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        S.3969

                    One Hundred Seventeenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and twenty two


                                 An Act


 
   To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to explicitly authorize 
 distribution of grant funds to the voting accessibility protection and 
advocacy system of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and 
    the system serving the American Indian consortium, and for other 
                                purposes.

    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 ``Protection and Advocacy for Voting 
Access Program Inclusion Act'' or the ``PAVA Program Inclusion Act''.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZING PAYMENTS TO VOTING ACCESSIBILITY PROTECTION AND 
ADVOCACY SYSTEMS SERVING THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA 
ISLANDS AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN CONSORTIUM.
    (a) Recipients Defined.--Section 291 of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21061) is amended--
        (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
        (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
    subsection:
    ``(c) Eligible Grant Recipients.--
        ``(1) Definition of state.--For the purposes of this section, 
    the term `State' shall have the meaning given such term in section 
    102 of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights 
    Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15002).
        ``(2) American indian consortium eligible.--A system serving 
    the American Indian consortium for which funds have been reserved 
    under section 509(c)(1)(B) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 
    U.S.C. 794e(c)(1)(B)) shall be eligible for payments under 
    subsection (a) in the same manner as a protection and advocacy 
    system of a State.''.
    (b) Grant Minimums for American Indian Consortium.--Section 291(b) 
of such Act (52 U.S.C. 21061(b)) is amended--
        (1) by inserting ``(c)(1)(B),'' after ``as set forth in 
    subsections''; and
        (2) by striking ``subsections (c)(3)(B) and (c)(4)(B) of that 
    section shall be not less than $70,000 and $35,000, respectively.'' 
    and inserting the following: ``subsection (c)(3)(B) shall not be 
    less than $70,000, and the amount of the grants to systems referred 
    to in subsections (c)(1)(B) and (c)(4) shall not be less than 
    $35,000.''.
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.
    The amendments made by section 2 shall take effect at the start of 
the first fiscal year starting after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.