[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 174 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 174

 To amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to clarify certain aspects of 
 its coverage and to provide for the recovery of additional litigation 
                         expenses by litigants.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 5, 1993

  Mr. Edwards of California introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to clarify certain aspects of 
 its coverage and to provide for the recovery of additional litigation 
                         expenses by litigants.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Voting Rights Extension Act of 
1993''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF CERTAIN DEFINITIONS.

    Section 14(c) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(4) As used in section 5, the term `procedure with respect to 
voting' includes any change of procedural rules, voting practices, or 
transfers of decision making authority that affect the powers of an 
elected official or position.
    ``(5) As used in section 2, the term, ``standard, practice, or 
procedure'' includes any procedural rule, voting practice, or transfer 
of decision making authority that impairs the powers of an elected 
official or position.''.

SEC. 3. EXPERT EXPENSES.

    Section 14(e) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is amended by 
inserting ``, reasonable expert expenses, and other reasonable 
litigation expenses'' before ``as part of the costs''.

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