3.0.0 2549 2026-03-31T16:37:00Z 2026-03-31T16:37:00Z Senate S S 2025-07-30 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2549 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-07-30T21:13:50Z Time Off to Vote Act 119 4908 HR 2025-08-05 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. Identical bill CRS 2025-07-30 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2025-07-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N B001277 Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Richard Blumenthal D CT 2025-07-30 True B001303 Sen. Blunt Rochester, Lisa [D-DE] Lisa Blunt Rochester D DE 2025-07-30 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2025-07-30 True C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2025-07-30 True D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2025-07-30 True G000574 Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ] Ruben Gallego D AZ 2025-07-30 True G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2025-07-30 True K000384 Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] Timothy Kaine D VA M. 2025-07-30 True M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2025-07-30 True P000145 Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Alex Padilla D CA 2025-07-30 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2025-07-30 True S001150 Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA] Adam Schiff D CA B. 2025-07-30 True V000128 Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Chris Van Hollen D MD 2025-07-30 True W000817 Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Elizabeth Warren D MA A. 2025-07-30 True W000800 Sen. Welch, Peter [D-VT] Peter Welch D VT 2025-07-30 True W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2025-07-30 True W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR 2025-07-30 True Government Operations and Politics Government Operations and Politics 2025-09-15T18:03:36Z 00 2025-07-30 Introduced in Senate 2026-03-31T16:36:55Z Time Off to Vote Act

This bill requires an employer, upon the request of an employee, to provide the employee with a minimum of two consecutive hours of paid leave while polls or sites that facilitate voting-related activity are open on the day of a federal election. This allotted time may be used to vote, return a mail-in ballot, or perform other voting-related activities.

The employer may determine the two-hour period, excluding any lunch break or other break.

Taking such leave shall not result in the employee losing accrued employment benefits.

The bill makes it unlawful for an employer to interfere with the right to take such leave or for an employer to discriminate against an employee for taking such leave. Further, the bill makes it unlawful for any employer to retaliate against an employee for (1) opposing any practice made unlawful by this bill; (2) filing a charge, or instituting or causing to be instituted any proceeding, under or related to this bill; or (3) testifying or preparing to testify in an inquiry or proceeding relating to such leave.

The bill specifies penalties for employers who violate these provisions.

]]> Time Off to Vote Act Display Title 45 Time Off to Vote Act 2025-08-09T03:38:24Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 Time Off to Vote Act 2025-08-09T03:38:21Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to provide employees with a minimum of 2 consecutive hours of paid leave in order to vote in Federal elections. 2025-08-09T03:33:26Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-07-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s2549is/xml/BILLS-119s2549is.xml 2025-07-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.