[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 15, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4002-S4003]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4707. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2578, making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year

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ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:
       Sec. ___.  The Department of Justice shall--
       (1) instruct the Bureau of Prisons to take administrative 
     steps immediately to provide information to incarcerated 
     individuals regarding voting rights restoration upon release 
     and return to their home State;
       (2) instruct United States attorneys to provide notice to 
     defendants in Federal criminal cases regarding the loss of 
     their right to vote as a result of a plea agreement to any 
     disfranchising crime, whether misdemeanor or felony; and
       (3) not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, submit to Congress a report that includes findings 
     on the disproportionate impact of criminal disenfranchisement 
     laws on minority populations, including data on 
     disfranchisement rates by race and ethnicity.
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