[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3688 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3688

To amend title 18, United States Code, to direct the Bureau of Prisons 
 to provide certain voting information to Federal prisoners upon their 
                          release from prison.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 10, 2013

Mr. Jeffries (for himself and Ms. Meng) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 18, United States Code, to direct the Bureau of Prisons 
 to provide certain voting information to Federal prisoners upon their 
                          release from prison.

    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 ``Ex-Offender Voter Registration Act 
of 2013''.

SEC. 2. PROVISION OF VOTING INFORMATION TO FEDERAL PRISONERS.

    Section 4042(a)(E) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
inserting after clause (vii) the following:
                            ``(viii) The laws and regulations governing 
                        the right of an individual convicted of a 
                        felony who has been released from prison to 
                        vote in each of the 50 States, and, for the 
                        State in which the prisoner will reside upon 
                        release, any voter registration or application 
                        forms that the prisoner will need to complete 
                        in order to vote.''.
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