[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 871 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 871

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

                           February 11, 2015

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 ``Formerly Incarcerated Voter 
Registration Act of 2015''.

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

    Section 4042(a)(E) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end 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 State, 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. For purposes of this clause, the term 
                        `State' includes the District of Columbia, the 
                        Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, 
                        Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, and the 
                        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
                        Islands.''.
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