I 117TH CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. R. 1278 To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 24, 2021 Mr. ALLRED (for himself, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. NORTON, Ms. SE- WELL, and Mr. FOSTER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on House Administration A BILL To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to establish minimum notification requirements for voters affected by polling place changes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Know Your Polling 4 Place Act’’. 5 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:56 Mar 21, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1278.IH H1278 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 1278 IH SEC. 2. MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR VOT- 1 ERS AFFECTED BY POLLING PLACE 2 CHANGES. 3 (a) REQUIREMENTS.—Section 302 of the Help Amer- 4 ica Vote Act of 2002 (52 U.S.C. 21082) is amended— 5 (1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub- 6 section (e); and 7 (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the fol- 8 lowing new subsection: 9 ‘‘(d) MINIMUM NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS FOR 10 VOTERS AFFECTED BY POLLING PLACE CHANGES.— 11 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If a State assigns an indi- 12 vidual who is a registered voter in a State to a poll- 13 ing place with respect to an election for Federal of- 14 fice which is not the same polling place to which the 15 individual was previously assigned with respect to 16 the most recent election for Federal office in the 17 State in which the individual was eligible to vote— 18 ‘‘(A) the State shall notify the individual of 19 the location of the polling place not later than 20 7 days before the date of the election; or 21 ‘‘(B) if the State makes such an assign- 22 ment fewer than 7 days before the date of the 23 election and the individual appears on the date 24 of the election at the polling place to which the 25 individual was previously assigned, the State 26 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:56 Mar 21, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H1278.IH H1278 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •HR 1278 IH shall make every reasonable effort to enable the 1 individual to vote on the date of the election. 2 ‘‘(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection shall 3 apply with respect to elections held on or after Janu- 4 ary 1, 2022.’’. 5 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 302(e) of 6 such Act (52 U.S.C. 21082(f)), as redesignated by sub- 7 section (a), is amended by striking ‘‘Each State’’ and in- 8 serting ‘‘Except as provided in subsection (d)(2), each 9 State’’. 10 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:56 Mar 21, 2021 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H1278.IH H1278 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS