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H.R. 2840: Automatic Voter Registration Act

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H.R. 2840: Automatic Voter Registration Act

115th Congress · introduced 2017-06-08 · Government Operations and Politics · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-06-08 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

What does this mean?

Official title

Automatic Voter Registration Act

Plain summary

Automatic Voter Registration Act This bill amends the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require state motor vehicle authorities, upon receiving certain identifying information with respect to an individual requesting motor vehicle authority services, to transmit the information to the state election official. The state election official shall then notify the individual that unless the individual declines to be registered to vote in federal elections in the state, the individual shall be automatically registered unless the individual does not meet voter registration eligibility requirements or is already registered to vote. A state may not use any identifying information regarding an individual's citizenship status for any purpose other than determining whether the individual is eligible to vote in federal elections.

Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.

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Official text

Automatic Voter Registration Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1] · 148 cosponsors

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Cosponsors on this site

Alma S. Adams (D-NC), Bill Foster (D-IL), Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (D-VA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Brendan F. Boyle (D-PA), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Hakeem S. Jeffries (D-NY), James P. McGovern (D-MA), Janice D. Schakowsky (D-IL), Jared Huffman (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mark Takano (D-CA), Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Pete Aguilar (D-CA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) and 88 more.

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr2840 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115