b) of the United States Housing Act of 12
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)). 13
(7) R
ESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE LOAN .—The term 14
‘‘residential mortgage loan’’ includes any loan that is 15
secured by a first or subordinate lien on residential 16
real property, including individual units of con-17
dominiums and cooperatives, designed principally for 18
the occupancy of from 1 to 4 families. 19
(b) U
NIFORMSTATEMENT.— 20
(1) D
EVELOPMENT.—The Director, after con-21
sultation with the Election Assistance Commission, 22
shall develop a uniform statement designed to pro-23
vide recipients of the statement pursuant to this sec-24
tion with information on how the recipient can reg-25
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ister to vote and the voting rights of the recipient 1
under law. 2
(2) R
ESPONSIBILITIES.—In developing the uni-3
form statement, the Director shall be responsible 4
for— 5
(A) establishing the format of the state-6
ment; 7
(B) consumer research and testing of the 8
statement; and 9
(C) consulting with and obtaining from the 10
Election Assistance Commission the content re-11
garding voter rights and registration issues 12
needed to ensure the statement complies with 13
the requirements of paragraph (1). 14
(3) L
ANGUAGES.—The uniform statement re-15
quired under paragraph (1) shall be developed and 16
made available in English and each of the 10 lan-17
guages most commonly spoken by individuals with 18
limited English proficiency, as determined by the Di-19
rector using information published by the Director 20
of the Bureau of the Census. The Director shall 21
make all translated versions of the uniform state-22
ment publicly available in a centralized location on 23
the Bureau’s website. 24
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(c) LEASES ANDVOUCHERS FOR FEDERALLYAS-1
SISTEDRENTALHOUSING.—Each Federal agency admin-2
istering a Federal rental assistance program, as appro-3
priate, shall require— 4
(1) each public housing agency to provide a 5
copy of the uniform statement developed pursuant to 6
subsection (b) to each lessee of a dwelling unit in 7
public housing administered by the agency— 8
(A) together with the lease for the dwelling 9
unit, at the same time the lease is signed by the 10
lessee; and 11
(B) together with any income verification 12
form, at the same time the form is provided to 13
the lessee; 14
(2) each public housing agency that administers 15
rental assistance under the Housing Choice Voucher 16
program under section 8(o) of the United States 17
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)), includ-18
ing the program under paragraph (13) of such sec-19
tion 8(o), to provide a copy of the uniform statement 20
developed pursuant to subsection (b) to each assisted 21
family or individual— 22
(A) together with the voucher for the as-23
sistance, at the time the voucher is issued for 24
the family or individual; and 25
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(B) together with any income verification 1
form, at the same time the form is provided to 2
the applicant or assisted family or individual; 3
and 4
(3) each owner of a dwelling unit assisted with 5
Federal rental assistance to provide a copy of the 6
uniform statement developed pursuant to subsection 7
(b) to provide to the lessee of the dwelling unit— 8
(A) together with the lease for such dwell-9
ing unit, at the same time the lease is signed 10
by the lessee; and 11
(B) together with any income verification 12
form, at the same time the form is provided to 13
the applicant or tenant. 14
(d) A
PPLICATIONS FOR RESIDENTIALMORTGAGE 15
L
OANS.—The Director shall require each creditor (within 16
the meaning of such term as used in section 1026.2(a)(17) 17
of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations) that receives an 18
application (within the meaning of such term as used in 19
section 1026.2(a)(3)(ii) of title 12, Code of Federal Regu-20
lations) to provide a copy of the uniform statement devel-21
oped pursuant to subsection (b) in written form to the 22
applicant for a residential mortgage loan not later than 23
5 business days after the date of the application. 24
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(e) FEDERALLYBACKEDMULTIFAMILYMORTGAGE 1
L
OANS.—The head of the Federal agency insuring, guar-2
anteeing, supplementing, or assisting a Federally backed 3
multifamily mortgage loan, or the Director of the Federal 4
Housing Finance Agency in the case of a Federally backed 5
multifamily mortgage loan that is purchased or securitized 6
by the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or the 7
Federal National Mortgage Association, shall require the 8
owner of the property securing the Federally backed multi-9
family mortgage loan to provide a copy of the uniform 10
statement developed pursuant to subsection (b) in written 11
form to each lessee of a dwelling unit assisted by that loan 12
at the time the lease is signed by the lessee. 13
(f) O
PTIONALCOMPLETION OF VOTERREGISTRA-14
TIONAPPLICATION.—Nothing in this section may be con-15
strued to require any individual to complete a voter reg-16
istration application. 17
(g) R
EGULATIONS.—The head of a Federal agency 18
administering a Federal rental assistance program, the 19
head of the Federal agency insuring, guaranteeing, 20
supplementing, or assisting a Federally backed multi-21
family mortgage loan, the Director of the Federal Housing 22
Finance Agency, and the Director may issue such regula-23
tions as may be necessary to carry out this section. 24
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