[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 12, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S3433]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 365. Ms. KLOBUCHAR (for herself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1790, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2020 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place in title V, insert the following:

     SEC. ____. STUDY ON TWO-WAY MILITARY BALLOT BARCODE TRACKING.

       (a) Study.--The Director of the Federal Voting Assistance 
     Program of the Department of Defense shall conduct a study on 
     the feasibility of a pilot program providing full ballot 
     tracking of overseas military absentee ballots through the 
     mail stream in a manner that is similar to the 2016 Military 
     Ballot Tracking Pilot Program conducted by the Federal Voting 
     Assistance Program.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Director of the Federal Voting 
     Assistance Program shall submit to Congress a report on the 
     results of the study conducted under subsection (a). Such 
     report shall include--
       (1) an estimate of the costs and requirements needed to 
     conduct the pilot program described in subsection (a);
       (2) a description of organizations that would provide 
     substantial support for such a pilot program; and
       (3) a time line for the phased implementation of the pilot 
     program to all military personnel actively serving overseas.
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