[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6250 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6250

  To revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and 
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act 
                                of 2006.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 12, 2008

   Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To revise the short title of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and 
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act 
                                of 2006.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    Section 1 of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and Coretta Scott 
King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 
(Public Law 109-246) is amended by striking ``and Coretta Scott King'' 
and inserting ``Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, 
William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia''.

SEC. 2. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

    Paragraphs (7) and (8) of section 4(a), and section 13(a)(1), of 
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973b(a), 1973k(a)(1)) are 
each amended by striking ``and Coretta Scott King'' and inserting 
``Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. 
Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia''.

SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION.

    Title I of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 1973 et seq.) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``Sec. 20.  A reference in this title to the effective date of the 
amendments made by, or the date of the enactment of, the Fannie Lou 
Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, Cesar E. Chavez, Barbara C. 
Jordan, William C. Velasquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights 
Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006 shall be considered to 
refer to, respectively, the effective date of the amendments made by, 
or the date of the enactment of, the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, and 
Coretta Scott King Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act 
of 2006.''.
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