3.0.0 3206 2022-02-08T23:14:34Z 2022-02-08T23:14:34Z Senate S 2020-01-16 116 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2020-01-16T16:24:22Z Accessible Voting Act of 2020 116 7755 HR 2020-07-23 Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. Identical bill CRS 2020-01-16 ssra00 Rules and Administration Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. IntroReferral 2020-01-16 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN 2020-01-16 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2020-01-16 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2020-01-28 False M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2020-01-28 False M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2020-01-28 False D000622 Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Tammy Duckworth D IL 2020-02-11 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2020-08-04 False M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2020-08-04 False V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2020-08-04 False B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2020-12-16 False S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2020-12-21 False Government Operations and Politics Age discrimination Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Disability and health-based discrimination Election Assistance Commission Elections, voting, political campaign regulation Executive agency funding and structure Federal officials Federal-Indian relations Government ethics and transparency, public corruption Government information and archives Government studies and investigations Intergovernmental relations State and local finance State and local government operations Voting rights Government Operations and Politics 00 2020-01-16 Introduced in Senate 2021-02-01T14:56:28Z Accessible Voting Act of 2020

This bill increases voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities and older individuals, including by establishing an office of accessibility within the Election Assistance Commission, requiring states to expand access to absentee registration procedures and no-excuse mail-in absentee voting in federal elections, and permanently reauthorizing and expanding a grant program for increasing accessibility to polling places.

]]> Accessible Voting Act of 2020 Display Title Accessible Voting Act of 2020 Short Title(s) as Introduced Accessible Voting Act of 2020 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to increase voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities and older individuals, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3206is/xml/BILLS-116s3206is.xml 2020-01-16 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.