[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2797 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2797

  To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
provide an exemption from certain requirements for States that provide 
                        sufficient time to vote.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 18, 2009

   Mr. Gregg introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act to 
provide an exemption from certain requirements for States that provide 
                        sufficient time to vote.

    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 ``Military Voter Compliant States Act 
of 2009''.

SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR STATES THAT PROVIDE 
              SUFFICIENT TIME TO VOTE.

    Section 102 of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1973ff-1), as amended by sections 579, 580, and 582 of 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(8)(A), by striking ``subsection (g)'' 
        and inserting ``subsections (g) and (j)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(j) Exemption for States That Provide Sufficient Time To Vote.--
            ``(1) In general.--
                    ``(A) Mandatory waiver.--In the case where the 
                chief State election official of a State submits to the 
                Presidential designee a certification that the State 
                meets the requirement described in subparagraph (B), 
                the Presidential designee shall grant a waiver to the 
                State of the application of subsection (a)(8)(A).
                    ``(B) Requirement described.--The requirement 
                described in this subparagraph is that, in the 
                regularly scheduled general election for Federal office 
                held in November 2008, less than 3 percent of all 
                absentee ballots received by the State from absent 
                uniformed services voters and overseas voters were not 
                counted in that election as a result of such ballots 
                not being received in time to be so counted.
            ``(2) Application of waiver.--A waiver granted under 
        paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to the regularly 
        scheduled general election for Federal office held in November 
        2010 and each succeeding election for Federal office.''.
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