[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4666 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4666

  To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to extend until November 
 2006 the deadline by which States which received payments under such 
  Act for the replacement of punch card or lever voting systems must 
               ensure that all such systems are replaced.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2006

Mr. Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Holden, Mr. Holt, Mr. 
Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. Platts, and Ms. Schwartz of Pennsylvania) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          House Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to extend until November 
 2006 the deadline by which States which received payments under such 
  Act for the replacement of punch card or lever voting systems must 
               ensure that all such systems are replaced.

    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 Machine Deadline Extension 
Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR REPLACEMENT OF PUNCH CARD AND LEVER 
              VOTING SYSTEMS.

    (a) Extension of Deadline.--Section 102(a)(3)(B) of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15302(a)(3)(B)) is amended by 
striking ``the first election for Federal office held after January 1, 
2006'' and inserting ``the regularly scheduled general election for 
Federal office held in November 2006''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect as if included in the enactment of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002.
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