[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1547 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1547

To nullify the effect of the recent Executive order that establishes an 
 ``election integrity'' commission, which will be used and is designed 
 to support policies that will suppress the vote in minority and poor 
                 communities across the United States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 2017

 Mr. Booker (for himself, Mr. Menendez, Ms. Harris, Ms. Cortez Masto, 
 Ms. Hirono, Ms. Duckworth, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. Markey, Mr. Reed, Mr. 
Franken, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Coons, Mr. Brown, Mr. Carper, Mrs. Murray, Mr. 
  Casey, Ms. Hassan, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Whitehouse, Ms. Klobuchar, Mr. 
     Murphy, Mrs. Feinstein, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Udall, Ms. Warren, Mr. 
  Blumenthal, Mr. Leahy, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Merkley, Mr. 
Schatz, and Ms. Cantwell) introduced the following bill; which was read 
    twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

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                                 A BILL


 
To nullify the effect of the recent Executive order that establishes an 
 ``election integrity'' commission, which will be used and is designed 
 to support policies that will suppress the vote in minority and poor 
                 communities across the United States.

    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 ``Anti-Voter Suppression Act''.

SEC. 2. NULLIFICATION.

    Executive Order 13799 (82 Fed. Reg. 22389; relating to 
``Establishment of Presidential Advisory Commission on Election 
Integrity'') shall have no force or effect.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUNDS.

    None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under an 
Act of Congress enacted before, on, or after the date of enactment of 
this Act may be made available for the commission established under the 
Executive order described in section 2 or for any similar commission 
established for the purpose of studying voter fraud.
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